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Re: PROFF!! (Re: ''After a fire damaged the structural integrity of the elevated tracks, the western) |
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Posted by Express Rider on Wed Mar 11 23:53:07 2015, in response to PROFF!! (Re: ''After a fire damaged the structural integrity of the elevated tracks, the western), posted by SLRT on Wed Mar 11 18:43:24 2015. Nice! Thanks for finding the picture and putting it up.Interesting for me though - was on the ERA farewell fantrip a couple of days after 10/4/69 - I went with my younger brother. We were in a hurry, made the mistake of not remembering that the fantrip started (I'm pretty sure) at Fresh Pond. We get off the F probably at Jay st., and holy sh*t, Mrytle-Jay is fenced off, with a "service discontinued" sign. I looked over at my brother, said, "---t! we made a mistake, should have remembered or read the fantrip flyer a little better." We both ran/ half trotted under the el, from Jay up to Myrtle-B'way. Yep - quite a distance! I was nineteen then, he was fourteen. Anyway, I'm sure we must have trotted/ran past the monstrosity of a jury-rig job. Probably noticed it, but certainly never remembered it.... The one thing I do remember was looking up the underside of the el structure at one point, and seeing the structural remains of the trackways from the Old Main Line cutting in from the left, and the trackway structures that would have continued on to the Lex. When I saw these, my reaction was, now I understand I what David Rogoff was referring to in his NY Div Bulletin article about abandoned structures on the BMT els. Also noticed the trackway structures for the 5th ave. el turnoff..... My brother and I made it to Myrtle-Bway in time - the train of Q's pulled in just after we got up to the platform. Don Harold was in the first car - I think maybe at the fron window..... |
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