This is not the first time they have tried to bring the trolley back
to the borough of Brooklyn.

A few years ago a guy in Red Hook bought some PCCS and even laid some track to run them on. This was going to be a heritage
operation to "improve" the neighborhood.

There was another try on 42sd street in Manhatten; it was supposed to use modern Light Rail equipment. I don't know just why that project died but maybe it was NIMBY types who seem to spring up everytime some one proposes to lay tracks. Even old tracks that used to be there.

Ted Miles

Well their website appears to be extremely active:
http://www.brooklynrail.net/brooklynrail_whats_new.html
And from the articles mentioned there does at least seem to be some velocity.

There are also photos of "phase II" construction that appear to be out of sync with what Google Earth shows:
http://www.brooklynrail.net/proj_phase2.html
http://maps.google.com/maps?source=eart ... 1,360,,0,5
So either their work has been undone, or Google hasn't caught up to it yet?

If this project can rise from the ashes of the earlier effort, the people responsible for its progress should receive the Order of the Phoenix (yes, I borrowed that from Harry Potter). My admittedly long-distance information was that some of the streetcars were scrapped. Perhaps John Smatlak would have more exact data on their fate. As an historic note, my favorite baseball team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, were once the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers, a term from the days when electric streetcar lines served all corners of the Borough.

Some of the publicly financed track in the street was torn up by the City. Most or all of the 3rd or 4th hand ex-Shaker Heights PCCs from Buffalo that had been stored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard vanished, probably to scrap. At least one was test run in Buffalo with a half pantograph

Looks like the end of the line for a steetcar in Red Hook.

Sloan

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bro ... y_sez.html