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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Fri Apr 28 23:32:27 2017, in response to Re: East 180th Street (4/10/17), posted by tunnelrat on Fri Apr 28 16:23:07 2017. Hello SteveWe all make tiny brain fart errors -- I try to catch mine BEFORE I hit the post button -- and usually do -- but look at the "Loretto Street" glaring memory error I made vs; the actual street name "LEBANON STREET" - and I had to come back quickly and correct it. But its the data, facts, memories, photos, etc., and first hand experiences of we few ancient dinosaurs like you and me ( well, you ARE way older than me, yourself having lunch and booze WITH Belmont on his IRT Mineola Private Car enroute thru the LIRR-IRT connection in 1909 to Belmont Race track. I. heh, was just a baby back then !!! THAT'S WHY collaboration between old dino-heads of our group-genre like us gets the rusty points of details cleaned and shined up - like the 3rd rail back and forth issues -- per my photos documenting and making it factually clearer. I value and appreciate corrections to any small mistakes I make -- so as to get the record correct for the masses - all 10 or so people of them (just joking!) - who may be actively interested in this ancient stuff way before their time ! Here BELOW is an aerial photo from 2016 you may enjoy where I put in yellow R-o-W embankment-border-lines, for comparison, to indicate the precise path of the NYW&B Railway's 2 track to 4 track path thru all the present day new complete re-development of the former railway grounds. Unbelievable that all that grand massive railway and ground is gone -- and we both were there physically walking on its roadbed many times !  And BELOW is an identical location aerial photo in 1951 of the same entire area as per the top-most present day image -- but showing 55 years earlier, the still unbuilt (but 1950 built newly-added support piers in place) Cross Bronx Expressway, and the old arch-roof former Starlight Amusement Park "Coliseum Arena" events building, used since the early 1940's for TARS trolley car shops and barn and by 1951, for Surface Transit System Corp. red & cream GMC and MACK Transit Buses.  And here BELOW is a closer down Aerial from 1951 in that same area around the E. 174th street roadway bridge, showing basically what the land in the present day photo looked like about 55 years before it was all demolished and removed between 2005 and 2007!  Its is enjoyable to me for sharing this stuff, if not also very nostalgically melancholy also for myself having been there on site so many times and now seeing it, like a part of me, all gone, vaporized. And thankful that I took the photos I did 50 to 60 years ago (but remember, you are far wayyyy ancient than me, heh!) Thanks for that added interesting info about the "signal block" but I never saw signals on the embankment and trestle portion of the ex-NYW&B line below E. 180th Street AFTER NYCTA owned it since late 1940 -- unless they installed a few signals there in the late 1990's ? The last time ever that I walked that R-o-W was in the late 1980's. regards - Joe F |
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