New York Transit Museum#ThenAndNow: When Gun Hill Road station in the #Bronx opened in 1912 (the same year this #NYTMCollection photo was taken), it was not part of the #NYCsubway. Instead, it was a stop on the New York, Westchester and Boston Railway.
This #NYTMCollection photograph shows a steam locomotive pulling an LIRR train over a trestle at Broad Channel in Queens around 1914. In front, two swimmers can be seen going for a dip in Jamaica Bay.
Do you have a favorite rail system or car model?
This #NYTMCollection photograph from our Metro-North Collection shows a train of M2 Cosmopolitan railcars on the New Haven Line. Do you remember the M2s?
🚌 #SurfaceSunday: This circa 1977 #NYTMCollection postcard showcases the "New Look" Flxible Bus. Built in 1976, the bus shown, #7541, was one of the first so-called "Kneeling" buses in #NYC, introduced to make it easier for people with mobility issues to be able board. Do you remember these buses?
This 1968 #NYTMCollection photo shows passengers waiting for the IRT White Plains Road Line at 174 Street station in the #Bronx. Like many survey images in our Subway Construction Photograph Collection, it also captures an authentic slice of life (and fashion) from the time it was taken.
#TodayinHistory: #OnThisDay in 1924, the Ohio State Limited began service out of Grand Central Terminal.
The route travelled to Cincinnati via Buffalo and Cleveland. This postcard from the #NYTMCollection shows the Ohio State Limited in August of 1966 passing through Spuyten Duyvil in the #Bronx.
#ThenAndNow: This 1950 #NYTMCollection photo shows Nostrand Avenue at Fulton Street in #Brooklyn.
The tracks and overhead catenary of the Nostrand Avenue streetcar line are visible, as well as a GMC bus, and the entrance to the Nostrand Avenue station on IND Fulton Street Line (today’s A/C trains).
The remaining segment of the Fulton Street El is still used today by the A train.
These #NYTMCollection photographs show views of the Fulton Street El in the 1930s-50s.
#TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 1834, New York State officially chartered the Long Island Rail Road. 192 years later, the LIRR is the nation’s busiest commuter line and the oldest US railroad still operating under its original name. This archival video from the #NYTMCollection shows the LIRR in 1989.
🌎 Happy #EarthDay! These #NYTMCollection images show retired #Redbird subway cars being pushed into the Delaware Bay in 2001, as part of an artificial reef ecological project.
