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Posted by tunnel rat on Thu Aug 18 17:04:49 2005, in response to Re: 76th Street (Was: Re: posting), posted by Douce Man on Thu Aug 18 12:43:59 2005. douce man you are wrong.I just rode a 6 car train of red birds pulling two r9,s that were picked up from the transit musuem to be taken to 207st yard.I was walking the cat walk from pitkin yard to euclid ave.when they were going into the yard.they stopped at yhe homeball to get permission to enter the yard into the shed.since I know both motormen Iwent along for a ride.the redbirds pushed the r9,s to the 2nd el. station on liberty ave.reversing ends again,the redbirds towed the r,9s to nostrand ave. where Iasked them to let me off. shepard ave. van siclen ave. and liberty ave.were all blue,not purple.I went into euclid tower and told everybody that was there that beyound the 4 layup tracks below the grant ave. station the tunnels extend to 79st. and pitkin ave.with 2 local stations built,roughed out with blue tiles on the wall.as told to me by 2 cops who I worked with in the 75pct,bklyn. they were in there about 1978.one of the cops was a former transit cop who had been in the station before.he got the structure door key from the yard master and entered thru tracksa7 a8.this door has long since been removed.as he described what was behind the cinder block is as follows.i walked the roadbed for a distance,it ended before the s/b platform.getting on the platform i went to the center entrance no token booth or turnstiles.but there were staircases going to the street,cemented over ,no handrails.on the roadbed there were no tracks signals or lights of any kind.type two subway construction.the tunnels extend beyound both ends of the station. this cop is also a buff. he is president of the long island chapter of the NHRR.with a little searching,you should be able to find him.he will verify what I said. Iwas also inside the signal relay room.on the wall is the original signal drawings dated 1948 showing all the signals.it showed the concrete wall beyound grant and pitkin.it shows where signals were to to be placed beyound the wall to be installed at a later date.they were to be controlled by the 76st.tower.tunnelrat |
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