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Re: Possible Major Evidence of Tunnel To 76TH STREET! |
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Posted by randyo on Tue Jul 14 19:33:10 2020, in response to Re: Possible Major Evidence of Tunnel To 76TH STREET!, posted by HANDBRAKE on Tue Jul 14 15:07:33 2020. It was standard practice on the IND to have a short section of straight track with a bumping block wherever a track on a downgrade merged with another line. You’ll find that on K2 tk S/O Euclid, B5 Tk N/O 50/6 and on C7 Yd Lead S/O 205 St and if built A7 N/O 76 St. A similar “safety spur” does not exist on B4 tk S/O 59 St since that ramp is upgrade with less chance of an accidental switch run through. The thing about the apocryphy of 76 St is that the several people I have spoken to who claim to have seen it all describe it the same way and they didn’t really have any occasion to get together to compare stories. When I was a trainmaster in 1983/84, I happened to have been looking through the emergency exit book in the command center and saw that there were 2 emergency exits shown that were about midway between Euclid and where 76 St should be.When the late trainmaster George Abere and I checked out the area, both below and above ground, there was no evidence of either of those emergency exits being there even though they were listed in the book. What we did notice though was that between the time we first examined the are in late 1962 and the time in 1984, extensive street reconstruction and paving had been done which would have obliterated anything that might have been there. We did notice a manhole cover in the middle of Pitkin Ave that was what we estimated to be a bout a half a block east of where the underground concrete wall would be. When I returned to that spot in 2005 after my mother passed away, The street had again been repaved and that manhole was no longer there. Also when George and I examined the A7 and A8 yard leads in 1962, there was still rail in the tunnels and the home signals protecting the switches that had been removed sometime before were still illuminated and the tunnels ended in unfinished mounds of black earth. When we returned in 1984, the rails had been removed and cinder block walls had been erected where non existed earlier. The only thing I regret is that when I visited Pitkin Yd tower, I never bothered to check to see if there were any traces of the yard leads on the model board that would have indicated how far those leads actually went before they were taken out of service the way 76 St is shown on Euclid’s board. It is known that when the switches were still in place some yard moves were made into those tks but I never found out how many cars they could hold before they were removed. |
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