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Posted by handbrake on Sun Feb 6 22:14:58 2011, in response to Re: 76st what happened?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Feb 6 17:50:23 2011. The following is an interesting aside to the great debate of the 76th Street Queens subway station. When construction of the Second Avenue subway was halted in the mid 1970's, NYCT maintained the completed sections of subway tunnel, and conducted periodic inspections of the tunnels by agency structural engineers.This information having been supplied by a NYCT Telephone Maintainer who performed routines on both emergency alarm (EA), and emergency telephones boxes throughout the subway system. All completed Second Avenue subway tunnel segments were equipped with emergency telephone call boxes that were maintained by NYCT MoW personnel. If there was a subway tunnel that led to a station at 76th Street, NYCT would have been obligated to inspect, and maintain the structural integrity of the subway segment under debate, and include at a minimum emergency telephone call boxes along the ROW. This past week I had a discussion regarding sealed tunnel segments with a NYCT CPM structures engineer at 2 Broadway. With the resulting answer being that there are plenty of abandoned underground areas in the transit system that have been sealed off over the years. Personally, based on available public photos, and discussion by many in this forum, I believe that tracks A1 through A4 end at a subway tunnel bulkhead wall. The cinder/cement block wall found on the Pitkin yard track leads appears to fuel the speculation of a station/ or station shell in the vicinity of 76th Street Queens. My statement will certainly not end any of the detailed discussions, theories, or and suppositions. However it does make for both good reading, and sidebar information from many site contributors. |
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