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</table> <table align="center" bgcolor="#efefef" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" cool="" gridx="16" gridy="16" height="2247" showgridx="" showgridy="" usegridx="" usegridy="" width="610"> <tbody> <tr height="50"> <td align="left" colspan="11" height="50" valign="top" width="610" xpos="0"><img border="0" height="36" src="images/contents.gif" width="610" /></td> </tr> <tr height="1"> <td height="2068" rowspan="8" width="16"><spacer height="2068" type="block" width="16"></spacer></td> <td height="49" rowspan="2" width="1"><spacer height="49" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> <td align="left" colspan="2" height="49" rowspan="2" valign="top" width="274" xpos="17"><a href="http://thethirdrail.net/index.html"><img border="0" height="49" src="images/contents_trhed.gif" width="272" /></a></td> <td height="1956" rowspan="7" width="29"><spacer height="1956" type="block" width="29"></spacer></td> <td height="49" rowspan="2" width="1"><spacer height="49" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> <td colspan="2" height="1" width="272"><spacer height="1" type="block" width="272"></spacer></td> <td height="1956" rowspan="7" width="4"><spacer height="1956" type="block" width="4"></spacer></td> <td height="2068" rowspan="8" width="12"><spacer height="2068" type="block" width="12"></spacer></td> <td height="1" width="1"><spacer height="1" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> </tr> <tr height="48"> <td align="left" colspan="2" height="48" valign="top" width="272" xpos="321"><img border="0" height="35" src="images/contents_rtn.gif" width="272" /></td> <td height="48" width="1"><spacer height="48" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> </tr> <tr height="628"> <td align="left" colspan="3" content="" csheight="1801" height="1907" rowspan="5" valign="top" width="275" xpos="16"> May 2003 *The New BMT Coney Island Terminal.. After 80 years of service, the huge Stillwell Avenue terminal in Coney Island, host to four rapid transit main lines, is being replaced. This article traces the terminal's history, and illustrates its startling new look by Paul Matus January 2003 The Interborough Strike of 1919. The Brotherhood of Interborough Rapid Transit Employees, launched an amazing 100% percent effective strike against the entire IRT rapid transit system. The story in xontemporary news accounts, researched, compiled and written by Gregory J. Christiano <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0301/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> January 2002 Staten Island Rapid Transit, The Essential History. The rural rapid transit line that was Commodore Vanderbilt's first railroad venture by Irvin Matus and Paul Matus <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0201/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Acknowledgement <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt17.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a>, Book Notes and Links <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0201/sirt18.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> July 2001 Fallen Transit: New York's Second Avenue el was torn down amid political pressure during WWII, leaving a hole in East Side transit service ever since, by Alexander N. Cohen <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0107/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> April 2001 History of the Long Island Rail Road to 1925 Part II. The nation's largest commuter railroad is also its oldest Class I railroad, by Felix Reifschneider <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0104/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Winter 2001 History of the Long Island Rail Road to 1925 Part I, by Felix Reifschneider <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0103/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Autumn 2000 The Road to the Transit Museum: the Lines, the equipment, the 1965 New York World's Fair and the genesis of the Transit Museum by Irvin Matus and Paul Matus <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0011/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> July 2000 25 Years Ago in The Third Rail, Cover <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> State of the Art Car Visits New York, by IIrvin Leigh Matus <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/soac1.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> The First National Light Rail Conference, by James Seamon <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/lrt1.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Politics and History of the Transit Fare as the fare rises against the background of New York's Fiscal Crisis in 1975, by Paul Matus <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/fares1.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> The BMT Culver Shuttle Closes, by Paul Matus <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/culver.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Lght Rail Plans in Dayton Ohio Stymied, by Paul Matus <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0007/dayton.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> May 2000 Our Spring Number, Special Spring Cover <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0005/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> and Poem <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0005/toc.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> When National City Lines Came to Philadelphia: Three Critical Years for one of Americas's Largest Traction Systems, by S.L. Hackbridge <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0005/phil1.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> What Is It? A Mystery Bus from the Archives, by Paul Matus <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0005/mystery.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> March 2000 The Third Century: Rebuilt Again, Brooklyn's Historic Franklin Avenue Shuttle Reopens, by Douglas Diamond <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0003/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> January 2000 Back to the Future. Since municipal ownership, New York has had one of the most conservative transit managements in the U.S., but it once had one of the most aggressive and advanced in Brooklyn's BMT, by Paul Matus <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/0001/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> December 1999 The Little Station in the Woods. It began life as a real estate office deep in the woods of Flatbush. Now it is one of the New York's oldest original subway stations, by Paul Matus <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/9912/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> September 1999 Before it Was the "W". The West End Line began life as the first little steam road to reach Coney Island. This is a story of its early days, by Morton Morris <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/9909/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> May 1999 American Ground Transport. Remembering U.S. vs. National City Lines, highlighting the role of highway-based businesses in the rapid decline of the U.S. street railway industry. <a href="http://thethirdrail.net/9905/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> </td> <td align="left" colspan="2" content="" csheight="620" height="628" valign="top" width="272" xpos="320"> Brooklyn Grade Crossing Commission The Brooklyn Grade Crossing Elimination Commission was created by the New York State legislature on May 9, 1903 to accompish the goal of providing fully grade separated rights-of-way for the BRT's Brighton Beach Line and the Bay Ridge and Manhattan Beach lines of the LIRR. by Bob Diamond <a href="gcbook/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Photo Gallery <a href="gcbook/raw/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Maps <a href="gcbook/images/mindex.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> BRT Excursion Train to Rockaway This was the "mystery photo" for August 2000. Includes some hints of sleuthing the location of old photographs. Bill Mangahas figured out the photo's secret first. <a href="0008/mystery.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Miscellaneous The Sea Beach Line has two, usually unused, express tracks--with no stations? Why? <a href="faq/nyc/seabeach.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> The New York Subway is run by MTA New York City Transit, or is it? <a href="faq/nyc/agencynames.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> The Atlantic Avenue (Cobble Hill) Tunnel in Brooklyn now sees only the ghosts of antique steam engines. <a href="faq/nyc/AtlanticTunnel.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> </td> <td height="1036" rowspan="3" width="1"><spacer height="1036" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> <td height="628" width="1"><spacer height="628" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> </tr> <tr height="42"> <td align="left" colspan="2" height="42" valign="top" width="272" xpos="320"><a href="http://www.urbanography.com/"><img border="0" height="35" src="images/contents_urb.gif" width="272" /></a></td> <td height="42" width="1"><spacer height="42" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> </tr> <tr height="366"> <td colspan="2" content="" csheight="342" cslocked="" height="366" valign="top" width="272" xpos="320"> A turbulent year in New York, and national history, described in analysis and contemporary articles by Gregory J. Chrisiano. Introduction <a href="http://www.urbanography.com/1857/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Part One The Police Riots <a href="http://www.urbanography.com/1857/police2.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Part Two The Gang Riots <a href="http://urbanography.com/1857/gangs1.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Where "the Gangs" Lived Historical articles describing New York's Five Points neighborhoodin the mid-19th century, real home of the gangs described in the movie Gangs of New York, compiled and written by Gregory J. Christiano. <a href="http://www.urbanography.com/5_points/index.html"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Vitagraph Company in Brooklyn Illustrated history of one of the pioneers of motion pictures by Irvin Leigh Matus <a href="http://www.urbanography.com/urban/0006/index.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> </td> <td height="366" width="1"><spacer height="366" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> </tr> <tr height="51"> <td height="871" rowspan="2" width="1"><spacer height="871" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> <td align="left" colspan="2" height="51" valign="top" width="272" xpos="321"><a href="http://www.bookreview.net/"><img border="0" height="42" src="images/contents_brnhed.gif" width="272" /></a></td> <td height="51" width="1"><spacer height="51" type="block" width="1"></spacer></td> </tr> <tr height="820"> <td align="left" colspan="2" content="" csheight="536" height="820" valign="top" width="272" xpos="321"> The Malbone Street Wreck  by Brian J. Cudahy. Reviewer: Paul Matus On November 1, 1918, a five car wood-bodied elevated train of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. smashed into the wall of a recently opened tunnel, killing about 100 people. <a href="book/reviews/malbone.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> A Few Historical Errors in Cudahy's The Malbone Street Wreck, by Alan D. Glick <a href="book/reviews/malbone_err.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Capsule Review, by C.K. Leverett <a href="book/reviews/malbone_cap.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> 722 Miles by Clifton Hood. Reviewer: Paul Matus A political history of the transit system in one of the nation's most political cities, with focus on the building of the first subway. <a href="http://rapidtransit.net/book/reviews/722.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> Tracks of the New York City Subway by Peter Dougherty. Reviewer: Paul Matus. Where does that track go? A detailed and fascinating study of the trackage of the vast New York City subway system. <a href="book/reviews/tracksny.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> The Underground Guide to New York City Subways by David Frattini. Reviewer Kevin Walsh. <a href="http://book/reviews/frat_cap.htm"><img border="0" height="10" src="images/btn_view.gif" width="30" /></a> </td> </tr> <tr height="112"> <td align="left" colspan="6" content="" csheight="112" height="112" valign="top" width="576" xpos="21"> The Third Rail Online is edited by <a href="mailto:paul@rapidtransit.com">Paul Matus</a>. General inquiries may be sent to <a href="mailto:info@rapidtransit.net">info@rapidtransit.net</a> rapidtransit.net is a service mark andThe Third Rail a registered trademark of The Composing Stack Inc. Everything on this site is copyright 1999-2002 by The Composing Stack Inc., except as otherwise noted. Materials with other copyrights are used by permission. 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