Ok guys and gals I am trying to find some info on the trolly system that was run in the city of New Rochelle N.Y. I grew up in that area and remember seeing the tracks in the street peeking through but can’t find any information about the system ? I know that there was a track that ran down fort slocam rd that led to the ferry pier for davids island (believe it was called fort slocum back in the 40’s).
Try searching www.davesrailpix.com
Randy
The site was great but really didn’t have anything on the system i’m looking for. I think it would have still been in service during ww2 but don’t really know.
…Great site. Lot of pic’s from my home area of Johnstown, Pa. Johnstown Traction Co. Stopped running trolley’s in June 1960. I actually got to ride on the system many years ago…Probably in the late 40’s.
You should contact the New York Division of the Electric Railroaders Association and buy about three-years worth of back issues of their “New York Division Bulletin.” For the last 15 years each issue has had a review of one of the Third Avenue Railway / Third Avenue Transit System streetcar lines, starting in Manhattan and working north, with about the last three-years’ issues devoted to the Westchester Lines.
The last New Rochelle streetcar line was the “A” New Rochell - Subway line that ran between a reversing crossover under the 241st Street and White Plains Road elevated subway station (2 and 5 lines of the Subway System) to an around-the-block loop at the New Rochelle Subway Station. It and the Mount Vernon - 226th Street “B” line lasted until sometime in 1950. From 1936 on, the line was served by home-made lightweight cars, with four motors and dynamic brakes in additon to air-brakes, mostly rattan reversable (walk-over) seats. The A and B lines shared trackage all the way from the subway to downtown Mt. Vernon, where the B continued a short stretch to a formerly double-track terminal, reduced to single in 1931, at the east side of the Mt. Vernon (East) Railroad Station. There were other local lines this Mt. Vernon station, including lines to Tuckaho, but these were replaced by buses or just abandoned about 1931. Similarly, New Rochelle had its own local lines, but the last of them, to the seaside amusement park north and east of the city (forget the name, you can remind me) lasted until about 1934 or 1935, long enough so I remember seeing its tracks . (Pleasure Island perhaps?) In Pelham, there was the “H” crosstown line, lasted 'till about 1935, nd this was the line that inspired the Fontain Fox “Toonerville Trolley” cartoon strip. Indeed, for its last run the Third Avenue management invited Mr. Fox, and dressed up a lightweight single-truck Birney car running in Queens