Lexington Avenue Line North of Grand Central around 1990
Lexington Avenue Line South of Grand Central around 1990
Streetcars and Spatial Analysis. What are your proposals for streetcars and or trolleybuses in Brooklyn and New York City? Here past trackage maps are presented and analyzed in todays environment. Geospatial analytical methods are discussed regarding new routes.
Showing posts with label IRT Subway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IRT Subway. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Lexington Avenue Line: North and South Sections, as of 1990
Source: Linder, B. In "New York Division Bulletin", Electric Railroaders' Association, Vol. 33, No. 1, January, 1990, pp. 4-5.
Lexington Avenue Line North of Grand Central around 1990
These wonderful maps by Bernard Linder show the closed stations ( 18th Street, Worth Street ) and various track changes throughout the years. Not shown are the "pony " or "baby" platforms that were closed at Brooklyn Bridge and 14th Street. These short platforms were located adjacent to the local tracks on the wall side and were since removed or closed off. They were originally built to relieve overcrowding and were found at several stations along the originally IRT subway route. The Bowling Green shuttle platform and track have been out of public service for many years already.
Lexington Avenue Line North of Grand Central around 1990
Friday, May 24, 2013
Dave Rogoff's Line Drawings of the Original IRT Subway
Source: Rogoff, David, " Contract I Platform Extensions " in "Contract I History", New York Division Bulletin, Electric Railroaders' Association, Vol. 29, Number 7, July,1986, pp. 2, 3, 5.
These line drawings, drawn by the late David Rogoff, were drawn from the original contract drawings of the first subway in New York, the IRT subway for Contracts I and II. What is interesting here, for the historian, are those original drawings that never came to see the light of day, but were amended. For example, the Borough Hall Station in Brooklyn was supposed to have three tracks with a middle express track. Provisions were made for branches to 4th Avenue in Brooklyn the Manhattan Bridge and Lafayette Avenue and the LIRR. The maps show the actually built mystery single track under Nevins Street that was supposed to lead to the Manhattan Bridge. There is an actual unused station in th lower level of Nevins Street. The drawings have a date listed as 12/13/63. Maps are not drawn to scale to show clarity. More to follow later, I hope.
These line drawings, drawn by the late David Rogoff, were drawn from the original contract drawings of the first subway in New York, the IRT subway for Contracts I and II. What is interesting here, for the historian, are those original drawings that never came to see the light of day, but were amended. For example, the Borough Hall Station in Brooklyn was supposed to have three tracks with a middle express track. Provisions were made for branches to 4th Avenue in Brooklyn the Manhattan Bridge and Lafayette Avenue and the LIRR. The maps show the actually built mystery single track under Nevins Street that was supposed to lead to the Manhattan Bridge. There is an actual unused station in th lower level of Nevins Street. The drawings have a date listed as 12/13/63. Maps are not drawn to scale to show clarity. More to follow later, I hope.
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