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Posted by zac on Wed Jul 24 14:01:37 2024, in response to Re: Bergen Cutoff, posted by Q65A on Wed Jul 24 11:55:22 2024. In the summer/fall of '21 I needed some destinations for bike riding and I made it a point to find every dismantled el remnant. The furthest was Gun Hill Road, about 20-25 miles from home, so RT it was 40-50, and I never did a straight shot anyway. The pics were all posted here.In the process I discovered something that I'd never seen discussed or mentioned anywhere. There is a stub coming off the Queensboro Plaza dismantled north set of platforms that points at Jackson Ave that was meant to be the lead to the BRT Brooklyn/Queens Crosstown line. That line was never built and was dropped from the dual contracts early on in the planning. I saw a reference to it in a 1913 draft but it didn't make it to the final contract. Where I saw that I couldn't tell you, but it is out there somewhere. Anyway, here it is:  The track veering off to the right is the tail track built to turn BMT subway trains since they couldn't continue on to Astoria or Flushing. It was built on top of the original trackways in the 20s. The supporting cross beam is always at or near right angles to the tracks and that support beam would straddle Jackson. |
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