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Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by Express Rider on Mon May 18 19:36:04 2020, in response to Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by ModelRider on Mon May 18 14:26:25 2020.

Are there any chemical cleaners strong enough to wash off the graffitee from the original mosaics?

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Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by Express Rider on Mon May 18 19:38:28 2020, in response to Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by ModelRider on Mon May 18 14:26:25 2020.

And thanks for finding these photos on-line. Somewhere on the web, I found another photo with a Myrtle Ave. closure notice posted on one of the station's stairways(?). - Actually, maybe someone posted that photo here.

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Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by Union Tpke on Mon May 18 19:47:43 2020, in response to Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by Express Rider on Mon May 18 19:38:28 2020.

I haven't seen that picture. Could you share a link?
Thanks.

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Re: [PHOTOS] Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by randyo on Mon May 18 19:50:51 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by IRTRedbirdR33 on Mon May 18 09:21:58 2020.

From what I can remember there was absolutely no through service between the WillyB and the Montague St tunnel till 1967. I came across an old Myrtle?Chambers timetable that showed a train from Met terminating at Chambers St and running light to Court St where it was supposed to enter service as a West End lcl. For whatever reason it was never scheduled to go through in service. I never saw the attached work program so I don’t know for sure if the same crew operated it on the West End or if a Southern Div crew relieved it either at Chambers or at Broad.

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Re: [PHOTOS] Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by Union Tpke on Mon May 18 19:54:12 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by randyo on Mon May 18 19:50:51 2020.

Do you still have access to said timetable? This information is fascinating. Have any trains been known to start at Court, other than during the Montague closure in 2013?

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Re: Gold Interlocking Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by randyo on Mon May 18 20:00:01 2020, in response to Re: Gold Interlocking Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by SLRT on Mon May 18 09:00:01 2020.

It may have been a law but with certain exemptions such a limit of how much underground mileage the cars were allowed to operate. The brief underground portion into Main St, the Anderson Av Tunnel and 9 Ave Lower would probably not rise any objections, and even the short distance between Essex and Chambers would probably be OK if pushing the envelope a bit. Something like el cars on the West End or Culver through the 4 Av Subway would definitely be frowned upon.

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Re: Gold Interlocking Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by randyo on Mon May 18 20:01:39 2020, in response to Re: Gold Interlocking Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by SLRT on Mon May 18 09:00:01 2020.

It may have been a law but with certain exemptions such a limit of how much underground mileage the cars were allowed to operate. The brief underground portion into Main St, the Anderson Av Tunnel and 9 Ave Lower would probably not rise any objections, and even the short distance between Essex and Chambers would probably be OK if pushing the envelope a bit. Something like el cars on the West End or Culver through the 4 Av Subway would definitely be frowned upon.

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Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by randyo on Mon May 18 20:10:50 2020, in response to Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by SLRT on Mon May 18 09:03:33 2020.

There was some documentation but I just cant recall where I saw it. Something alluding to the truth of that may be seen in the photos that exist of the Bluebird operating on the 4 Av Lcl. Even prior to unification, the handwriting was on the wall concerning the eventual demolition of the Fulton St el since the IND Fulton St Line was snaking its way east directly under the el. With that in mind, the BMT probably figured that with the ultimate demise of the Fulton and its replacement by the city subway, it would be best to concentrate on the lines that would most likely remain. At that point, if Fulton were gone, the only completely self contained els would be Myrtle, Lex and 5 Av and 5 Av was probably on life support at that point since it had already been rendered redundant by the BMT’s own 4 Av subway and the remaining els could not accommodate 10 ft wide cars anyhow.

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Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by randyo on Mon May 18 21:11:08 2020, in response to Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by SLRT on Mon May 18 14:34:06 2020.

It may be but the needs of the passengers come first. Another though occurred to me. As I have mentioned, one of the things the BRT wanted to do was to build a new station on the Myrtle Av pretty much above the subway station, so its possible that was another reason for changing the station name. The name change timeframe was consistent with the PSC report I cited so the proposed transfer point could have been a factor.

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Re: [PHOTOS] Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by randyo on Mon May 18 21:14:19 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by Union Tpke on Mon May 18 19:54:12 2020.

As I have mentioned before on this forum, shortly after David Gunn took over as NYCTA president, his sidekick David Feeley and his goons descended on the schedule office like a plague of locusts, removed and trashed anything that wasn’t of immediate importance and a lot of valuable historical data was lost.

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Re: Gold Interlocking Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by SLRT on Mon May 18 22:21:02 2020, in response to Re: Gold Interlocking Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by randyo on Mon May 18 20:01:39 2020.

Find the law then.

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Re: [PHOTOS] Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by SLRT on Mon May 18 22:25:31 2020, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by randyo on Mon May 18 19:50:51 2020.

Through passenger service from Montague Tunnel over Willy B, I can't think of any.

But some Southern Division trains to/from Nassau Street layed over at ENY.

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Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?

Posted by Express Rider on Tue May 19 12:31:24 2020, in response to Re: Original Sea Beach Route-What Is Gold St.?, posted by Union Tpke on Mon May 18 19:47:43 2020.

When I am able to find that photo again, certainly.

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