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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Thu Mar 10 23:17:37 2016, in response to Re: What is this supposed to be?, posted by 3-9 on Thu Mar 10 22:40:59 2016. Hello 3 -9Thanks - glad you enjoyed them !! Even tho "I" am still around now, heh, its hard to believe after 52 years that all that - The R-33-36 Cars as brand new back then, and the NYW&B Railway 4 Track massive steel & concrete decked Trestle from just above Lebanon St, south down to the earth 4 track embankment to E.172nd Street, is all gone since 2005-6. The E. 174th to 172nd Street NYW&B R-o-W is now redeveloped as part of a new City Park. The long removed earthern embankment is all re-developed up to Lebanon Street WELL, IF YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH, YOU GET TO SEE SO MUCH AND MAYBE TOO MUCH ! Examples below in images!  ABOVE -S/W on Lebanon Avenue to east side of NYW&B Trestle Feb. 1964 and 52 years later -- below --  ABOVE - S/W on Lebanon Avenue east of the site of now long gone ex-NYW&B Steel Viaduct Trestle, in 2015, now the location of a brand new apartment building constructed in its place. Now I know how my long deceased (died at age 85 in 1971) Uncle felt when he told me back in the the early 1960's that he saw and remembered the first IRT Composites cars and steel Gibbs cars running brand new in the new 1904 IRT first subway line, those cars which he rode as a 14 year old boy and regularly later as a grown man for 45+ years --- and then seeing them removed (and scrapped, Composites 1950-51 and Gibbs Cars in 1958-60) for the "new trains" (heh, NOW scrapped). Regards - Joe F |
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