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Re: 76th St area - Satellite (Re: Q About LTV Squad and 76th Street) |
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Posted by tunnelrat on Tue Jan 25 19:04:10 2011, in response to Re: 76th St area - Satellite (Re: Q About LTV Squad and 76th Street), posted by tunnelrat on Tue Jan 25 18:44:32 2011. continued:I was not even thinking about 76st.when he blurted out that in 1978[not 1968 as the times article says]he&his partner,a former transit cop,who ironically worked out of dist.33 also[I didn`t know him]took him into pitkin yd.on a slow 4 to 12,got a set of keys from the yardmaster&took him to the cinder block wallwhich at the time had a structure door in it.going thru the door they walked a distance on ballast,no rails or phantom trains untill they reached the 76st.platform they walked the platform to the end,saying it was a framed out ind.station with blue tiles on the wall.,center entrance to the street sealed up,the other side was an incomplete station[city bound]the edge of the e/b platform was as far as they went,shining their flashlites down the hole towards queens the could not see the end of tunnel.the 4 track ROW was a typical type 2 subway tunnel,no tracks,roadbed,lites,etc.it does extend to the grant ave concrete wall.so much for the nay sayers who say there is no proff it exsists.I started my subway speulonking long before a lot of you were born to all the nay sayers I put forth this challenge,why don`t you post the extent of your exploring&research? i,among others would like to hear about this. |
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