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Re: 76 TH STATION BROOKLYN/QUEENS. |
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Posted by randyo on Sun Jul 29 17:30:44 2012, in response to Re: 76 TH STATION BROOKLYN/QUEENS., posted by Elkeeper on Sun Jul 29 12:46:36 2012. I will refrain from using capitals although I should shout this since I have explained it many times in threads on this subject. After unification was achieved in 1940, the plan from that time on was to BOTH connect the IND to the Fulton St El AND continue the subway down Pitkin Av and connect it to the Rockaway line from a portal below the LIRR ROW. The Euclid model board bears this out as the 1948 photo of it clearly shows the subway continuing to 76 St and the proposed Grant Av station. A contract book that I saw of the connection to the Fulton El states that beyond (RR south) of Hudson St interlocking existing BMT signaling was to be used indicating that there were no plans for what we now know as Liberty Jct. A plan dated in 1950 concerning new subways, however shows a connection from the Fulton El to the LIRR ROW at a point S/O Rockaway Blvd (Lib Jct) indicating that at some point between the time of the original plans in 1948 and 1950, something happened that caused the city to cease further construction down Pitkin Av and connect to the LIRR at the present location. Why the plans were changed seems to be as much of a mystery as the existence of the station shell itself but I heard somewhere which I can't recall that the contractors encountered some soil and water problems in the area past 76 St and that is why construction was halted. |
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