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This photo was taken through the storm doors of a moving (N) train operating on the West End Line in Brooklyn, due to construction on its own Sea Beach Line. Still here there is more construction. We are running on the middle track, a Track Inspection train is running to the right of us on the North Bound track, and a Work train is approaching us on the South Bound Track. Vision is obscured due to dirt on the windows, and by the special window on the inside storm door that limits lateral vision through the window, and also eliminates light from the car from the motorman's position.
Maybe it's just me...but since this thread's mostly about transit/light rail...shouldn't it be in the Transit section?
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Hmmm.... THIS is where the moderator put it. I started it on the Model Railroad section.
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Good to see you back from your Cat Nap as I was having withdrawals of not seeing your photos...
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I was riding this (A) train about to cross the Jamaica Bay to the Rockaways. But the signal would not clear. He got permission from control to go down on to the tracks to clear the tripper, but it would not stay down. He got permission to hook it down, and we continued to the rockaways, meanwhile signal maintainers got on the job and were flagging trains through the signal while making whatever repairs it was that they had to make.
I was looking at some of you pics and a thought for fun.
A couple of weeks ago in the quiz forum in Classic Trains the question was to name all the possible routings one could use from Stillwell Av/ Coney Island to Archer Av/ Jamacia.
What I remembered was the car float connection you took some pics of. ]
Anyway the routing I posted was this: Sea Beach Line to 9th Av. Thence thru the freight connection to the dock. Then a car float to the LIRR Long Island City dock then the LIRR to Jamacia.
Hope this isn't too off topic.
Thx IGN
The LION must have been hiding under a cabbage leaf... and they went and changed the format of the forum on him. Oh well, here are some pics from this summer.
On the Bridge of the USS R-32 sailing across the Jamaica Bay.
OK, this interlocking is most intriguing but I'm not recognizing it...I imagine it to be somehwere in Brooklyn near Stillwell Ave....please identify your pics when posting.
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'tis no where near Stilwell, albeit in the same county.
Try 9th Avenue / 39th Street on the west end line. You are looking west, the ramps going up lead to the 36th Street Yard formerly the Fifth Avenue Line. Now service moves down and onto the 4th Avenue line.
I am standing on the upper level platforms, below me are the platforms that used to go to the Culver line, and more lately the Culver Shuttle, now also kaput. Lower level is used for yard moves, and the Garbage train accesses it's platforms from this level east of the station.
I have no remembrance of where I took this one... It does not matter.
With your clues, mapquest and google maps satellite pics, and some YouTube train rides I found...it is looking north (or west) from the 9th St Station on the D Line with the D line trains going straight under and the far ramps leading to 36th St. yard, the two lower tracks in the foreground coming from what appears to be a maintenance of way yard at 39th St.. Gonna try to get there this Friday if possible....
Yes, the (D) train. LION is old enough to remember when there were no letters, thus him called it the "West End Line". The Lower Level was the old "Culver" line before it was cut and connected to the IND at Church.
The ramps up indeed do go to the yard, the second set of ramps were putatively for the Fifth Avenue El, there is some discussion if there ever were tracks on them. People seem to remember getting to the El via the yard tracks. It is just a station now, but once upon a time it was the hub of south Brooklyn.
On the lower level tracks as they fade out of the distance will turn right onto the Fourth Avenue Subway, but there is a connection that continues west to the waterfront, again it is unclear if it used to connect to the SBR or not, or if there are plans for such a connection now. The tracks west of Third Avenue are in very good condition, and looks like they are being maintained.
This photo is standing on 4th Avenue looking west:
This Photo was taken on Third Avenue looking East, a (D) train can be seen in the distance.
This Photo was taken from Second Avenue looking east:
From the same place looking west.
In planning my trip to there...it turns out the D trains are going to Coney Island on the N train route (Sea Beach Line) so we have to go to New Utrecht Ave for transfer to D train to 9th! But if we have enough time, maybe go all the way to Stillwell Ave before going back on the D train.
Actually we are driving from Binghamton, NY to Port Jervis for NJT/MNRR 7:46AM to Secaucus Jct to NYP to LIRR's Jamaica...then the J train to Essex St., F train to 4th Ave and 9th St, R train to 36th St., whatever from there, back to Manhatten on the D train and either find a way to Pier 11 and the ferry or to PATH station to Hoboken and back to Port Jervis by either 6:13 or 6:54PM then drive back to Bingahmton. All part of the fun of ridewithmehenry exucrsion fun!
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