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Posted by W.B. on Tue Sep 10 09:19:55 2019, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for September 10, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Tue Sep 10 08:23:59 2019. These original IND stations had two different variations of the pre-lettered and -numbered tiles (white type on black print). 110th, 103rd, 96th, 86th, 81st, 72nd, 59th, 50th, 42nd, 34th, 23rd and 14th Streets (11 stations in total) had a variant where there was an embossed outline of the numbers and arrows, one seen on only one later-to-open station (a small part of the 205th Street terminus of the Concourse line) plus a lettered version at the westernmost end of the eastbound platform of the Queens Plaza station facing towards the local track (since taken out after the station was remodeled).The rest have a variant thereof which would later feature in several other stations which would open up to 1939: 207th, Dyckman-200th, 190th, 181st, 175th, 168th, 163rd, 155th, 145th, 135th, 125th, 116th, West 4th, Spring, Canal and Chambers Streets (the last with 'H AND M' on the walls of both A and today's E platforms) (16 stations in total). Spring Street station had a different shape of arrows pointing to a station exit than the other local stations north of 116th, though the letters and numbers were of the same piece. As well, three BMT stations that opened in 1931 bore this same type that would be characterized by Forgotten New York as "machine age" station design: Fulton and Broad Streets of the Centre / Nassau loop, and the Eighth Avenue terminus of the 14th Street-Canarsie line (all, sadly, since remodeled "BMT style"). The oldest sections built - two in particular (the first area built, Sections 3, 3A and 4, 1.53 miles between 141st-142nd Streets at St. Nicholas Avenue and 111th-112th Streets at Eighth Avenue; plus Sections 1 and 1A, 1.05 miles between 88th-89th Streets and 68th-69th Streets at Central Park West) - would be the last built with the "diagonal bracing" towards the roof as seen on many a structural steel section built since the building of the city's first subway which opened in 1904. It was also the last where, primarily, the "old" style of using American Standard 'I' beams were used for the roofs and sidewalls, and four uneven-angle sections riveted to web plates for both steel bents separating each track and platform columns. As time went on and more routes of the IND were built, there would be a switch to the newer Carnegie Steel 'CB' sections of wide flange weights and sizes. (All info on the sections from Engineering News-Record, June 24, 1926.) One of the remodeled sections of the 14th Street station reveal the 15 lb. 'I' section roof beams to have been made by Pencoyd Iron Works (stenciled 'PENCOYD USA'); plates would have come from Carnegie Steel. |
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