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IRT Ninth Avenue Line
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The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated, was the first elevated railway in New York City, first opened in 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, a cable-hauled line. The last section in use, over the Harlem River, was known as the Polo Grounds Shuttle, and was closed in 1958.
Contents
- 1 History
- 1.1 The West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway
- 2 Station listing
- 3 External links
- 4 References
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History
The West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway
The West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway was built by
Charles T. Harvey and ran from
July 1,
1868 to
1870. The line used multiple one-mile-long cable loops, driven by
steam engines in cellars of buildings adjacent to the track. Each loop was started when a car neared them and stopped when it had passed. The cables were equipped with collars that the car connected to with "claws". As the claws could not be "slipped" the car was jerked each time it moved to the next cable. The system proved cumbersome, broke down several times and eventually the company ran out of money and the system was abandoned. The new owners replaced the cable cars with
steam locomotives.
Station listing
