Talk:Atlantic Avenue Railroad

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There is a (partial?) list of lines in Brooklyn Daily Eagle 3/4/1886 page 4:

• Adams and Boerum Place Line to Prospect Park and Greenwood
• Bergen Street Line, "South Ferry through Atlantic Avenue to Albany Avenue, returning to Hamilton Ferry, to Fulton Street and the ferry"
• Butler Street Line, "Fulton Ferry to Adams Street, past the bridge to Boerum Place, to Atlantic Avenue, to Butler Street and Nostrand Avenue"
• Crosstown Line, Fulton Street, Front Street, Adams Street, Boerum Place, Bergen Street, Sackett Street to Hamilton Avenue
• Greenwood and Coney Island Line, Furman Street, Atlantic Avenue, 5th Avenue to Greenwood
• Vanderbilt Avenue Line, Fulton Ferry through Furman Street, Atlantic Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, 9th Avenue to Greenwood
• Seventh Avenue Line, Fulton Ferry to Front Street, Adams Street, Boerum Place, Atlantic Avenue, 5th Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, and 7th Avenue to Greenwood

And in Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1/8/1888 page 2:

• Atlantic Avenue Line
• Adams Street and Boerum Place Line
• Butler Street Line
• Greenwood Line
• Prospect Park Line
• Seventh Avenue Line

And in 1/27/1889 page 15 (referring to 1873?):

• Atlantic Avenue Line
• Adams Street and Boerum Place Line to Prospect Park, Coney Island, and Greenwood
• Butler Street Line
• Greenwood and Coney Island Line, Furman Street, Atlantic Avenue, and 5th Avenue, connecting with Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad at 27th Street
• Prospect Park Line, Furman Street, Atlantic Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, and Prospect Park West, connecting with Coney Island steam at 20th Street
• Seventh Avenue Line, Adams Street Line to Flatbush Avenue and 7th Avenue to Greenwood at 29th Street (huh)? - connected with Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad at 20th Street

--NE2 17:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Burying of line under Atlantic Avenue

For several decades the line ran on the surface of the street of Atlantic Avenue.

The majority of the length of the line was buried under Atlantic Avenue. When was the line buried under the Avenue??? Dogru144 05:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Part of http://arrts-arrchives.com/custom2.html suggests that part of the line was put under, in a tunnel, as late as the early 1940s. Dogru144 05:09, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

That was the Atlantic Branch, technically owned by the Atlantic Avenue Railroad (and its successors) but leased to the LIRR since 1877. It was grade separated west of East New York ca. 1904 and east of East New York ca. 1940; in between there was an elevated section east of East New York, including a station at Warwick Street.

I need to rewrite this article; when I wrote it I hadn't done nearly the studying I've done since. --NE2 06:23, 18 March 2007 (UTC)