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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Wed Apr 26 19:49:15 2017, in response to Re: East 180th Street (4/10/17), posted by tunnelrat on Wed Apr 26 11:40:19 2017. Hello Steve !I have photos in 1954 and 1955 of 3rd rail going down to about E.175th street where the Cross Bronx X-way was being built in 1954. Uncovered EL style and position 3rd rail on ONLY the outside 2 local tracks. In the early 1960's, 3rd rail was removed from outer local tracks from E. 175th Street and cut back to about E. 177th Street, where it then continued as before, northward. The all-original-NYW&B rail center 2 ex-NYW&B express tracks NEVER had it installed as they were long O.O.S by 1945 BELOW, just outside of, E. 180th Street (NYW&B) Station platforms. The NYCTA by that time had no useful need of, nor active work-train use of, the two ex-NYW&B Local tracks below, south of, that E. 177th Street overpass bridge point for ELECTRIC TRAIN operation. Except for NHRR-Diesel-Loco-only pushed new car deliveries, as in the 1954 thru 1964 new IRT R-Type Car deliveries using that ex-NYW&B trackage -- as well as NYCTA "interchange" rolling stock, NYCTA Hoppper Cars and materials content NYCTA Flat cars, to and from the NYCTA. Remember, I photographed on a snowy day in Feb. 1964, deliveries of brand new IRT R-33 and R-36 Blue & White 1964 NY Worlds Fair cars being delivered on that trackage. (I think I posted those photos here a while ago) The NHRR pushed any consists to be delivered uphill from the E.174th St single track connection from the NHRR S/B Local Main track, north to the third rail point cut back new location at the E. 177th St overpass, and further north to near Loretto St where the NHRR Loco and crew stopped at THAT sign. And likewise, the NHRR Locos and crews PICKED UP any OUTBOUND consists - usually empty NYCTA Hopper cars or NYCTA material loads Flat car - to take southward down grade to the single track and switch connection to the NHRR Main. I would assume these cars ended up at NHRR Oak Point yards for insertion into standard freight trains. The NHRR single switch connection track (installed sometime around late 1953) came off the S/B NHRR local Main, and entered the former NYW&B N/B Express track passing under the overhead E. 174th St roadway bridge. About a block further north uphill the 4-track embankment, near the E. 175th St (Cross Bronx X-way overpass)area, that former N/B express track (actually partly new rail sections of trackage installed by NYCTA) curved gently to the right and then slightly left to be connected to and run along the ex-NYW&B former N/B Local track. The original N/B express track was not connected at the north end of that newly installed slight NB Exp to NB Local changeover. NOR was the N/B local track connected BELOW that new changeover. Both those original NYW&B rail tracks, were totally isolated from any active rail discussed just above. NHRR trains delivering cars to that interchange would, had to, head South on the S/B Local track of the NHRR - running consist-long a few car lengths past that single connecting-switch, and then set the switch for the reverse move across it and PUSH BACKWARDS, north, any consists to be delivered uphill to the NYCTA at their stopping point SIGN located along the track at Loretto Street. The NHRR loco would then uncouple, and head back downgrade to the NHRR Main, and close AND SPIKE CLOSED, the connection switch. I watched a few of these operations between 1959 and 1964. I took photos of one of these special interchange moves in 1964. I think the LAST use of that connection track was some time in either 1974 or 1975 (I'll look date up in my files) when a NHRR Loco Engineer (Noel Weaver) delivered a MACK Sperry Rail Car directly ONTO the NYCYA Property and into the IRT E. 180th St NYW&B Station and to the ex-NYW&B Westchester SHOP Yards with a NYCTA pilot motorman. The E. 174th St switch to the NHRR main was re-set and spiked closed by a NHRR Crew and some time later, that entire connection switch and small section of connection track towards E. 174th St bridge, was removed. Thus completely isolating the ex-NYW&B 4-Track R-0-W and the NYCTA, from the NHRR trackage. Remember, that was also during the time when the ongoing 2nd Ave Subway construction was stopped "indefinately" due to NY City's very dire Fiscal issues. regards - Joe F |
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