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Posted by Dyre Dan on Fri Nov 1 16:44:40 2013, in response to Re: 230TH/BAILEY AVENUE station.., posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Nov 1 14:48:10 2013. Yeah, I looked at pictures of it on Google maps and Streetview, and there surely is no trace of the el having turned east. Usually there are traces to be found when an el is sent in a new direction, like the very visible stub north of West Farms Square, or the odd-looking ironwork at Cypress Hills that was recently discussed. The absence of anything visible is what made me think the Bailey Ave. terminal was never actually built, and the total lack of any photographs of such a structure would seem to confirm it. The (1) does veer west of the centerline of Broadway at 230 St., requiring a long crossbeam extending out to a pillar on the NW corner, but that seems to be just to ease the curve that traffic on Broadway follows. I'm wondering if the filling in of Spuyten Duyvil Creek had something to do with the absence of any trace of this turn. Wikipedia says it wasn't filled in until 1914, and some sources say as late as 1917. Was a bridge that spanned the creek removed and replaced with a normal el structure, with the junction of the spur to the former Bailey Ave. terminal being on the section that was replaced? Or could it still be that reports of the 230 St./Bailey Ave. terminal really existing in the first place are simply mistaken? |
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