Elevated railroads
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Elevated railroad photographs
Photographs of elevated railroad services and structures, dating from the era of their construction to that of their retirement and demolition.
Harvey Mordetsky collection
Photographic prints showing trolleys in the New York metropolitan area, as operated by New York Railways and the Third Avenue Railway System in Manhattan and the Bronx, and various Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island trolleys lines, as well as slides and films of trolleys in other cities and countries, and related ephemera, including tickets, transfers, and publications.
Jay Street drawings and prints
The Jay Street drawings and prints contains technical and engineering drawings documenting the construction, rehabilitation, maintenance, and power infrastructure of New York City’s surface transit, elevated railroad, and subway facilities and services from the 1880s through the 1970s.
Lonto-Watson collection
The Lonto-Watson collection contains albums, scrapbooks, photographs, negatives, documents, ephemera, and books related to New York City transportation such as horse cars, cable cars, trolleys, elevated railroads, and subways, as well as transportation systems domestic and foreign, and New York City architecture.
Sprague library collection
Assorted drawings, maps, documents, photographs and signage created by or pertaining to the MTA, its predecessor agencies and various railroads, collected by or donated to members of the Electric Railroaders’ Association and stored in that association’s Frank Julian Sprague Memorial Library, located in Grand Central Terminal from the early 1980s until 2014.