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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Fri Apr 28 10:41:57 2017, in response to Re: East 180th Street (4/10/17), posted by Bill Newkirk on Fri Apr 28 07:27:26 2017. Hello Bill (Newkirk) --Its hard to do so and save the image from that link -- So I called up the location on Google on my end as I have the newest updated both 3D and 2D format program with full virtual 360 ANY ANGLE degree "helicopter roll around type angles". I, heh, "flew over" in 2D mode like plane or helicopter and maneuvered and angled in 2D form the image to best show the saved signal bridge in its environment -- here is the AERIAL photo; In the BELOW AERIAL image I "artwork overlaid" those 4 visible short sections of tracks with ties to better visually-indicate where the 4 NYW&B Railway tracks actually ran up to and under the Signal Bridge. I also used yellow lines to designate the perimeter edges of the 4-track R-o-W upward-rising embankment. Of course, the entire embankment land north to near E. 177th Street was all removed to create level flat grounds for the parkland -- and the new bus garage and parking lots seen to the north.  NOW -- Here BELOW are some photos at park ground level of the Bridge -- this being the FIRST Signal and Catenary Wire Anchor support bridge on the NYW&B"s own R-o-W property. It shared NHRR wire and signal bridges south of the E. 174th Street Bridge in its years of operation. ================================================================ BELOW photo is looking south in 1954 to that first NYW&B Signal and Catenary Wire Anchor gantry bridge -- the first solely on NYW&B property. The E. 174th St Roadway bridge is seen passing overhead as the NYW&B 4 tracks merge to two tracks so as to parallel the NHRR 4 Track Main Line. And with NO switch-track connection to NYW&B yet, that switch installed and connected to the ex-NYW&B N/B express track later in 1954 for new IRT R-17 Car deliveries at this point.  BELOW is looking south in 2014 60 years later from the near save location, in the Starlight Parkland Grounds, to that same bridge as saved as a landmark to the NYW&B within the park  The BELOW is looking north in 1952 from the shadow of the overhead E. 174th Street bridge along the ex-NYW&B's rising 4 track embankment while standing on its former S/B Express track, showing the NYW&B Railways first Signal and Cat Wire Anchor bridge -- the one saved in the present day Parkland.  The BELOW is looking north in 2015, 63 years later, from immediately north of the E. 174th Street bridge along the ex-NYW&B's removed and leveled former 4-track embankment while standing approximately between where its former S/B and N/B Express tracks once were, showing the now saved NYW&B Railways first Signal and Catenary Wire Anchor bridge - as now historically land-marked in the present day Starlight Parkland grounds.  I hope the above photo give you all a better more accurate visual idea of what still remains down there and what it looked like in the heyday past, compared to the now present! regards - Joe F |
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