Hi Bob
greats photos. The first shot has the 7th ave car in the original as delivered colors. The BMT El trains still crossed the bridge at this time so the cars shared the roadway with the trolleys.Check out that Packard in the photo. In your second photo, the BMT El is gone, the PCC is in Board of Transportation colors and its probably near the end of operations.
Heres a few more:
This is a Vanderbilt car on the old BMT EL trackways on the way to Brooklyn.
a 7th ave car waiting at the Manhattan end at Park row. The 7th ave line was the last Trolley to operate over the Brooklyn Bridge in 1950.
Probably a seventh ave and a Vanderbilt car at Park Row. The car in the Backround is a 6000 series Flushing ave car. If you look just above the car in the foreground, just left of the pole, you can make out the Trainshed for the third ave el Park Row spur.
Leaving Manhattan . Great view of Downtown manhattan.
Looks like a seventh ave and a Vanderbilt car arriving in Brooklyn near Tillary Street. There was a third line which was equipped with PCCs and operated over the Brooklyn Bridge. It was the Erie Basin car. Two additional non PCC lines also operated over the Brooklyn Bridge, the Graham ave car and the Dekalb ave car. These lines used the 6000 series and Peter Witts. When the BMT El was in service , The Great Sands Street depot was about at this spot and the Trolleys went up a ramp and into a train shed with the El Trains.All of the Brooklyn Els with the exception of the Broadway line operated into Sands Street. It was a three level complex with loops and through tracks. It was torn down in 1944 with the El Service over the bridge.
