The above map covers the period between 1926 and 1940 when the steel elevated structure above Gravesend Avenue (McDonald Avenue) was already in operation. Notice the red circled sidings at Kings Highway which was at a coal silo and the sidings north of Avenue U. This later siding may be connected with the Gravesend Race Track. However, from an earlier drawing, the Brooklyn Jockey Club siding was at Avenue T. There is much to discuss here including the fact that this trackage was also served by the South Brooklyn Railway, which used electric trolley steeple locomotive to haul box cars for freight delivery to commercial customers along 37 Street and McDonald Avenue such as the coal company south of Kings Highway. See earlier posting regarding Kensington Junction which is at Ditmas Avenue and McDonald Avenue.
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