|
|
| Re: Which is More Likely to Happen? (1155137) | |||
 |
|||
| Home > SubChat | |||
|
[ Read Responses | Post a New Response | Return to the Index ] |
|
||
|
Re: Which is More Likely to Happen? |
|
|
Posted by randyo on Mon May 7 16:04:08 2012, in response to Re: Which is More Likely to Happen?, posted by Mitch45 on Mon May 7 15:34:39 2012. As I have mentioned before in many posts, when George Abere and I went to the end of A7 and A8 in 1962, there were no cinderblock walls, just mounds of earth that extended from the floor to the roof of the tunnels possibly indicating that the tunnels go farther but were backfilled at some point. The rails were also in place but the switches to A5 and A6 had been removed and the home signals and stop arms protecting those switches were still functional. If I remember correctly, the rails didn't end in bumping blocks but continued under the earth. When we returned in 1983 the cinderblock walls had been erected, one for each track since there were actually 2 separate tunnels at that point. The rails and stop arms had been removed and the signals were still in place but with the lenses missing. The question now comes in as to whether or not similar backfilling was done under Pitkin Av as well and also how much back filling of the yard leads was actually done. That backfilling may actually have been done from the street level since 2 small mounds in the median of Conduit Blvd at what were supposed to be the ends of A7 and A8 were pointed out to me in 1959. I haven't been to the street level in that area in quite a few years so I don't know if those two small mounds are still there or whether they have been removed and the medians leveled off. |
|
(There are no responses to this message.)
|
|