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Re: Archer Avenue Subway - 25th Anniversary |
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Posted by renee gil on Thu Dec 12 20:19:25 2013, in response to Re: Archer Avenue Subway - 25th Anniversary, posted by William A. Padron on Thu Dec 12 16:41:43 2013. When the (Briarwood) Van Wyck Blvd station on the E and F opened in1937, there used to be bellmouths located south of this station. This was for a proposed line down Van Wyck Blvd, as part of the IND second system. These have been since connected to the Archer Avenue Subway. The entire grade separated tunnels for tracks D1A and D2A were built as part of the Queens Blvd lines contract under Public Works Administration (PWA) project No. 2741 in 1935 and 1936. The original tunnel lighting was installed and operative. They were called tracks D5 and D6 in 1935-36 and were destined to terminate at Rockaway Blvd. The tunnel was built originally from the (Briarwood) Van Wyck Blvd station to the middle of the present interlocking just north of the Jamaica-Van Wyck station. When the Archer Avenue Extension was added the original tunnel was left original except for the addition of ties and track. I figured the provision for the Van Wyck Blvd./ Archer Ave. line south of the Van Wyck Blvd (Briarwood) station was built at the same time as the rest of the Queens Blvd line. It made things a whole lot easier when construction on the Archer Ave. line began in 1972. |
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