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Re: flushing line isolation |
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Posted by randyo on Tue Apr 9 20:35:01 2019, in response to flushing line isolation, posted by Baltimorerail on Tue Apr 9 19:57:36 2019. The Flushing Line wasn’t always isolated from the rest of the IRT. Till 1943, it was connected to the rest of the IRT via the 2 Av El which ran service to both Astoria and Corona but not Flushing proper since wooden cars were not allowed in the Subway at Main St. Somehow, the BMT’s el cars were allowed into Main St but I don’t know what sort of waiver might have been needed. Whenever Flushing cars had to be main shopped, they were sent to the IRT’s 148 St shops via the 2 Av el. After 1940 when the north end of the el was closed. the cars had to be sent to So/Fy to be turned and sent north via 3 Av. After the entire 2 Av el was shut down Flushing cars were main shopped at CIYd and brought there by BMT crews assigned to Corona Yd for that purpose. After BMT service to Flushing was ended in 1949, the BMT crews remained assigned to Corona Yd for the specific purpose of transferring Flushing cars to CIY for heavy maintenance. To this day Flushing Line cars are given heavy maintenance at CIY although I believe that these days miscellaneous crews have to be qualified on all divisions so a dedicated transfer crew is not necessary. I don’t know how it is now since the RCC had been relocated away from Jay St, but when the Command Center originally opened circa 1970, its radios were on BMT frequency and it was administered by the BMT desk along with the Astoria Line. For one pick around 1972, the supervision of the Flushing Line picked as part of the BMT instead of the IRT. |
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