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Posted by Randyo on Sun Jan 23 15:21:35 2011, in response to Re: Q About LTV Squad and 76th Street, posted by G1Ravage on Fri Jan 21 17:40:53 2011. Actually, the wall at the end of track is concrete not cinderblock. The wall at the end of the tunnels for A7 and A8 yard leads is cinderblock however. According to some retired NYCTA employees who worked construction flagging in the area during the construction of Grant Av, before the concrete wall was put up, there was a temporary wooden wall. A map I have seen somewhere from 1950, indicates that while the "mainline" portion of the Pitkin Av subway was intended to have connected to the LIRR ROW in the area of Aqueduct in 1948, by the time of the 1950 map those plans had been abandoned and the connection we now know as Liberty Junction was shown. ERA Sprague Library has a contract book showing the connection from Grant as far as Hudson St and past the Hudson Interlocking, there is a note on the track map that indicates existing BMT signaling was to be used beyond that point. Of course once it was decided to build Liberty Jct, new signaling to accommodate the new interlocking became necessary. |
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