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I'm thinking Floral Park (was Re: Babylon Grade Crossing Eliminations Re: Where is this...74) |
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Posted by Charles G on Tue Jun 9 15:10:50 2009, in response to Re: Babylon Grade Crossing Eliminations Re: Where is this...74, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jun 9 13:16:29 2009. I don't think it can possibly be Freeport.The train is heading west (the shadows give that away). The next station west of Freeport is Baldwin, which is a mile away -- with 7 road crossings in between. The station in the photo is much closer -- with seemingly no road crossings in between, or perhaps just one. The same problem exists at most Babylon stations as they are too far apart to see the next station west (with the exception of Massapequa to Massapequa Park and Merrick to Bellmore -- both of which were elevated when the M1's were around). My money is on Floral Park -- with the station to the west being the new island platform station at Bellerose. The photo is taken just west of where the Carnation Avenue overpass is today. Go to Google Maps and look at the intersection of Carnation Avenue and Atlantic Avenue in Floral Park. Just west of Carnation, there is a cement retaining wall that is the same height as in the photo (even the same number of horizontal grooves), then there is a high tension line tower (same location as in the photo) and then the cement retaining wall ends (as it does in the photo). When they elevated Floral Park, I'm assuming that they realigned the Hempstead tracks to the south of the new station and the main line tracks to the north and build the elevated station in the middle -- which would explain why there are two tracks and not four in the photo. My guess is that the platform we see is a temporary platform built just for the elevation project. The temporary Hempstead tracks are going right down what is today Atlantic Avenue. CG |
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