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Was there a loop inside the B&QT 9th Ave carbarn? |
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Posted by Joe on Thu Aug 13 18:17:33 2020 In the late 1940's, Dad and I sometimes observed action at the Tenth Avenue end of the Ninth Avenue carbarn, where Brooklyn's PCC's were stored between runs. Almost every memory is of the streamliners facing Tenth Avenue, and about to begin their runs along 20th Street. Looking at photo sites, I don't see even one photo of the rear of a PCC heading into the barn. One photo shows a car emerging on Track 12. I surmise that somewhere among the pillars that held up the second story (entered from Ninth Avenue, now Prospect Park West) there was a loop for use by single-end cars. Was there? Was it used clockwise or counter-clockwise? Thanks. Joe |
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Re: Was there a loop inside the B&QT 9th Ave carbarn? |
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Posted by Avid Reader on Fri Aug 14 17:58:55 2020, in response to Was there a loop inside the B&QT 9th Ave carbarn?, posted by Joe on Thu Aug 13 18:17:33 2020. There could have been something like the Essex Street Terminal at the end of the Manhattan end of the Willie B   |
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Re: Was there a loop inside the B&QT 9th Ave carbarn? |
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Posted by Joe on Sat Aug 15 13:57:44 2020, in response to Re: Was there a loop inside the B&QT 9th Ave carbarn?, posted by Avid Reader on Fri Aug 14 17:58:55 2020. Yes, I recall boarding streetcars at the underground Delancey Street loop, but I don't recall 8 loop tracks as on the design map. I recall two or three.--- I am surprised that no floor plan of the lower level of the 9th Avenue barn has showed up. The motormen who used that barn before 1956 have probably all passed away. If the pillars holding up Delancey Street were positioned in the same era as the construction of the 9th Avenue barn, I would say that a loop was possible. I have absolutely no memory of Brooklyn PCC's backing up, a tricky manoeuver on a yard lead. Yet all the photos show the PCC's there nose out, ready for duty. |
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Re: Was there a loop inside the B&QT 9th Ave carbarn? |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Aug 15 15:42:59 2020, in response to Re: Was there a loop inside the B&QT 9th Ave carbarn?, posted by Joe on Sat Aug 15 13:57:44 2020. Not only that but prior to the PCCs many of the routes operating out of that carhouse used 6000 series cars which were also single ended. |
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