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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Mon Mar 14 15:46:19 2016, in response to Re: What is this supposed to be?, posted by tunnelrat on Sun Mar 13 14:35:46 2016. Hello Steve --I don't have any photos and have never seen any so far -- of: (a) The New Haven RR crews constructing the new connection switch and length of straight track north from the S/B NHRR Main Local track, north to and straight into the ex-NYW&B Railway N/B Express track back in very early 1955, for new IRT Car deliveries and material deliveries via rail to the IRT-NYCTA. (b) Nor any of the ex-NYW&B Railway line being constructed to subway use after it was purchased by the City of NY in 1940, installing transit-style signals and subway-style and positioned covered 3rd rail. I would expect that these photos may have been professionally taken by the City back then and still exist as City-archived, or may have at one time, existed and been discarded - as the NYCTA did with in the early 1960's when they cleaned out the storage rooms at 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, (then NYCTA H/Q)and discarded, destroyed almost all the THEN LONG VINTAGE AND HISTORIC photos, documents, and plans, data files, records, relating to the old Manhattan & Brooklyn 1880's era built Elevated lines that were torn down between 1937 thru 1956. That event is a long story in itself, heh. Re: your comment - quoted: ...."In 1987 the t.a. spent $25 million dollars to turn the trestle into a mini yard.I remember seeing a train of "redbirds layed (laid) up at the b/b (bumper block) in the middle of the trestle only once or twice. what a waste of money"..... Well, that kind of money waste doesn't surprise me !! Had they had any intelligence, they could decades earlier have KEPT and maintained in good order, from E. 174th Street north, all the 4 tracks of the R-o-W and a multi-track junction connection to AMTRAK -- as the MTA owned NY Transit as well as the MTA Commuter Rail -- and can you imagine select CON-DOT commuter (catenary powered) trains from Penn Station via, over, the Hell Gate Bridge route scheduled for running up along the overhauled ex-NYW&B lower R-o-W to re-habbed high-level-platform stations at Hunts Point and Westchester Avenue, and up from E.174th Street junction to terminate at the former NYW&B E.180th St. Station and passenger-transfer to the IRT lines for continuing destinations further north. Could have been, and serviced that coastal area of the south to mid Bronx ! (Well, just a fantasy pipe dream, heh !) PS: Steve - as far as this topic of these long gone IRT-NNHRR-NYW&B connections, and its history and etc., it seems this topic has generated very little interest and no further interest over the past few days. I thank you and the few other posters for their interest and comments on this transit related historical topic. Regards - Joe F |
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