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Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch aka The Dead Tracks |
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Posted by Train Man Paul : Metro-North's Best Conductor FOR ALL 3 LINES!!! on Sun Nov 28 22:07:55 2010, in response to Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch aka The Dead Tracks, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sun Nov 28 22:06:31 2010. And on a concrete structure ready to crumble!!! I heard word they wanna start tearing it down, especially over 101st Avenue, which even I have seen, is starting to fall apart something awful. |
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Posted by Joe V on Mon Nov 29 17:59:52 2010, in response to Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch aka The Dead Tracks, posted by Train Man Paul : Metro-North's Best Conductor FOR ALL 3 LINES!!! on Sun Nov 28 22:07:55 2010. Most active LIRR stations built during the same era have been replaced as they were falling apart in the 1980's and 1990s'. These are no different.Can't help but notice the similarities in the canopies in Woodhaven Jct and Locust Manor. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Nov 30 00:11:47 2010, in response to Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch aka The Dead Tracks, posted by Joe V on Mon Nov 29 17:59:52 2010. Yes, Locust Manor had similar light fixtures too. They must have been built around the same time. |
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Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch aka The Dead Tracks |
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Posted by NYRailman on Wed Mar 2 14:34:55 2011, in response to Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch aka The Dead Tracks, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Fri Nov 26 00:22:28 2010. I do have some recent pics from last year, mostly taken from street level in some spots as I was riding my bike along the route when I took them. The only exceptions being around the location of the Glendale cut-off which was pretty easy to access while on a bike and from the southernmost portion of Forest Park at Park Lane South. I didn't include those because as you've mentioned above those 20 years have made a huge difference. I climbed the embankment to the tracks and when I took some photos there really wasn't any room to manuever around and get any kind of noteworthy shot. The plant growth was so thick (I made the mistake of doing this in the beginning of the summer season) that it looked like I was standing in someone's garden in a backyard! The particular section of track that I stood in was just before the overpass on Park Lane South and had experienced really bad washouts of the railbed foundation over the years - I'm talking at least 2 feet deep in some places. I'll post what pics that I can soon. |
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Posted by Edwards! on Wed Mar 2 16:16:14 2011, in response to Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch aka The Dead Tracks, posted by Broadway Lion on Thu Oct 21 22:23:00 2010. I dont believe any new service ON TOP of the row will ever be built..perhaps a cut and cover or open cut line.. |
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Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch extension from the Queens IND line |
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Posted by italianstallion on Wed Mar 2 17:21:26 2011, in response to Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch extension from the Queens IND line, posted by NYRailman on Wed Oct 20 16:42:00 2010. The main problem with connecting the Rockaway line to the Queens Blvd. line would be the incredible overcrowding it would cause on that already jammed-up line. |
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Re: LIRR Westbridge Station |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Mar 2 17:30:37 2011, in response to Re: LIRR Westbridge Station, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Mar 1 22:56:28 2010. You didn't miss much. Those stations were basically dirt clearings. There were no station buildings and no platforms. |
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Re: LIRR Westbridge Station |
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Posted by r33/r36 mainline on Wed Mar 2 17:44:06 2011, in response to Re: LIRR Westbridge Station, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Mar 2 17:30:37 2011. Isn't Richmond Hill that station the (J) passes over between 121st and 111th? If so, it does have a platform, its still there to this day! It looked like it would have had nice photo opts esp with the Jamaica BMT passing overhead, oh well. I gotta explore the street level one day. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Mar 2 17:47:28 2011, in response to Re: LIRR Westbridge Station, posted by Brighton Private on Thu Oct 21 14:01:24 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."Caro talks about that ash dump in The Power Broker, in the chapters preceding Moses and his role in the city putting together the 1939 Fair. Apparently before the city started to clean up that part of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the ash removal company would dump two trainloads of ash and garbage on the site every day. (Caro maintains thathe Brooklyn Ash Removal Company had a private rail right of way through the park to the dump site. Who knows where this rail line started from or where it ran.) Apparently one of the ash piles grew into a small mountain which was called "Mount Corona". |
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Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch extension from the Queens IND line |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Thu Mar 3 00:21:27 2011, in response to Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch extension from the Queens IND line, posted by #5 - Dyre Ave on Thu Oct 21 13:49:58 2010. Actually it really wouldn't. A lot of Queens blvd people already come in off the Q53, Q11 et al, so these same people would be served. The riders from further down would probably stay on the local since they'd already have a seat. Since they're already saving ~30 minutes over the A's routing, the extra 5 minutes for the local stops is meaningless.What they could do is extend the M even further to Rockaway Park. Weekends the line could be served by the G or something. Also Woodhaven Blvd desperately needs some real rapid transit and this would help that greatly. |
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Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch extension from the Queens IND line |
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Posted by William A. Padron on Thu Mar 3 09:29:36 2011, in response to Re: LIRR Rockaway Branch extension from the Queens IND line, posted by Randyo on Thu Oct 21 16:24:39 2010. There is still one "To Jamaica and Rockaway" mosaic tablet visible, and it can seen at the westernmost stairway from the mezzanine level towards the Forest Hills-bound platform. The other two have been covered by the newer enamel signage attached on the walls.-William A. Padron [">-Rowan St->"] |
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