September
1999 Before
stainless steel trains on a three-track elevated structure whisked riders
from Coney Island, across Brooklyn, across Manhattan and into the
Bronx... Well, maybe not exactly speeding... The Third Rail is a registered trademark of The Composing Stack Inc. Return to rapidtransit.net Home
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Before it was the '3' 'T', 'B' 'W' 'D' Train...
Before heavy steel subway trains carried derby-wearing
theater-goers to the Great White Way in Times Square...
Even before
wooden elevated cars swayed down the middle of New Utrecht Avenue, their
trolley poles raining sparks into the dusty street...
A man named
Gunther decided to make his fortune speeding patrons to the rural flats
south of the City of Brooklyn and the breezes of
Coney Island.
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