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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 04:11:17 2014, in response to Re: 110th Anniversary Celebration, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Oct 25 02:02:30 2014. You probably know that behind the curving wall, at the south end of the GC subway mezzanine, and just down from the shuttle's passageway that there are portions of the original 1904 curving tunnel from Park ave. into GC, complete with trackless roadbeds, tunnel style pillars - the works.You walk through this remaining structure (well lit) to get to the tower, through a door in the Concourse. I ran into a TA employee in GC around 1992 or so, who was nice enough to take me behind the door and show me what was there. We walked down to the tower and back. The entire or part of, the actual ramp down from these portions to the 4th ave. tunnel, was destroyed when the large tower was built there (dont' know whether this was done during the '50s or 60s). From the front window of a NB express, it looked like partt or all of the abandoned S. bound ramp curving down from GC is still there. David Rogoff told me at a NY Div. meeting during the 60's, that the entire curving tunnel structure (roadbeds etc.) remained from 1918, when the H system was put in service, until 1929, when the original shuttle passage was built. I wasn't sure I understood him correctly, but I thought he also said, there was some kind of wooden bridge built, over this remaining curving right of way that still existed east of the original GC / shuttle platform, for passengers to walk from the shuttle to the Lex. T also thought he said there were a couple of steps up on one or both sides of this bridge. I could have misunderstood him and he just meant that the remaining 3 tracks were boarded over, and passengers just walked on them to get to the Lex. I was told that info. on this existed in the Sprague Library, which has unfortunately, has been put into storage up at Branford. LarryRedbird or Randy O. have either of you heard anything about the arrangements of temporary wooden structures like this existing back then? |
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