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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Jan 18 13:25:05 2006, in response to Re: Richmond Hill, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Jan 18 12:58:02 2006. Yeah, the LIRR did it's best to keep a low profile that they even had stations or local service on that line. I only knew about the Glendale or Fresh Pond stations, but that was probably because I was interested in trains. Your average people in the neighborhood had no clue there were even stations there.Fresh Pond was the "busiest" if you can call it that. It was some pit though. You walked through a narrow maze of a winding passageway from near the intersection of Metro Ave and Fres Pond Rd. That brought you to the stairways in this photo:  Now remember, these photos show an ACTIVE station. These were takin some time around 1991 or 1992. I used this station many times back then. In the winter was the strangest, as you would decend those stairs in complete darkness (when the days were short), and there you stood in the weeds waiting for your train to come. The only lighting was from the streetlights far off in the distance from Metro Ave. The silence would be broken when you would hear the horn of the train in the distance, and then finally, as the train came through the tunnel, your used to the darkness eyes would be blinded as the headlight show over the "station". There was always a fear the train may not even stop, as you would think that this "couldn't possibly be a station in the 90's", as it looked like something out of the 1920's. It was hard to believe such a service such as that was still running in the 1990's. I always loved waiting for trains there, as sometimes you would have teenagers walking along the tracks staring at these people standing at this location (it didn't even have a sign). Then their jaws would drop as they saw the train stop, and a few people get on. This photo is taken from the walkway, and the train is just leaving the Fresh Pond station after stopping, and is on it's way to Jamaica. The "platform" on the right of the train is the Jamaica bound platform. The track on the right of the "platform" is the Bushwick branch track. The "platform" on the left, is a wall platform station platform and is the LIC bound platform. And again, no, this was NOT an abandoned station at the time of this photo. This was an ACTIVE, OPEN LIRR station (of course "active" is subjective, but you know what I mean by that). 
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