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Posted by qveensboro_plaza on Tue Nov 16 20:40:32 2021, in response to Re: One more thing, posted by zac on Tue Nov 16 16:32:54 2021. Are there any pics from the other side?Two things: The first picture shows the recently-abandoned tracks for the north side of QBP, probably taken in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Dual service had ended in 1949 and this structure was demolished in the early 1960s. There is a train of R1-9s on the former IRT Astoria line, which had been used by Second Avenue El trains as well as IRT trains from Times Square. Someone here may know if R1-9s were in BMT service at this time or if it is a fan trip. The tracks on the lower left were for the BMT shuttle service to Astoria. Looking at the tracks on the lower level, the two left tracks provided BMT shuttle service to Flushing. It was a round-robin service, so the arriving Astoria shuttle became the outbound Flushing shuttle, and vice-versa. Note that the eastbound track goes under the IRT structure. The remains of these trackways can still be seen from the 7 train. The two tracks on the lower right led to the BMT layup track that ran next to the IRT Flushing tracks over the Sunnyside Yards. If the Crosstown line had been built instead, these tracks would have curved to the right to continue over Jackson Avenue.  To give you an idea of how it might have looked, here is a fanciful artist's impression of QBP from 1914, before any construction actually began. It bears almost resemblance to what was actually built. It would have been a switching nightmare, like an aerial DeKalb Avenue. Second Avenue El and BRT trains share the upper level of the Queensborough Bridge, as was originally planned, leading to a single-level station with five platforms, which also accommodate the IRT Queensborough line from (then) Grand Central, as well as the BRT Brooklyn Crosstown line. The BRT trains are shown using el-type rolling stock, although the larger Standards were most certainly in development at that point. 
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