Talk:Long Island Electric Railway
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I'm taking notes here before I write the article. --NE2 00:04, 12 January 2007 (UTC) They had to purchase the Jamaica and Far Rockaway Turnpike to run to Far Rockaway. (details of this and other obstacles in 7/10/1896 page 8)
- July 24, 1896: opened Crescent Street (surface) to Jamaica (7/23/1896 page 4)
- April 25, 1897: incline to BMT Fulton Street Line at Crescent Street (transfer) completed; open to Jamaica (4/26/1897 page 1)
- May 2, 1897: Jamaica (at 168th Street) to Queens Village opened; not yet connected over BHRR (5/4/1897 page 1)
- night of May 15, 1897: temporary switch installed at 160th Street and Jamaica Avenue (Brooklyn Heights Railroad Jamaica Line); through route open from city line to Queens Village and open south from Jamaica to "Dooley's, near Three Mile Creek and Jamaica Bay and to Springfield [Gardens]" (5/17/1897 page 4)
- June 6, 1897: opened to Far Rockaway (6/7/1897 page 4)
- November 1897: switching from 105th Avenue and 148th Street to South Road and Waltham Street (I don't fully understand this) (11/19/1897 page 5)
- December 1897: allowed to use Brooklyn Heights Railroad on Jamaica Avenue between 160th Street and 168th Street (12/11/1897 page 4; also 4/11/1897 page 31 for agreement with the BHRR)
- July 1899: plans to consolidate LIE with proposed Cross Country Railroad (Flushing to Jamaica) and New York and North Shore Railroad (under construction Flushing to Jamaica) (7/25/1899 page 6)
- early November 1899: New York and North Shore Railroad open, Flushing to Highland Avenue and 164th Street, Jamaica (10/26/1899 page 7)
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