[PRCo] Re: Navigating___The___El

[Fred Schneider]

I'm not sure that it did generate a profit.   How do you maintain  
equipment in 1957 that was built in 1929 and keep it running  
reliably?   It was created as just one short portion of the Steinway  
or New York and Queens County lines into New York City.   After all  
the other lines were abandoned in the 1930s, that 1.6 miles remained  
because there was no way to put a bus stop on the Queensboro Bridge  
to serve the hospital facilitates on Welfare Island.  I know there is  
an aerial tramway to the Island today but I don't know if that was  
the only solution to the problem.   There may also be a bridge bus  
stop once the trolley was removed.

And, even if it did generate a profit, why would you want to run a  
trolley side-by-side with a bus line operated by the same company?    
That just dilutes the profits if there were any.

Queensboro Bridge Railway was a subsidiary of Queens Nassau Transit  
Company and somewhere I have a 35mm negative of a car and a bus side  
by side on the bridge.

On Jan 21, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> Why did they shutdown that Queensborough Bridge shuttle?
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> I was under the impression it generated a profit until the end.
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> K.
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>> Here's one for Fred  --  navigating a  "bus"  through El columns::
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>> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/QBRY%20%20601% 
>> 202nd%20AV%20TERM.jpg
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