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Re: Tuscarora Almanac for June 25 |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Fri Jun 26 22:43:08 2026, in response to Re: Tuscarora Almanac for June 25, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Fri Jun 26 11:23:35 2026. Its amazing how a crew of "artists" can smuggle in all that spray paint, take all that time to do the deed without being detected.It's amazing but easy to see what happened. East New York Yard. At night, they would stand on the Manhattan-bound platform at Broadway Junction near the front end of the train. As soon as one left the station they knew another would be about 12 minutes away. Then they would hop down and run the yard lead and be in the yard in less than 2 minutes. No one saw this because at night, the switchmen are playing cards or going home early. Fresh Pond Yard. This was the easiest for vandals. By 9:30 pm most M trains are laid-up. It's not a maintenance yard so there is little movement once trains are laid-up for the night. Vandals could easily observe this from the station or scoping things out as passengers on a passing train. They would stand on the platform at Fresh Pond near the rear of a Manhattan-bound train. Once a train passed they knew the next one was more than 10 minutes away, so they climbed down the steps and ran the catwalk into the yard. Those trains just sat their from 9 pm until put-ins the next morning. Sometimes kids would cut or bend the fence at Farmers Oval/Joseph Mafera park which is next to the active mainline tracks between Fresh Pond and Metropolitan and just run into the yard. This happened one year when I was playing softball at the park. The ump called time out because a few kids were running from Fresh Pond Yard and struggling to squeeze under the fence. This was on a Saturday afternoon. I don't know why they were there in the daytime but they were brazen. I sometimes wonder how many kids those guys fathered? |
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