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oddball rail transit observations

Posted by ntrainride on Sat Apr 20 07:46:12 2019

1. the ride on the lirr brooklyn branch from east new york to flatbush avenue terminal (i don't speak atlantic terminal) is the best rail ride in the city. it's just so stubbornly cool. first of all, east new york is like, the entire history of the city of brooklyn and later brooklyn borough's transportion on rails has been left around.

i mean, an elevated multi-line multi-level roller coaster from a railnut's fevered bhaat dreams-like transfer station? an underground four track local express transfer station? a two track "more or less" street-level "more or less" japanese style inner city heavy rail station with basically high speed direct 24/7/365 service in both directions? with ghostly signs showing where you connect to the ghost trains to the ocean shore?

hell, the abandoned east new york station of the manhattan beach line to the resorts, hidden well but still there...?

yeah, east new york all right...

the branch is modern the way the 1930s knew modern was supposed to look like. futuristic and old school. street level-tunnel-elevated-tunnel. it's a brooklyn-loving invention of supreme improvement over what it supplanted. no other borough has a train line quite like it.

the way it ends at flatbush avenue is also just very cool. brooklyn saying "well, yeah, okay, this is cool. flatbush avenue; last stop. all out. what? manhattan? sure. go that way..."

again, what other borough...has the balls? or the actual reality of the location circumstances that have always (post-south ferry days, of course) supported having a commuter rail terminus like fba?

none of course.

and it is dang cool to for now anyway be able to take a direct train from cold spring harbor or babylon or bethpage to elevated nostrand avenue station deep in the heart of the brooklyn lands..

dang cool indeed.

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