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Re: Question About The (8) Third Avenue El |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Fri Mar 5 13:54:01 2010, in response to Re: Question About The (8) Third Avenue El, posted by randyo on Mon Mar 1 12:29:53 2010. I think you're right in that the line may have previously been largely unsignalled, except for the express tracks.I've seen a pic of the Gun Hill Road segment that had semaphores in 1957- after the Manhattan portion was already gone. So, sometime after 1957, the TA installed and/or upgraded signals on the 3 Ave line...then scrapped the whole thing a relatively short time later. I've heard it said that it was MTA that decided to sacrifice the 3 Ave and Myrtle Lines, not the TA, which was planning to order R39 cars and everything, prior to the MTA's takeover. Also, the Dual Contract portion was painted in 1970. |
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