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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed May 9 19:49:32 2012, in response to Re: 76th Street Station Poll, posted by randyo on Wed May 9 18:24:55 2012. Story I got was from a switchman at Euclid who was about to hit the silk. He'd been there since the 1940's. Same story about S/B being nearly completely poured and some tile work started on the north end, N/B platform having about 1/3 of the pour done at the north end, bare trackway that far down, but about a ten car train length from the portal in on the northbound side, maybe 8 cars worth on the other tracks and the N/B track was occasionally used for long relays.Supposedly Pitkin used the tracks for storage of their worst dogs that weren't going to be moving anytime soon as well. And that the inner (express tracks) had ramps coming up that hit the same level as the local tracks just north of 76th, but no rails had ever been laid down that far back. Steelwork and concrete supposedly went "a couple of blocks" past 76th and ended in dirt." I was also told that the entire build was on a downgrade from just beyond the portal and it was extremely "wet" back there too and as it got to 76th, it was pretty deep down. I know nothing of the geography of the area, but I would have to imagine that there's a valley of some sorts past 76th given the description of the downgrade heading east. But that's what I heard back then. |
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