Brooklyn Elevated Equipment

This is the second edition of the Brooklyn El Book first published in 1987. This book concentrates on the beginning of the Elevated equipment from the Steam railroads to Coney Island, the New York and Brooklyn Bridge cable cars and the steam el s. How all that equipment became part of the formidable Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Here is a historical illustration of how transportation made the great transformation of a small Dutch farm land into a major metropolis possible. The herculean task of turning hundredths of steam coaches into electric motor cars and later their conversion from open platform El cars to fleets of multiple unit controlled closed door units. The thinking and craftsmanship of a pasted management that viewed every new problem as an an opportunity to develop equipment that meet the challenge.