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Posted by Randyo on Fri Feb 4 15:05:38 2011, in response to Re: 76st what happened?, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Feb 4 14:44:15 2011. Actually, the stoppage of construction due to the war tends to lend more credence to the possibility of the line having been constructed as far as 79 St, a few blocks past the end of the station. Remember that the subway infrastructure was completed at least as far as Euclid and the yard leads as well as Pitkin Yard. The late trainmaster George Abere mentioned that he used to pass by the wall of Pitkin Yd along Linden Blvd on the way to school during WWII and always wondered what was behind it. It actually seems more logical that construction would have stopped as alleged due to the war, in the middle of nowhere rather than neatly at a place like Euclid. An old Hagstrom map shows the line to around 106 St under construction and due to open in 1943. Since it doesn't look like construction of the line S/O Rockaway Av started until unification in mid 1940, its conceivable that once \construction started on that portion of the line, it continued at a fever pace until the money ran out due to the war effort which would have been shortly after December 7, 1941. A lot of construction could have taken place in that year and a half even though the track and station finishes couldn't be completed. Bway/ENY actually was in a similar state to the way 76 St was described since the station finish was completed before the war but the rails and signals had not been installed. After the war, construction resumed on the portions of the line that were built most likely starting with the station finishes which could explain the partial station finish on only the S/B platform at 76 St. |
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