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Posted by qveensboro_plaza on Wed Nov 17 12:24:51 2021, in response to Re: One more thing [PHOTOS], posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Wed Nov 17 11:05:40 2021. So you're saying the 2 tracks directly east of the station that made up the BMT tail track along the Flushing line were originally purposed to go down Jackson Ave w/o a tail track ever existing?This is a very good question! It was stated somewhere along this thread that the tail track was not part of the original BMT layout at QBP. Someone suggested that the track was only installed before the 1939 World's Fair. Your question prompted me to do a bit of web sleuthing, and that led to the 1923 annual report of the New York (State) Transit Commission, which addresses the matter on page 132 [LINK]. To simplify matters, here is a frame grab of the relevant paragraph, which I think answers your question:  It is possible that the structure, as built in 1917, included a provision for the Crosstown connection at Jackson Avenue. The subsequent problem of accommodating the wider BMT trains was more important, and so that part of the structure was rebuilt for the layup track leads. It sounds as though the crosstown project was becoming less and less likely anyway, and if it had ever been implemented, the BMT could have built a new layup track on the Jackson Avenue structure. |
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