User:SPUI/Manhattan streetcar lines
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1897 map at http://www.davidrumsey.com/ has routes labeled on Brooklyn map (including lower Manhattan) but doesn't give names for the numbers. Here's what I could determine:
- 1 Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad
- 2 Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad
- 3 Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad
- 4 Central Park, North and East River Railroad
- 5 Central Park, North and East River Railroad
- 6 Second Avenue Railroad
- 7 Twenty-Third Street Railway
- 8 Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad
- 9 Twenty-Third Street Railway
- 11 Forty-Second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad
- 12 Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad
- 13 Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad
- 14 Ninth Avenue Railroad
- 15 Sixth Avenue Railroad
- 16 Sixth Avenue Railroad
- 17 Third Avenue Railroad
- 18 Third Avenue Railroad
- 20 Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad
- 23 Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad
- 24 Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad
- 25 Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad
- 26 Eighth Avenue Railroad
- 27 Eighth Avenue Railroad
- 28 New York and Harlem Railroad
- 30 New York and Harlem Railroad
1910 free transfers:
- 59th St only to 10th Ave
- 2nd Ave only to 23rd St
- 3rd Ave only to 42nd St & Grand St
- Transit Harmony, New York Times January 21, 1910
All companies
[edit]- Interurban Street Railway (changed name to New York City Railway 2-10-1904)
- Metropolitan Street Railway (leased by ISRy 4-1-1902) *
- Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad (consolidated into MSRy 12-1893) *
- Avenue C Street Railway (became HWS&PFRR 6-3-1874)
- Broadway and Seventh Avenue Railroad (leased by MSRy) (uses tracks of Broadway Surface Railroad and South Ferry Railroad) *
- South Ferry Railroad (consolidated into MSRy 12-1893) *
- Ninth Avenue Railroad (leased by MSRy, being operated by NYCRy receivers 7-31-1908, turned over to MSRy for operation) (Vesey St to 49th St, 3.50 mi) *
- Sixth Avenue Railroad (leased by MSRy, being operated by NYCRy receivers 7-31-1908, turned over to MSRy for operation) (Broadway and Vesey St to 49th St, 4.00 mi, opened 3.75 mi to 44th St 8-19-1852, 49th St 3-1856) *
- Twenty-Third Street Railway (leased by MSRy, being operated by NYCRy receivers 7-31-1908, turned over to MSRy for operation) *
- Bleecker Street and Fulton Ferry Railroad (leased by MSRy, being operated by NYCRy receivers 7-31-1908, turned over to MSRy for operation) *
- Broadway Surface Railroad (consolidated into MSRy 12-1893) *
- Second Avenue Railroad (leased by MSRy, turned over to receiver 11-13-1908) (became electric 4-3-1898 north of Astor Pl and Broadway) *
- Central Crosstown Railroad (stock ownership by MSRy 5-1897) (leased by MSRy 4-1-1904) *
- Christopher and Tenth Street Railroad (stock ownership by MSRy, leased by MSRy 4-1-1904, being operated by NYCRy receivers 7-31-1908, turned over to MSRy for operation) (also leased by 28th & 29th Sts Crosstown RR?) *
- Metropolitan Crosstown Railroad (consolidated into MSRy 5-18-1894) *
- Forty-Second Street and Grand Street Ferry Railroad (leased by MSRy, being operated by NYCRy receivers 7-31-1908, turned over to MSRy for operation) *
- Central Park, North and East River Railroad (leased by MSRy, had been leased by both MCRR and HWS&PFRR?, MSRy lease cancelled 10-5-1908) *
- Lexington Avenue and Pavonia Ferry Railroad (consolidated into MSRy 5-18-1894) *
- Columbus and Ninth Avenue Railroad (consolidated into MSRy 11-7-1895) *
- Eighth Avenue Railroad (leased by MSRy 1-1-1896, being operated by NYCRy receivers 7-31-1908, turned over to MSRy for operation) (Vesey St to 59th St, 4.89 mi, branch in Canal St, .2 mi) (operated in common with Sixth Avenue Railroad) *
- "Fourth Avenue Street Railway" (owned by New York and Harlem Railroad, leased by MSRy 7-1-1896, being operated by NYCRy receivers 7-31-1908, turned over to MSRy for operation, transferred to New York Railways Corporation 12-16-1932, shareholders voted to bustitute 2-19-1934) *
- Third Avenue Railroad (leased by MSRy 4-13-1900, nullified 10-1907, sold at foreclosure 3-1-1910, became Third Avenue Railway 4-22-1910) (Astor House to Harlem, 7.95 mi, built to 86th St 5.87 mi 1-1-1853?, extended 1859) (something weird going on with One-Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Street Railroad) *
- Third Avenue Bridge Company *
- Union Railway of New York (leased by MSRy 4-13-1900) (1.08 mi operated by New York Interborough Railway) *
- Yonkers Railroad (leased by MSRy 4-13-1900) *
- Westchester Electric Railroad (leased by MSRy 4-13-1900) *
- Mount Vernon and East Chester Railway (consolidated into WERR 6-1-1893) *
- New Rochelle Railway and Transit Company (consolidated into WERR 6-1-1893) *
- Southern Boulevard Railroad (leased by MSRy 4-13-1900) *
- Tarrytown, White Plains and Mamaroneck Railway (leased by MSRy 4-13-1900, sold at foreclosure 11-5-1909, 2.00 mi Mamaroneck to Larchmont was bought by Third Avenue RR as the Shore Line Railway) (name changed from New York, Elmsford and White Plains Railroad 5-18-1892) *
- Harlem Bridge, Morrisania and Fordham Railway (consolidated into URyoNY 7-2-1892) *
- North Third Avenue and Fleetwood Park Railway (consolidated into URyoNY 7-2-1892) *
- Melrose and West Morrisania Railway (consolidated into URyoNY 7-2-1892) *
- Bronx Traction Company (operated by URyoNY) *
- West Farms and Westchester Traction Company (consolidated into BTCo 5-12-1904) *
- Wakefield and Westchester Traction Company (consolidated into BTCo 5-12-1904) *
- Williamsbridge and Westchester Traction Company (consolidated into BTCo 5-12-1904) *
- Van Nest, West Farms and Westchester Traction Company (consolidated into BTCo 5-12-1904) *
- Suburban Traction Company (consolidated into BTCo 5-12-1904) *
- Forty-Second Street, Manhattanville and St. Nicholas Avenue Railway (leased by MSRy 4-13-1900) *
- Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battery Railroad (leased by MSRy 4-13-1900) *
- Kingsbridge Railroad (leased by MSRy 4-13-1900) *
- Fulton Street Railroad (stock ownership by MSRy, successor to North and East River Railway 10-29-1895) *
- Thirty-Fourth Street Crosstown Railway (stock ownership by MSRy, being operated by NYCRy receivers 7-31-1908, turned over to MSRy for operation) *
- Thirty-Fourth Street Railroad (consolidated into 34th St Crosstown Ry 3-18-1896) *
- Thirty-Fourth Street Ferry and Eleventh Avenue Railroad (consolidated into 34th St Crosstown Ry 3-18-1896) *
- Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth Streets Crosstown Railway (stock ownership by MSRy 9-1896, reorganization 1896 of Twenty-Eighth and Twenty-Ninth Streets Railway, put in hands of receiver 9-29-1908) *
- Houston, West Street and Pavonia Ferry Railroad (consolidated into MSRy 12-1893) *
- Metropolitan Street Railway (leased by ISRy 4-1-1902) *