Join us on Zoom for our first fall presentation. Please login about 5-10 minutes before the meeting so we can start on time. The meeting begins at 7:30 pm.

The presenter of our September meeting will be Russ Jackson. His all-video Zoom program will start with ‘First Generation Subway Cars’ and then Lackawanna, Pennsylvania Railroad, and Reading ‘First Generation MU Cars’ in service in the 1970s, all from digitized Super 8 sound films. All ERA members and friends anywhere in the world are invited to attend this exciting online event!

• The September meeting is on the fourth Friday of the month, not the third.

October 16: Carl Jackson
November 20: Gary Grahl

2021 Meetings

We will have 10 meetings in 2021 as usual, but with a major change! The January, March, May, September and November meetings will take place at the Roosevelt Hotel (unless the hotel is still closed). Our February, April, June, October, and December meetings will be held on Zoom. For the first time, all meetings will be recorded and posted here. We have found that Zoom meetings have had spectacular attendance and made it possible for our many non-New York City-area members spanning Australia, Japan, North America, the UK and Germany to participate!

Forthcoming Brooklyn El Book by Eric Oszustowicz

Barring any extraordinary circumstances, the first volume of this long-awaited multi-volume work is targeted for distribution to our paid-up members by the end of 2020. Volume 1 will represent Headlights for 2019 and 2020, though at over 400 pages it is equivalent to five typical annual Headlights issues! There are ultimately plans for three volumes, and each volume will be extensively illustrated with complete histories. Volume 1 covers the history of the BMT and its predecessors from 1864 to the 1940 takeover by the NYC Board of Transportation. Volume 2 will cover BMT post-1940 to 1969 and will include photographs of every former BMT elevated station in route order. Volume 3 will contain a plethora of high-quality color photographs from the 1950s and 1960s and a detailed roster for all equipment in existence from 1864 to 1969.

We’ve Made Donating Easier

ERA is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt corporation. Your donations are fully tax deductible and can be made using the new online Donation Form. Even with a streamlining program and dues adjustments, our expenses will exceed revenues by approximately $40,000 per year, making it difficult for the ERA to continue beyond the 2023 membership year. Please consider making a donation this year to help ERA continue its 86-year record of traction education and entertainment.

The Journal was published by the ERA from 1976 through 1978 during a hiatus in the publication of Headlights. Thanks to the massive efforts of Jeff Erlitz, we have added a complete three-year set of high-res PDFs available for viewing online or download.

1. 1978
2. 1977
3. 1976

Free PDFs of almost every Bulletin since 2002 are available for viewing online or download. In addition, we have added many full issues as far back as 1958! There are also covers from the current year, which we add to each month, and complete PDFs of these issues become available at the end of December. View Here