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Posted by Larry,RedbirdR33 on Sun Dec 21 08:55:04 2014, in response to Re: IND Eighth Ave Line - 72nd/81st Street Siding, posted by TUNNELRAT on Sat Dec 20 22:49:09 2014. in a few weeks I,ll dig up the article and post the date&year in was printed. Steve: You're getting far to old to be outside digging things up in the middle of winter. Although I have no idea why you would bury your subway archives in the back yard. The following information might be of use. The article that you referred to is "Abandoned and Unused Tracks and Tunnels of the IRT." It was written by the late David Rogoff and appears in the April and June 1964 issues of the New York Division Bulletin. In the chapter on Unused Trackage Space there is a reference to the "Lenox Stub." It was located north of the 96th Street - Broadway Station to the east of the Lenox Avenue Line tracks. It was in us possibly for storage or layups in the early days of the subway. The track was removed very early but the space remained for storage. A second article titled "Eighty Years of Subway Service to The Bronx" appears in the July, 1985 issue of The Bulletin. It was also written by Mr.Rogoff and published after his death. It was originally planned that the "West Side Branch" (today's Broadway Line) would be built as a two track line. After work had begun it was decided to expand the line to three tracks which caused a great deal of reconstruction. As part of this reconstruction a third track was added to the lower level north of 96th Street. (That is today's Lenox Avenue Line) to the east of the present tracks . This track was underneath the present northbound Broadway Line local track (BB3). It ran as far north as the point where the Lenox Avenue Line turns east off of Broadway. The stub connected to the northbound track at this point. Space was left at the south end for a switch but this may never have been installed. A third article titled "Lenox Avenue Line" by Mr.Bernard Linder appears in the August, 1990 issue of The Bulletin. There is a track map in this issue that shows the siding with connections at both ends with the caption, "appears on 8/12/03 drawing, omitted from later drawings. Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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