I remember Bob Diamond and the Atlantic Avenue tunnel because of this:



A train that not been touched since 1848, complete with all the tooling marks, some paint at least, and details, would be quite a find.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/52809 ... Ov27OXF-NY

Unfortunately, from personal experience, I can understand why the City revoked Mr. Diamond's contract to access the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel.

I had brief involvement from the NYCDOT side some 20 years ago, when Mr. Diamond was trying to get his historic trolley operation at Red Hook, Brooklyn, off the ground. My interactions with Mr. Diamond left me with the impression that he didn't play well with others. I have not worked or lived in Noo Yawk since 2005 and my memories have dimmed with time.

In an 2016 article from Brooklyn Paper https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/3 ... 12-bk.html it says:

"Diamond’s dream was originally city-sanctioned, and he lay some tracks in Red Hook and purchased several vintage streetcars to ride them, only for the city to cut off funding in 1999."
The 2016 Brooklyn Paper article makes it sound as if the City was dusting off the Red Hook Trolley proposal but I can't find many recent updates. One article https://boston.curbed.com/2017/6/21/158 ... yn-trolley describes one of Mr. Diamond's ex-MBTA cars and a repeat just came out https://untappedcities.com/2019/10/15/t ... reen-line/

in the 1990s, there was a car from Oslo, Norway dating to 1897 located at Red Hook. What happened to it?

I believe the Oslo car went to the Trolley Museum Of New York.

I think Bob's a visionary who's not great with physical resources. He's not good magisterially, and that led to the city cutting up most of his fleet. He'd probably do better working with an organization where someone else makes the deals and checks the books.

You're right. http://tmny.org/tmny0003.html