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Re: Tracks beyond Euclid Ave |
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Posted by SilverFox on Thu Mar 29 00:54:52 2007, in response to Tracks beyond Euclid Ave, posted by NewLots#2 on Wed Mar 28 23:18:42 2007. That four-track line was to be a tri-county cooperative effort to bring local subway service to Montauk Point along the south shore of Long Island. Reports have had it that there was actually an IND-style subway built during the 1930s that supposedly linked the Hamptons and Montauk, and maybe ran as far west as Shirley. Unfortunately, funding dried up due to World War II and this line, with completed stations and fixtures, was first orphaned and then sealed and backfilled, never having run a train. The Queens portion was to run past Euclid Avenue with stops at 76th Street (where there exists a full station with ample evidence of its existence and several R-9 cars modified for running along this mega-line that were forgotten after testing and trapped by the backfilling that later occurred), Cross Bay Boulevard, Van Wyck Expressway/Kennedy Airport, 150th Street, Farmers Boulevard, North Hangar Road, Rockaway Blvd, Sunrise Highway/Laurelton Expressway, and Hook Creek Boulevard. To avoid jurisdictional issues, the tracks ended at a "sliding table track" able to shift entire trains and their passengers onto an adjoining set of Nassau County rails that began at the Queens/Nassau border, where newly-appointed motormen and conductors from the new MTA Nassau Subway division would take over until a similar arrangement was reached at the Suffolk Border, where -- you guessed it! -- MTA Suffolk Subway crewmembers would pilot the train to Montauk with maybe a crew change in Shirley. For what is now $2.00 and about six-and-a-half hours of riding through stations every quarter of a mile or so, you could have ridden R-38s with a railfan window, in complete darkness, to Montauk Point from the nether-reaches of The Bronx! |
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