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Here are a couple of photos of MP-41s, LIRR's first electric cars. They were around until the early 1950s.

 

 

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23-MP41 1006 and train past J tower-Jamaica-c.1913

 

 

The LIRR BRT connection was referred to as the Chestnut st connection. It was in East New York and you can still see  a few girders in the trackway on the BMT Jamaica line near Norwood Ave where this connection once came in. Here is the connection at the BRT

 

 

Chestnut St Connection-BMT_ c.1936

 

 

and here is the other end at the LIRR

 

 

Chestnut St Connx-at LIRR -Autumn Ave.- 1906

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  • Chestnut St Connection-BMT_ c.1936
  • Chestnut St Connx-at LIRR -Autumn Ave.- 1906

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