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Posted by JOE @ NYCMTS - NYCTMG on Sun Feb 2 14:41:47 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location??...Not so easy!:), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Feb 1 18:38:37 2020. Hello Jim and any here interestedHere is a fairly simple but accurate track Map created with my notations and arrows for indicating upper and lower level tracks for both the BMT and IRT sides of the massive Queens Plaza Station - as it existed PRIOR to October 1949 BELOW is an embedded image  --- but it may be better viewed in much larger full detail with the CLICK ON Thumbnail image below - click it for the much large detailed image CLICK THIS IMAGE  Note that the BMT Shuttles from the Flushing Line could go to their terminating upper and lower level (on NORTH side of BMT Station complex Half) tracks and platforms -- and go back Flushing El from either track on either level. However, to come from the Flushing El and terminate, and head out instead to the Astoria El, the shuttles had to use double "X" crossing as noted and go to the track to the UPPER Level BMT platform, which ends at a bumper at its west end. On leaving it would switch to the directly parallel to its north upper level track that took it to the proper outbound direction to enter the Astoria Line outbound local track. Those multiple routes, separate-company trains, and various interlocking junctions must have been nightmares for the the various towers and Towermen operating them - heh Note that the October-Nov. 1949 newly installed steelwork and short connection tracks on both levels to shift the BMT Tracks form their 60th St Tunnel, over to the ex-2nd Avenue EL tracks on the north side of the IRT Upper & Lower Level island platforms, is indicated also on the map -- is indicated on the map plan. Hopefully this map will be of use to show how complicated but yet functional this massing complex was. Regards - Joe F |
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