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Posted by Bronx boy on Wed Aug 3 23:35:50 2016, in response to Re: Shuttle of New York City, posted by Bronx boy on Wed Aug 3 20:45:17 2016. Joe, you are correct. The subway portion of the shoe paddler was cut off as it would have hit the tunnel wall. My error.The reason the tunnels were constructed that narrow is because the Jerome line was built under the duel contracts an may have been given to the BRT. The Shuttle' s official name when constructed was The 162nd 8th Ave Connection. It was built by the IRT as part of the Broadway line extension to 242nd St. Take note of the Sedgwick Ave. Station railings on the steel structure. You will notice is is the same design as contract one. The IRT paid for it so to insure the Jerome line would be theirs 10 foot wide cars would never fit. August Belmont was an astute businessman. Remember he was part of a syndicate that built the Steinway tunnels with a trolley line that ran one trip and was stopped with an injunction because they never filed the proper franchise papers. The syndicate went broke and all participants lost everything except him. He took over the entire project and after some time he sold the tunnels to the city of New York and got the contract under the duel contacts to operate the Flushing and Astoria line jointly with the BRT. Coincidently the lines were predominantly IRT as the 10 foot cars would not fit in the Steinway tunnels. The man knew what he was doing. If the Steinway tunnels were wide enough the Flushing line would be part of the B Division today. |
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