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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Aug 18 12:42:09 2005, in response to Re: 76th Street (Was: Re: posting), posted by Train Dude on Tue Aug 16 21:43:26 2005. OH CHIT! There's LOTS of replies to this! Oh NOES! I'se got some sleeping to do after too much work. Aggggh! :)What I'd tried to type was that I was told by a guy who worked the A before it was sealed up that there was about enough room on ONE track for maybe 6 cars, and 4 cars on two others. Word is there's one track that goes maybe 10 FEET past the cinder blocks and that they'd stick some trains there when needed, but those tracks were totally useless. I *know* you know about YARDS, bro. Heh. If those tracks were the LEAST bit useful for 8 or 10 cars worth of anything, they'd be *used* ... no? Man ... I'm amazed (haven't read the rest of this chain yet) that anybody thought I was resurrecting a ghost ... but since this seems to be the case ... here is everything I got told by a veteran A train motorman who refreshed me about two years ago just before he died here in Voorheesville at the age of 76 ... "Four tracks, one of which is useful, you can turn maybe 8 cars if you're careful on it, but *I* wouldn't try it, two other tracks that maybe you can do four, and one track that just ends the moment it got dark. Nothing went there." "The tunnel goes back a good way and there are signs of local platforms that were planned, but never built where the end gets wider. No concrete was poured for platforms, but the shell was built, but only 2-3 carlengths worth. At the end, there's cinder blocks and a lot of dirt." "Third rail extended about far enough for 6 cars on the one set of tracks that we used. No third rail was placed for the other three tracks beyond where the sections logically extended from the interlocking." It WAS used for turning cuts of cars, and it was used for layups." END of story. That's what *I* heard. That there WAS "an enlargement for a station" and that the tunnel did go a ways back. Was that "enlargement" 76th? HE didn't think so, but it IS back there. His opinion was that the tunnel only went back 3-4 blocks, but SOMETHING was there - perhaps plans for an interlocking that got moved outside the tunnel in the end? Who knows? Who CARES? :) |
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