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Posted by Brighton Private on Thu Oct 21 14:01:24 2010, in response to Re: LIRR Westbridge Station, posted by Qveensboro_Plaza on Tue Mar 2 08:54:24 2010. In that same photo, you can still see the ash dump, owned, I believe, by the Brooklyn Ash Removal Company, made famous by "The Great Gatsby" and eventually the location of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs and Flushing Meadow Park.If you look closely at the ROW of the Bay Ridge Branch, you will see Brooklyn Ash Removal facilities at several points, where ash was collected and loaded on hopper cars for the trip to the dump. One of them is at the Vanderveer Yard, adjacent to the team tracks. And while we're on the subject, check out Arrts-Arrchives for some amazing newly posted pictures of the electrification of the Bay Ridge Branch, the post-passenger service modifications of Manhattan Beach Junction, and its sad decline from a four-track line to its current state. |
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