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Posted by randyo on Mon Jul 17 18:31:39 2006, in response to Re: Long Forgotten Subway system in The Hamptons???, posted by New Brunswick Station on Mon Jul 17 11:20:46 2006. Without joking, there is a similar subway completely built in Cincinatti, Ohio with platforms and stairways in place but no tracks. It was not constructed clandestinely, but was built with the idea of bringing local streetcar and interurban lines into downtown Cincinatti as was done with Boston's first subway. Unfortunately, due to typical political wrangling, by the time the subway tunnels were completed, most of the electric railways it was designed to serve were either bustituted or abandoned entirely so the tunnels were abandoned and sealed. At one point, the city used part of one of the tunnels for a water main, but other than that the tunnels have fallen into decay. There is a website that has photos but I can't recall what it is.By the way, the short Pneumatic tube subway built by Alfred Ely Beach in lower Manhattan was entirely constructed without the knowledge of the city fathers especially Boss Tweed. The plans as originally submitted to the city called for 2 small tubes to be built to carry parcels similar to the tube systems in department stores. Beach, however secretly had one large tube constructed big enough for a small passenger railway car. Of course, when Tweed found out about it, he immediately had it shut down and all remains of it were destroyed when the BMT was being built in the City Hall area. So, in theory, it might be possible to have built the apocryphal "Montauk Subway" without the local politicians being fully aware of what is really going on. |
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