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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Wed Oct 22 09:23:16 2025 The station in the distance appears to be an express station. That should be a clue. The familiarity of the buildings may be another clue. So what line is this and what is the distant station ?
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Posted by Connecticut-Astoria* on Wed Oct 22 10:22:44 2025, in response to [PHOTO] Where Art Thou ?, posted by Bill Newkirk on Wed Oct 22 09:23:16 2025.* #6 Pelham Line. Looking west from Castle Hill Av. towards Parkchester station. Link below at Pugsley Ave. showing supports for tower above:
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Posted by Bill Newkirk* on Wed Oct 22 12:49:29 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Where Art Thou ?, posted by Connecticut-Astoria on Wed Oct 22 10:22:44 2025.* Thank you. Bill M.
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Posted by Pelham Exp* on Wed Oct 22 15:46:02 2025, in response to [PHOTO] Where Art Thou ?, posted by Bill Newkirk on Wed Oct 22 09:23:16 2025.* When I interned I wanted to go in that tower but was nixed. So I got to spend some time in the dispatchers office at Parkchester. Anyone have photos of the inside of that tower and what area did it cover? Im guessing it controlled the signal on Track M from Zerega (where they layed up trains to the switches shown in the Tower.
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Posted by Bill Newkirk* on Wed Oct 22 19:04:08 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Where Art Thou ?, posted by Pelham Exp on Wed Oct 22 15:46:02 2025.* Sorry, I don't have any tower interior images. Bill M.
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Posted by randyo* on Fri Oct 24 03:03:19 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Where Art Thou ?, posted by Pelham Exp on Wed Oct 22 15:46:02 2025.* Back in the old IRT days, the towers only controlled the switches in the immediate area. The Parkchester tower only controlled those switches in the photo and 2 others out of the view of the photo between the N/B llcl tks and the middle tk.
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Posted by Pelham Exp* on Tue Oct 28 20:11:41 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Where Art Thou ?, posted by randyo on Fri Oct 24 03:03:19 2025.* Thanks.. My question back to you then is they laid up 5 trains on Track M from Zerega to Westchester Sq pre the 1996 resignaling of the Pelham Line These were Parkchester put ins Who controlled the signal on track M right before the curve into Castle Hill? Wouldn't that had to be a home signal? If I remember correctly Same situation On Track M at Buhre Av they laid up trains there as well who controlled that Tower at Pelham Bay.. Those signals weren't automatic unless there was G.O and they were running through service on them.
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Re: [PHOTO] Where Art Thou ?
Posted by randyo* on Wed Oct 29 00:19:48 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Where Art Thou ?, posted by Pelham Exp on Tue Oct 28 20:11:41 2025.* The IRT had a few vagaries in its signal system that I am not entirely familiar with. I do recall that pn the Bway Line, trains that laid up from V/C went south on the middle as far ad Dyckman, yet went back north on the middle to be put in at A/C so something similar might have been the case on the Pelham line N/O Parkchester.
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Re: [PHOTO] Where Art Thou ?
Posted by randyo* on Thu Oct 30 02:50:07 2025, in response to Re: [PHOTO] Where Art Thou ?, posted by randyo on Wed Oct 29 00:19:48 2025.* That “A/C” should read “V/C."
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