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Posted by SMAZ on Fri Feb 4 16:40:05 2011, in response to Re: 76st what happened?, posted by Randyo on Fri Feb 4 16:26:39 2011. the mainline tracks of the Fulton St Subway are at least 3 levels below the street.Agreed but those locations are basically on a hill overlooking the Spring Creek flood plain. For the trackway to not decline too steeply, it makes sense that any tunnel east of Elderts would not have been as deep as that west of it. Considering that the merges with the yard leads would have meant two levels anyway and that Pitkin was raised (when it was joined with Old South Road), it would have made sense that the upper level would have been not much deeper than the raised road. It would have then dropped down to the main tracks and that upper level would have made way for the 76 St Station mezzanine. Under such cirmustances, the shell should have been visible in the 1951 photos. Having it any deeper than that would have entailed a dramatic incline for both the main tracks and the yard leads starting just east of Euclid Av. |
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