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Posted by randyo on Mon Dec 18 02:29:35 2017, in response to Canarsie Yard Move, posted by ModelRider on Mon Dec 18 01:43:15 2017. The original yard at Canarsie was at an approximately 90 degree angle to the line and was referred to as “AY.” The present yard which was initially smaller was called the “Dump” because it was built on landfill from garbage that was deposited there from the BMT garbage pickup trains. Years ago the garbage trains laid up on tk 1 in Ay and deposited the trash on the Rocky Pky side. As the land was filled in, tk 1 was gradually moved over and as service expanded, the BMT decided to put an additional yd there which became known as the dump and tk 1 AY now became tk 1 dump and the lowest tk number in AY was tk 2. I never found out what the BMT and its successors did with the garbage once the new yard was completed but both the Eastern and Southern Division pickups continued to lay up on tk 2 AY until the entire yd was reconfigured in late 1968. I would assume that continued depositing of trash in the area was what allowed the dump to be expanded so that AY was no longer needed and by the fall of 1968, all 14 St Line trains laid up to the dump and the new area was renamed simply “Rockaway Pky Yd.” From what the old timers told me the dump yd existed long before unification so that would mean pre 1940 but I only have the word of the old timers who are no longer around. The interlockings at the yard and in R/P station itself were the last 2 manual interlocking plans left on the NYCTS and circa 1960, the single Xover S/O E105 St was made into a diamond Xover and the switches immediately N/O R/P removed and the station tower decommissioned with the yd tower handling both the mainline and the yd switches. Actually only the switches from the mainline to the yd were tower controlled, the rest of the switches in the yd being hand thrown. In conjunction with the realignment of the yds at Canarsie, a new mini lever machine, home built by the NYCTA, was built and installed in a new tower in the station which now controlled the switches and the tower in the yd was demolished although the switches in the yd itself remained hand thrown till the ENY master tower was placed into operation. Although I’m not sure of the exact date, before I retired from the TA in 1997, the yard had been further expanded to allow some layups from the J Line to be stored there and a car wash was also installed there as well. |
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