Buy this book on-line Fausser, William : THE BROOKLYN AND ROCKAWAY BEACH RAILROAD: THE CANARSIE RAILROADMineola, NY: [The Author], 1976
1st edition. Original illustrated wrappers. 8vo. 64 pages, 28 cm. In English. Before becoming the modern L subway line, the the Canarsie Line operated as a steam dummy line. It was first owned by the Brooklyn and Rockaway Beach Railroad, chartered December 24, 1863 and opened October 21, 1865, from the Long Island Rail Road in East New York to a pier at Canarsie Landing, very close to the current junction of Rockaway Parkway and the Belt Parkway, where ferries continued on to Rockaway. The line was single-tracked until 1894. The Canarsie Railroad was chartered on May 8, 1906 as a BRT subsidiary (leased to the Brooklyn Union Elevated Railroad) and acquired the line on May 31, 1906 (Wikipedia, 2018). SUBJECTS: Railroads - New York. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide (OCLC:3584277). Very good condition. (AMR-54-64) Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Fausser, William : THE BROOKLYN AND ROCKAWAY BEACH RAILROAD: THE CANARSIE RAILROAD. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, livres anciens, out-of-print books, first editions and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |