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Re: 76th Street Station - Revisited |
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Posted by HANDBRAKE on Wed May 9 19:07:28 2012, in response to Re: 76th Street Station Poll, posted by randyo on Wed May 9 18:24:55 2012. I have heard from NYCT veterans at work that A7 & A8 were once used as yard relays. Hence the home ball signals, and missing switch gear just short of the masonry blocked walls.A tunnel connection from Euclid on A1-4 tracks, I don't believe it. The bulkhead walls behind the all four bumper blocks, as well as the wide spaces between the express tracks that would have allowed A7 & A8 to drop down from the roof of the subway towards 76th Street all end in a finished concrete wall. I would find it believable if the rumor was that the US Army built a never used Air Defense missile complex at 76th Street disguised as an abandoned subway station. Similar to the 5th ADA Brigade HQ located inside the hill at Twin Lights in Highlands, NJ. My brother was a member of the 9th Regiment of NY Army National Guard in the 1950/60's, and assigned to the 244th ADA Battalion (Lido Beach). One of his accounts was that prior to the US Army deploying Nike missile batteries to protect New York City, the Army had 120mm Anti-Aircraft gun batteries that ringed the city. One such battery was located near, or at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. 76th Street may have been a stop on the way to the AAA gun emplacements or a munitions magazine!!! |
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