Reply to "IRT & BMT Open Platform EL Gate Cars (MORE pics)"

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Dave (DeeDon) and LIRR Steamer

THANKS BOTH for your appreciation of my photos -- and I enjoyed and totally comprehend your both deep feelings of nostalgia for the old Myrt jand the neighborhood similar to as I feel for it. Brooklyn was a great place then and old Myrt EL and its trains were a historic institution (like San Fran cable cars) -- but short sighted TA brass choose to destroy it for buses -- and thus for a slower and lumpy-bumpy ride on the traffic clogged avenue presently. As you both know, the entire area really deteriorated by the time the EL was torn down post 1970.

I have plenty of photos of the Myrt-Lex Grand Ave. Junction, and the unique OUISIDE PLATFORMS Grand Ave. station on the Myrt. Well, my photos cover the WHOLE line from Metropolitan to Park Row to the later (by 1944) Bridge-Jay Sts. terminals.

Here are some of my "Brooklyn " street level scenes on my EL & Trolley layout !

Regards - Joe F

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