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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Thu Apr 27 11:20:50 2017, in response to Re: East 180th Street (4/10/17), posted by 3-9 on Thu Apr 27 06:14:28 2017. Hello 3-9 AND Bill (Newkirk)Thanks both for your comments -- appreciated. As time goes by this type of nascent historical information becomes further and further into the growing distant fog of many past decades ago and eventually gets lost forever unless recorded and shared. SO I share what I can here to those who may appreciate and / or find it useful and interesting. Here is a photo taken in July 1957 looking north from a point between E. 174th St roadway overpass bridge,(behind us) and E.175th Street and the adjacent then-under-construction Cross Bronx X-way overpass seen in distance. It is taken standing between the long abandoned (since 1945) ex-NYW&B Railway 2 center Express tracks on the upgrade earthern 4 track roadbed embankment. On the former NYW&B RR S/B Local track is seen a train of BMT 700 series Center Door El Gate motor cars, with # 749 in the lead and #752 behind it. And another train of same BMT EL Gate cars stored just north of the Expressway overpass. Note the BMT EL Motor Car truck (and its BMT-trademark lower end-tie bar at it's left side) draped across the S/B Local track rails as a temporary "bumper" to keep the stored EL cars from free-rolling downgrade towards, under and past the E. 174th St roadway bridge. That S/B Local track ended abruptly at the trackless gravel abandoned NYW&B 2-track roadbed past that point, parallel to the NHRR Mainline. However, as a few sections of the S/B Local track westerly rail, somewhat ahead (south of) of the first car, was removed, the runaway would more likely have just derailed (as was intended) and veered off-track to the (photo left side) west and rolled over and tumbled down the edge of the embankment about 12 feet to the flat abandoned grounds of the former Starlight Amusement Park Grounds  regards - Joe F |
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