List Of Streetcar Lines In Queens

	List Of Streetcar Lines In Queens The following streetcar lines once operated in Queens, New York City, United States. BMT The Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation concentrated on Brooklyn, but had some lines into Queens. Only the ones that significantly entered Queens are shown here; see list of streetcar lines in Brooklyn for the others (mainly into Ridgewood). Long Island Electric The Long Island Electric Railway operated lines in eastern Queens until 1926. These lines were later operated by Jamaica Central Railways, until the company reorganized as Jamaica Buses, with bus service replacing trolley service in 1933. Manhattan and Queens Traction The Manhattan and Queens Traction Company was originally part of the South Shore Traction Company based in Sayville, New York, which planned to build lines throughout Central and Western Suffolk, as well as Nassau and Queens County, before selling off its only lines to the Suffolk Traction Company, and moving to New York City. Before reorganizing itself as M& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Streetcar A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are called tramways or simply trams/streetcars. Many recently built tramways use the contemporary term light rail. The vehicles are called streetcars or trolleys (not to be confused with trolleybus) in North America and trams or tramcars elsewhere. The first two terms are often used interchangeably in the United States, with ''trolley'' being the preferred term in the eastern US and ''streetcar'' in the western US. ''Streetcar'' or ''tramway'' are preferred in Canada. In parts of the United States, internally powered buses made to resemble a streetcar are often referred to as "trolleys". To avoid further confusion with trolley buses, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) refers to them as "trolley-replica buses". In the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	East New York And Jamaica Railroad East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is the direction where the Sun rises: ''east'' comes from Middle English ''est'', from Old English ''ēast'', which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic ''aus-to-'' or ''austra-'' "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European aus- "to shine," or " dawn", cognate with Old High German ''ōstar'' "to the east", Latin ''aurora'' 'dawn', and Greek ''ēōs'' 'dawn, east'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin oriens 'east, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek ανατολή anatolé 'east' from ἀνατέλλω 'to rise' and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. ''Ēostre'', a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Grand Street And Newtown Railroad The Grand Street and Newtown Railroad was a street railway company in the U.S. state of New York. The company operated two lines - the Grand Street Line from Williamsburg Williamsburg may refer to: Places Colonial Williamsburg, a living-history museum and private foundation in Virginia Williamsburg, Brooklyn, neighborhood in New York City Williamsburg, former name of Kernville (former town), California Williams ... to Elmhurst and the Meeker Avenue Line from Williamsburg to West Maspeth. The company was chartered in 1859. The Brooklyn City Rail Road leased it on May 1, 1890. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Takes Possession of the New Lines, May 1, 1890, page 6 References Streetcar lines in Brooklyn Streetcar lines in Queens, New York Predecessors of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation Defunct New York (state) railroads 1859 establishments in New York (state) Railway companies established in 1859 Railway companies disestablished in 1890 {{US-rail-transpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]