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Posted by mellow one on Wed Oct 17 18:44:01 2007, in response to 3rd ave el question, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Tue Oct 16 10:14:09 2007.  This is a George Votova picture of the upper level of the 3rd Ave El junction at 143rd St looking north showing a 5 car train of IRT Composite cars passing south through the junction from the Bergen St Cutoff. The single (express) track to the left descends to the 3rd Ave El. The two tracks to the right go to the Bergen St Cutoff. Those tracks turn onto Willis Ave and go north a couple of blocks before tuning at Bergen St to 149th St and then ramping down to the junction with the the original 150th St connecting ramp (from the 3rd Ave El) to the IRT Subway on Westchester Ave. The original portion of the El line in the Bronx below 149th St to 129th St in Manhattan was the Suburban Rapid Transit Company Line, which was originally planned as a PROW railway that was to follow the Bergen St Route to or along Westchester Ave. However, the cost of land acquisition became to high and the franchises of the New York, Fordham and Bronx Railway Company became the Bronx 3rd Ave route in 1886. The IRT subway would adopt the former route up Westchester Ave and in 1918 and the Bergen St Cutoff completed the original Suburban route. When the Suburban line 2 track structure was buit at 143rd St in 1887, provision was made for a junction to the original planned route at that place. |
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