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Re: Another Subway Mystery Curio (Re: Question About the “L” BMT line) |
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Posted by murray1575 on Tue Jun 21 22:36:30 2022, in response to Re: Another Subway Mystery Curio (Re: Question About the “L” BMT line), posted by Elkeeper on Tue Jun 21 17:11:39 2022. I think you are right in that the city planned to tear down almost all the old elevated lines once it completed the purchase of the IRT and BMT which finally happened in 1940. Two sections of the elevated lines which remained in service after 1956 were the Culver line which was through connected to the IND subway at Church & McDonald (formerly Gravesend) Avenues and the Queens section of the Fulton St. line which was connected to the A line at Grant Ave. both of which were built during the Dual Contracts era to support the operation of steel subway cars. Unification eliminated the need for the city to recapture these lines and the work would have been done sooner if a world war had not taken place in the 1940s especially in the case of the Culver line where the steel work had already been at least partially completed. The only other exception was the final remnant of the 9th Ave. line which operated as a shuttle between 8th Ave. - 155th St. and 167th St. on the Jerome Ave. line beginning in June 1940 and was discontinued in August 1958. |
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