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A great collection of Photos Ben. I can recall riding the Culver line in the BMT days. We would ride the Jamaica line across the Williamsburg Bridge down to Chambers street. There you could change for the Culver Local which went via the Montague street Tunnel to DeKalb avenue ddown to 36 th and then switched off to reack the lower level of ninth ave and up on the el along McDonald Ave. At Chambers in the summer months, there was a Franklin Avenue Express service as well that went over the Bridge and travelled to Coney Island via the express tracks of the Sea Beach, again BMT standards like the Culver. I can also remember riding the NcDonald avenue PCCs which ran under the Culver El to the trolley terminal in Coney Island. Your photos show operations over a wide time period, including the gate cars from the 5th Ave El days , the Standards and the Low V's and SIRT cars used on the final shuttle operations.  

 

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