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passengers were conveyed, many of them standing. The lead car overturned on a sharp curve approaching the City Island Bridge, resulting in many injuries, some of them severe. There were reports that the driver was intoxicated; officials of the railroad denied that, but stated that he might have been guilty of reckless driving.
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also wrote to the commission, noting that the railway had been losing almost $ 18,000 (equivalent to $ 320,000 in 2023) per year and that he was opposed to continuing to run the railroad as a municipally owned service. Hylan suggested that the equipment be sold to "people who deal in second-hand
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Tunis blamed the accident on "cheaply built" roadbed; it was supported by loose dirt which was unable to support the weight of the car, causing the track to sink several inches. This resulted in a loss of contact with the upper rails on the third curve of the route. The accident was within sight of
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The car toppled over on its maiden voyage while rounding a curve with 100 passengers aboard, more than twice the normal capacity of 40 people. A number of passengers were injured, one seriously. Howard Tunis, who was operating the vehicle, received a broken rib, and his 6 year old daughter
Eugenia
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Beginning at or near Bartow
Station on the Harlem River and Portchester Railroad; then to along and through the street known as Third street to the highway known as the Shore road; thence along and across the said Shore road to the highway known as the City Island road; then through, along, and upon
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City Island residents had complained about the horse-drawn service, and one newspaper reported that "the cars were off the rails almost as much as they were on them". In
October 1908, application was made to the New York State Public Service Commission to change the motive power of the railroad from
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of 1907 impressed the management of the Pelham Park
Railroad, which sought permission for its own construction with support from his Monoroad Construction Company. The proposed cars were 50 feet (15 m) long by 6.5 feet (2.0 m) wide, with pointed ends. The plans called for a car which was
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Prior to the building of Bartow
Station, a stagecoach service operated by Robert Vickery ran between Mount Vernon and City Island. This ran until 1887. Another stagecoach service was operated by two brothers who ran a grocery store on the island; the stagecoach was used to make deliveries to local
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The monorail plans were prepared by
January 1909. The service between the Bartow station and Marshall's Corner opened for regular service in mid-July 1910 (variously reported as the 16th or 17th), although it unofficially began carrying passengers two days earlier. Service was provided by a single
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On April 8, 1889, an accident occurred. Several hundred passengers had taken the Harlem River Branch
Railroad to Bartow station, where they transferred to horse-drawn cars for the trip to City Island; six passenger cars were augmented by two horse-drawn flatbed freight cars, on which 50-60 of the
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November 14, 1910. The monorail was not a financial success and the IRT forced the companies into bankruptcy on December 4, 1911. The monorail on the line's western end and the narrow gauge horsecar line on the eastern end continued to
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Marshall's Corner on May 20, 1887. Five days later operations were extended across the bridge to City Island and along City Island Avenue to Brown's Hotel. By 1892 the line had reached Belden's Point, its final terminal. The length of the combined system was 3.2 miles (5.1 km).
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predicted that the cars would be capable of 80–100 miles per hour (130–160 km/h). The trip from Bartow
Station to City Island would take 3 to 5 minutes, compared to the 40 minute trip by the horse-drawn car.
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voted to grant a 25-year franchise on a vote of 25 to 3. The granting of the franchise did not necessarily entitle the railroad to operate the line later. New York City's mayor at the time,
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to permit abandonment, on the grounds of insufficient funds to continue operation; the PSC granted the permission. Operation ceased on August 9, 1919. On August 11, New York City mayor
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1473:"Getting There: Remembering trial and error on City Island's 'Flying Lady'"
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1044:"Subway Inspection Trip; Rapid Transit Commissioners View Progress Made"
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1530:"On This Day in 1910, New York's Monorail Suffered a Grievous Wreck"
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railroad scrap, who are commonly called junk dealers".
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On March 14, 1902 (two years before it began operating
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in 1910, unique in the country at the time, nicknamed
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1798:"The Pelham Park and City Island Railway, part 1"
1640:"New City Island Trolley Line Opened with Dinner"
687:. New York City. October 29, 1909. p. 11370.
596:In 1919, the Third Avenue Railway petitioned the
572:On July 9, 1914, the IRT sold the company to the
1956:Central Crosstown (17th & 18th Street Lines)
993:New York (State). Legislature. Assembly (1918).
1340:"First Monorail Street Road for City Islanders"
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322:In 1895, New York City annexed what is now the
2614:3 ft 6 in gauge railways in the United States
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1822:Forsyth's Compendium of Curious Contraptions
1802:Forsyth's Compendium of Curious Contraptions
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376:(IRT) took control of the two companies.
2043:Houston, West Street & Pavonia Ferry
2122:New York and Queens Transit Corporation
1759:Gill, John Freeman (January 28, 2022).
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2013:Brooklyn, Queens County & Suburban
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1133:. Albany, New York. 1909. p. 172.
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658:. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 41–45.
196:Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad
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555:Pelham Park and City Island Railroad
2162:Pelham Park and City Island Railway
2112:New York & North Shore Traction
2107:New York & Long Island Traction
719:American Street Railway Investments
172:Pelham Park and City Island Railway
22:Pelham Park and City Island Railway
2624:Defunct New York (state) railroads
2295:Connecticut Railway & Lighting
2117:New York and Queens County Railway
1986:Bleecker Street & Fulton Ferry
1708:"Mayor does not want losing lines"
1447:. Rooftop Publishing. p. 39.
598:New York Public Service Commission
374:Interborough Rapid Transit Company
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2300:Danbury and Bethel Street Railway
2023:Fort George & Eleventh Avenue
1220:Pollak, Michael (March 2, 2013).
1163:. McGraw-Hill. 1908. p. 973.
306:system. The line opened from the
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1528:Metcalfe, John (July 16, 2014).
1488:– via Google search cache.
736:Upham, Ben (November 12, 2000).
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2157:Peekskill Lighting and Railroad
2082:Manhattan & Queens Traction
1430:. London: Frederick Muller Ltd.
1346:. November 17, 1908. p. 10
771:"Injured by a Car Tipping Over"
436:An experimental operation of a
351:New York City Board of Aldermen
2634:Monorails in the United States
2201:Staten Island Traction Company
2102:New York & Harlem Railroad
1692:. State of New York. pp.
1671:. State of New York. pp.
1471:Cameron, Jim (July 26, 2020).
1372:. November 18, 1908. p. 4
1255:"City Island May Get Monorail"
1076:"To Extend City Island Road".
896:. November 28, 1897. p. 5
870:. November 30, 1897. p. 2
844:. November 21, 1895. p. 2
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2192:Staten Island Midland Railway
2177:Richmond Light & Railroad
1740:. August 11, 1919. p. 16
1444:The Bronx: In Bits and Pieces
1320:. November 7, 1908. p. 4
1314:"Argue on Merits of Monorail"
1080:. April 27, 1902. p. 9.
974:. December 8, 1897. p. 1
968:"Aldermen and Mayor Enjoined"
948:. December 2, 1897. p. 9
922:. December 1, 1897. p. 8
655:City Island and Orchard Beach
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2654:Railway lines closed in 1919
2228:West Farms & Westchester
2187:Staten Island Horse Railroad
2072:Long Island Traction Company
2067:Long Island Electric Railway
2033:Greenpoint and Williamsburgh
1714:. August 12, 1919. p. 3
1646:. August 19, 1914. p. 1
1620:. August 19, 1914. p. 6
1261:. October 1, 1908. p. 7
652:Scott, Catherine A. (2004).
521:In 1913, the IRT decided to
517:Conversion to standard gauge
339:Westchester County, New York
274:Pelham Park Railroad Company
98:Pelham Park Railroad Company
2589:Other New York City transit
2259:North Hudson County Railway
1748:– via Newspapers.com.
1722:– via Newspapers.com.
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2416:Brooklyn–Queens Waterfront
2137:Northport Traction Company
2008:Brooklyn & North River
1868:New York metropolitan area
1594:. July 10, 1914. p. 6
470:1964 New York World's Fair
2563:New York City Bus garages
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2305:Greenwich Tramway Company
2152:Ossining Electric Railway
2097:New York Railways Company
1366:"Monorail to City Island"
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2364:Hudson–Bergen Light Rail
2167:Putnam & Westchester
2092:Nassau Electric Railroad
2057:Jamaica Central Railways
2028:Grand Street and Newtown
1991:Bridge Operating Company
1738:The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
1689:Fourteenth Annual Report
1668:Thirteenth Annual Report
942:"The Mayor Will Veto It"
864:"A Trolley Grab Hearing"
714:Electric Railway Journal
623:Boynton Bicycle Railroad
567:Fifth Avenue Coach Lines
295:3 ft 6 in
155:3 ft 6 in
2573:Long Island Bus garages
890:"New Trolley Park Grab"
592:Bartow Station in 2022.
2142:Ocean Electric Railway
1937:Seventh Avenue Railway
1918:Second Avenue Railroad
777:New York Daily Tribune
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359:New York Supreme Court
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1966:34th Street Crosstown
1946:Ninth Avenues Railway
1928:Sixth Avenue Railroad
1427:More Unusual Railways
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2629:History of the Bronx
2437:HBLR Northern Branch
2285:Consolidated Railway
2233:Westchester Electric
2018:Danbury & Harlem
1923:Third Avenue Railway
1441:Bill Twomey (2007).
1424:John R. Day (1960).
1287:. October 21, 1908.
1181:. October 26, 1908.
633:1893 map of the area
628:1881 map of the area
574:Third Avenue Railway
513:operate until 1914.
442:Jamestown Exposition
370:New York City Subway
278:City Island Railroad
109:Third Avenue Railway
100:City Island Railroad
2387:Proposed operations
2290:Bridgeport Traction
2280:Connecticut Company
2077:Manhattan Bridge 3¢
2048:Huntington Railroad
1824:. February 27, 2019
1804:. February 19, 2019
1398:. January 4, 1909.
239:Horse drawn railway
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2350:Current operations
2238:Westchester Street
2147:Oscar City Railway
1765:The New York Times
1644:The Yonkers Herald
1592:The Yonkers Herald
1559:The New York Times
1507:The New York Times
1396:The New York Times
1285:The New York Times
1259:The Yonkers Herald
1226:The New York Times
1179:The New York Times
1104:The New York Times
1050:. April 27, 1902.
1048:The New York Times
1017:. April 20, 1911.
1015:The New York Times
841:The New York Times
804:The New York Times
742:The New York Times
602:John Francis Hylan
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1734:"Roads only junk"
1618:Yonkers Statesman
1561:. July 10, 1914.
1454:978-1-60008-062-3
1344:The Evening World
665:978-0-7385-3546-3
563:New York Railways
476:Operating history
355:William L. Strong
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