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Posted by randyo on Sat Nov 23 03:07:42 2024, in response to Re: Guess The Location...easy peasy (maybe), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Thu Nov 21 17:42:52 2024. First, the shuttles from both Flushing and Astoria were BMT only since BMT steel cars were too wide for the IRT which was the principal operator of both lines. Prior to the 1939 World’s fair the switching arrangement at Qnsbro Plz was such that arriving shuttles from Flushing and Astoria had the go back to the other line’s terminals. After 1939 with the opening of the fair, the switches at the plaza were rearranged so that each shuttle could operate independently of the other an arrangement that lasted until 1949 when the platforms on the Astoria Line were cut back and through trains of BMT steel cars could operate there giving the Astoria Line exclusively to the BMT and the Flushing Line exclusively to the IRT. Of course since both former privates were now city owned the revenue from both lines was now going to the same place. |
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