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Posted by irtredbirdr33 on Wed Oct 29 08:12:36 2025 Tuscarora Almanac for October 29 1954 – from The Book of Last Runs Trains of the IND Division will take over the operation of the BMT Culver Line between Ditmas Avenue and Coney Island. The ramp between the four track Church Avenue station on the IND South Brooklyn Line and the three track Ditmas Avenue station on the BMT Culver line was finally completed. The last through BMT Culver Line train through to Coney Island ran on October 29, 1954. Thereafter the BMT ran a shuttle between Ditmas Avenue and Coney Island until about noon on October 30 at which time IND “D” trains began through service. BMT No. 5 trains were terminated at 9th Avenue over the weekend and resumed service to Ditmas Avenue on November 1, 1954. In the interim shuttle buses ran between 9th Avenue and Ditmas Avenue and between Ditmas Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway (IND). 1989 – from The Book of First Runs The 63rd Street Line between 57th Street - 6th Avenue and 21st Street - Queensbridge opens for service today. 1989 – from The Book of Special Runs The Electric Railroaders Association chartered an eight car trains of R-10’s for a “Farewell to the R-10’s” fantrip. The consist was (s)3018-3203-3182-2974-3143-3045-3145-3216 (n). The trip included a visit to Coney Island, the Franklin Avenue Shuttle and both levels of the Archer Avenue Subway. Source: New York Division ERA Bulletin / February 1990, article by Mr. William Padron 2012 – from The Book of Wrecks Superstorm Sandy, the most massive and deadly tropical cyclone of the 2012 hurricane season, strikes New York City and the surrounding area, causing severe flooding in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. Subway stations in Lower Manhattan were completely flooded, as were the PATH stations in Hoboken, NJ and Christopher St. in Greenwich Village. The high winds and storm surge on Jamaica Bay washed away large sections of the IND's Flats causeway between Howard Beach and Broad Channel. Service on the A and S lines was disrupted for several months while the right-of-way was reconstructed. To mitigate this disruption, NYCT trailered several R-32 trainsets to the Rockaway Peninsula for H shuttle service between Far Rockaway and Beach 90th Street. On Long Island, the LIRR Long Beach Branch saw flooding at the Wreck Lead Bridge, which connects Island Park with Long Beach, when Reynolds Channel overtopped the rails. Other sections of the LIRR, especially on the East Forks of Long Island, were also flooded. Staten Island Railway service was also severely impacted, especially at the Tottenville end of the line, which sits right on the water's edge. Many NJ Transit cars and locomotives being stored at the agency's Meadowlands Maintenance Complex (MMC) in Kearny, NJ, suffered water damage when the low-lying facility was inundated by floodwaters. PATH train service was suspended between Hoboken and the railroad's other terminals while a prolonged dewatering operation was carried out. Damage remediation on various sections of the NYCT system went on for several years after the storm, most notably in the Montague Street and 14th Street tunnels of the BMT R and L lines. Repairs to the Montague tunnel actually changed its structure gauge, effectively banning prewar museum cars from using it thereafter. Sources: NYT, NYTM, Passenger Train Journal, NBC News Archives, various contemporary accounts, personal first-hand experience. This article was written by Mr.JayZee BMT Larry, RedbirdR33 |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Wed Oct 29 09:54:31 2025, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for October 29, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Wed Oct 29 08:12:36 2025. Sandy was so massive, it hit every single state east of the Mississippi River before turning north and going through Canada before going back out onto the Atlantic. A huge blocking high caused Sandy to make its infamous left turn onto the US. Some areas didn't get power back for weeks as in addition to Sandy, another nor'easter came through 10 days later, leading for some who had just gotten power restored to lose it again. There were parts of West Virginia that got up to two feet of SNOW from that storm.Had that World Series not ended in a sweep with the baseball Giants beating the Tigers, we were looking in Detroit at a minimum of three rainouts with that Game 5 not being played until the Thursday or Friday after Game 4 had been played the previous Sunday before Sandy hit. This was the second straight year a freak storm hit like that. A year earlier in 2011, a freak snowstorm hit the northeast the last weekend in October leading to some areas getting up to a foot of snow and causing huge power outages caused by trees that still had leaves on them unable to handle that snow. Ironically, that snowstorm saw for many areas their biggest snowfall of the entire winter as the winter of 2011-'12 happened to be the mildest on record with the temps not even falling below freezing many nights that winter. |
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Posted by jan k. lorenzen on Wed Oct 29 11:01:57 2025, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for October 29, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Wed Oct 29 08:12:36 2025. Superstorm Sandy also flooded the four BHRA PCC's down in Red hook up to the belt line on cars 70, 3321, 3299 (outside on street track) and up to the headlight on 3303 on raised track in the warehouse, filling their trucks and electrical gear with salted east river swill water. |
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