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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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1888 STOCK CERTIFICATE FROM COLLECTION OF AND WITH THANKS TO JOHN M. SZABOL
| THE PROSPECT PARK AND SOUTH BROOKLYN RAILROAD WAS INCORPORATED JUNE 15, 1888 AND BECAME PART OF THE ROUTE BETWEEN GRAVESEND AVENUE AND UNION DEPOT AND LATER THE 39th STREET FERRY. IT WAS USED BY PROSPECT PARK & CONEY ISLAND AND LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD TRAINS. |
FROM A 1900 B.R.T. MAP
AN INTERLOCKING AND TOWER WERE INSTALLED.
A 1907 TRACK PLAN COURTESY OF PAUL MATUS
THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD'S JULY 1, 1903 C. R. 4 STILL LISTED
THE P. P. & S. B. ALTHOUGH SHOWN AS PART OF THE P. P. & C. I.
| IN 1919 THE P.P. & S.B. AND THE P.P. & C.I. FROM CONEY ISLAND TO KENSINGTON JUNCTION WERE ELEVATED, DOING AWAY WITH THE NEED FOR AN INTERLOCKING. THE TOWER THOUGH REMAINED UNTIL THE 1950'S. POSSIBLY SOUTH BROOKLYN RAILWAY FREIGHT CREWS ENTERED THE TOWER TO LINE THE ROUTE TO AND FROM THE P.P. & S.B. TRACKS. |
THIS IS A 1935 PHOTOGRAPH
IN 1953 THE SWITCHES WERE HAND THROWN AND HAD COLOR LIGHT TARGET SIGNALS
BY 1907 A BRANCH OF THE STREET CAR TRACKS HAD BEEN BUILT ALONG SIXTEENTH AVENUE
TO SIXTY-THIRD STREET. BY 1946 THE BRANCH WAS GONE AND A LOOP HAD BEEN INSTALLED.
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ON JUNE 29, 1953 BILL SLADE PHOTOGRAPHED PCC NUMBER 1079 ENTERING THE LOOP. IN THE FOREGROUND IS THE LOOP TRACK |
IN 1950 BILL SLADE PHOTOGRAPHED CAR 6150 AND 1N OCTOBER 1956 THE 1031 ON THE LOOP.
THE CULVER SHUTTLE
AN IND CONEY ISLAND EXPRESS
KENSINGTON JUNCTION IN 1984
