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Posted by Joe on Fri Aug 30 13:22:38 2019, in response to Re: 3rd Ave Trolley Route in Manhattan & Bronx!, posted by randyo on Thu Aug 29 17:40:23 2019. @randyoYou asked why 125 and 145 needed conduit. In the case of 125th Street, from Third Avenue to Amsterdam Avenue, 125th Street was part of Manhattan-only conduit routes, T and K. From Amsterdam Avenue to Broadway, it was part of Manhattan-only conduit route B-Broadway. --- I don't know the year in which overhead trolley wires were forbidden. I suspect it was early, about the time electric traction replaced grabbing a moving cable. --- At any rate, beginning at the north, there was overhead wire to allow non-revenue Bronx cars to reach the Kingsbridge barn at 218th Street, Manhattan. West 207th had maybe a mile of overhead wire from the Harlem River to Broadway, but notice there was no connection to the conduit K-Kingsbridge at Broadway. West 181st Street had a busy half-mile of overhead wire from the Harlem River to the double crossover before Broadway. Again, there was no connection to the conduit K-Kingsbridge on Broadway. West 155th Street had overhead wire from the Harlem River to whatever was the western terminal, also lacking connection to Manhattan conduit routes. --- Likewise at West 135th Street. --- The case of West 145th Street is special, as apparently the TARS was able to operate cars there because it held the franchise for the odd route from Eighth and 145th to Broadway and 181st Street. That question belongs to the tangle of corporate history. --- I have no idea whether any of the Bronx routes with western tags had their wires strung in Manhattan before or after anti-wire legislation. |
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