BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT CAR 4573

Melgar....glad you enjoyed the trip....been there many times...thanks for the pics...joe

MELGAR;

Great photos, thanks for sharing. Looks like they have done an amazing job restoring the 4573. The info on the museum website points out that the Brooklyn Dodgers used to ride the BRT to their games at Ebbets Field - that helps explain how the team got their name - the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers. From your pics, it looks like the 4573 was one of the cars that went over the Brooklyn Bridge to Park Row in lower Manhattan. I wish they still ran over the bridge in my lifetime.

I found this pic on the web showing a different BRT car outside Ebbets, heading to Park Row.

Paul,

Thanks for the great picture of Ebbets Field and the trolley. My father used to take me to Brooklyn "Trolley Dodger" baseball games at Ebbets Field in the 1950s and I clearly remember that corner outside the ballpark. By the times I was there, the trolleys had been replaced by green Mack trolley-buses which also ran "under the wire" but not on the rails.

MELGAR

MELGAR;

I was actually in Ebbets Field for part of the last game the Dodgers played there in September of ‘57... I was about two and a half and being pushed around in a stroller. My mother, a big Dodger fan (from who I got my love of trains) didn’t have a ticket, but she went anyway just to be there and they were letting people in for free. Didn’t see much from my vantage point, but I remember the feeling of sadness. Somewhere, I still have a souvenir from that day  - a mechanical pencil shaped like a bat, only in those days, the bat was made from wood. My mother never forgave Walter O’Malley!!!

Paul,

I've still not gotten over the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn. I was introduced to O'Malley during a night game at Ebbets Field. The Giants clinched the pennant against the Dodgers that night.

MELGAR