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Long Island Rail Road A comprehensive history Part 5 NYW&R NY&RB NY&LB NY&R BRT
The Long Island Rail Road Part 5 The New York, Woodhaven & Rockaway RR by Vincent F Seyfried A comprehensive history
New York Woodhaven & Rockaway
New York & Rockaway Beach
New York & Long Beach
New York & Rockaway
Brooklyn Rapid Transit operations to Rockaway Over LIRR
Copy 139 of 600
Hard Cover
184 pages
Copyright 1966
CONTENTS
I. ROCKAWAY BEACH1
II. THE NEW YORK, WOODHAVEN & ROCKAWAY R.R. 7
III. THE TRAGIC STORY OF THE BIG HOTEL23
IV. OPERATIONS ON THE NEW YORK, WOODHAVEN & ROCKAWAY R.R.36
V. THE NEW YORK AND ROCKAWAY BEACH R.R. 1887-189852
VI. THE BROOKLYN ELEVATED-LONG ISLAND R.R. JOINT SERVICE TO ROCKAWAY BEACH65
VII. THE BEGINNINGS OF ELECTRIFICATION-THE OCEAN ELECTRIC RAILWAY 1899-190483
VIII. THE THREAT TO LONG ISLAND R.R. CONTROL OF THE ROCKAWAY TRAFFIC-THE FLYNN CROSS-BAY ROAD98
IX. ELECTRIFICATION OF THE ROCKAWAY SERVICE 1905-1922112
X. THE BEGINNINGS OF LONG BEACH129
XI. THE LONG BEACH MARINE RAILWAY141
XII. THE NEW YORK & LONG BEACH R.R. 1880-1904 146
Roster of Equipment167
PREFACE
This fifth volume of the Long Island R.R. series presents the story of the New York, Woodhaven & Rockaway R.R. and its successor, the New York & Rockaway Beach Railway, plus the Brooklyn Rapid Transit operation over the Long Island R.R. to Rockaway Beach. All the surviving early newspapers have been combed for information not only about the cross-bay operation but also for the history of the big hotel, the first beach communities, the fishing stations, highway openings, etc. which affected the railroad and its patronage. Much of this material appears here in print for the first time and sheds much new light on the local history of Jamaica Bay and the Rockaways. The latter third of the book is given over to the New York & Long Beach R.R. and the development of Long Beach itself as a resort from 188o to 1904.
The author is once again indebted first and foremost to Mr. Felix Reifschneider for the unfailing moral and material support which he has extended for the ten years that this project has been under way; to Mr. Harold Fagerberg for equipment pictures; to Mr. Harold Goldsmith for the engine rosters; to Mr. Edward Watson for sundry illustrations; to Mr. Robert Friedrich of the Queensborough Public Library for suggesting and providing miscellaneous material; to Mr. Robert Presbrey for right-of-way views; to Mr. Ron Ziel for items from the Weber Collection; to Mr. Donald Harold for old tickets; and finally, to the Long Island Historical Society, without whose unique files of old Long Island newspapers this work would have been unthinkable.
Vol. VI will, hopefully, be devoted to "The Golden Age of the Long Island R.R.", 1881-1900.
Garden City, L.I. VINCENT F. SEYFRIED
July 1971
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