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Posted by Larry,RedbirdR33 on Wed Dec 18 12:44:07 2013, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac - December 15, 1956 - The Book of First and Last Runs, posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Wed Dec 18 03:20:48 2013. This Bergen Junction replaced the train interlocking congestion and at grade track multiple crossings at the old E.150th Street JCT connector to the West Farms EL. However, both EL Connections remained intact until 1949, When the longer Bergen cut segment was removed, and 1952-3 when the E.150th St 2 blocks connector was, as it was out of service for many years, removed.Joe: Thanks for a thoughtful and insightful series of posts. Most of us were aware that there were differences in the subway and el third rail but you explained exactly what those differences were. I particularly liked the anecdote about the towerman at Jackson Avenue miss-routing the el train into the subway. Having been a towerman myself I can appreciate the situation. You also noted something in your last post that often gets overlooked. There were five not four Manhattan Railway elevated lines. The Suburban Railway Line in The Bronx was built in addition to the four els in Manhattan. Although the southern terminus was the joint station at 129 Street they ran as a separate operation for the first tens years or so. Also it had been the intent of the planners to build an elevated railway over private rights-of-way which is why the initial portion between 133 Street and 146 Street (+/-) ran through the back alleys of the apartment houses. This form of construction proved to be prohibitively expensive so by the time that they reached 149 Street they returned to the more conventional form of elevated construction over city streets, albeit 3rd Avenue. The el structure over the private ROW put you up close and personal with the local population. You could look in a second floor window and see what someone was having for breakfast. Its nice to know tha some form of this operation exists today on the Myrtle Avenue El north of Wyckoff Avenue. Thank you also for those pictures of the model railway. The cars are so finely detailed that you have to look twice to tell its a model. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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