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Posted by renee gil on Tue Aug 6 19:56:11 2013, in response to Re: Seinfeld Subway Episode, posted by randyo on Mon Aug 5 15:34:07 2013. speaking of 63rd drive, there is a turn-off provision off the D1 Track (Mahattan-bound local) east of the station. This turnoff ramps up to an upper level. It crosses over the existing IND Queens Blvd Subway to curve south, and ends at the edge of the line under Queens Blvd. Well over the years, I've ridden on the eastbound R, GG/G, N, EE and V lines between Roosevelt Avenue and 71st-Continental many times and have seen the turnouts at from the railfan window. I can't recall the exact area, but I know that at least one of the turnouts is very short and comes to a wall perhaps 40ft away from the main line (I believe its the one next to the D2 Track), and, interestingly, even has an emergency exit that was built into the wall that curves away from the main line. The other one goes a little longer. I've read somewhere that one of the tunnels continues as far as 66th Avenue. As I said, it does go a little longer than the other one. These were obviously turnouts intended for lines to be built later, which of course, never were. That emergency exit where the tunnel first turns off.At the 63rd Drive station the structure at the end of the Jamaica/Forest Hills bound end was to be a tower. This structure supposed to be the tower for the proposed Rockaway Line connection. |
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