BMT Canarsie LineGrade Crossing

[hounslow3]

> "Phil Kane" <Phil.Kane@nov.shmovz.ka.pop> wrote in message
> news:ev0e05h6kpe7r72k40nbrq14qosud8udoo@********...
>> The April 2009 photo on the NYC Subways calendar shows a BMT Standard
>> approaching the East 105th Street Canarsie grade crossing - the only
>> one in the system at that time "back when".
>>
>> As pre-teens, we would go there many Sundays with our dad just to
>> watch the trains and the gates. Once the operator (who was also the
>> change booth agent) let me lower the pedestrian gates! A thrill for a
>> 10 year old. I remember the signaling procedure very well.

How was the gate operated? Could you tell the URL of the photo you
mentioned?

[Vince]

<hounslow3**********.uk> wrote in message
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>> "Phil Kane" <Phil.Kane@nov.shmovz.ka.pop> wrote in message
>> news:ev0e05h6kpe7r72k40nbrq14qosud8udoo@********...
>>> The April 2009 photo on the NYC Subways calendar shows a BMT Standard
>>> approaching the East 105th Street Canarsie grade crossing - the only
>>> one in the system at that time "back when".
>>>
>>> As pre-teens, we would go there many Sundays with our dad just to
>>> watch the trains and the gates. Once the operator (who was also the
>>> change booth agent) let me lower the pedestrian gates! A thrill for a
>>> 10 year old. I remember the signaling procedure very well.
>
> How was the gate operated? Could you tell the URL of the photo you
> mentioned?

I recall it being automatic anyone else know?
My pals and I used to go to Canarsie pier every weekend to fish or crab,
anyway I always knew that
it was inertia that got the train across. My friend calmed there was power
in the tracks that did it,
now that would be silly to put something on a train just for one stop.

[Phil Kane]

On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:59:17 -0400, "Gerald Levy"
<bwaylimited@************> wrote:

> Free transfers between the Canarsie line and the streetcar shuttle
>were offered at Rockaway Parkway, a practice that continues to this day. In
>1951, the B42 bus line replaced the streetcars and the right of way was
>paved over.

In 1988 I noticed that the asphalt was wearing rather thin and the
trackage on Rockaway Parkway near Glenwood Road was starting to show
through! I would hope that it has been taken up or repaved in the
intervening 20 years.
--

"Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please"

Phil Kane - Beaverton, OR
PNW Beburg MP 28.0 - OE District

[Vince]

"Phil Kane" <Phil.Kane@nov.shmovz.ka.pop> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:59:17 -0400, "Gerald Levy"
> <bwaylimited@************> wrote:
>
>> Free transfers between the Canarsie line and the streetcar shuttle
>>were offered at Rockaway Parkway, a practice that continues to this day.
>>In
>>1951, the B42 bus line replaced the streetcars and the right of way was
>>paved over.
>
> In 1988 I noticed that the asphalt was wearing rather thin and the
> trackage on Rockaway Parkway near Glenwood Road was starting to show
> through! I would hope that it has been taken up or repaved in the
> intervening 20 years.
> --
>
For many years one could still see the trackage on Mc Donald Ave (1983 to
about 1990 something) till at last they were covered.
Why did they wait so long?

[Phil Kane]

On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:20:51 -0400, "J.R.Guthrie"
<jguthrie@pipeline.com> wrote:

>c1965 or so (I have a copy somewhere) he super - imposed a photo of the
>crossing on top of a photo of the United Nations, with a headline "Second
>Aven Subway Completed" with an elaborate description as to how the TA had
>laid tracks o the surface one night "just to get it done!" but because of
>street traffic, northbound trains ran on First Avenue and Southbound trains
>ran on Second Avenue.

Transit malls around the country (if not the world) use the same
scheme. Two weeks from now, the new one in downtown Portland (6th Ave
northbound, 5th Ave southbound) will open, providing a MAX light rail
connection to Portland Union Station where one can take Amtrak to New
York with a single change in Chicago (did that, liked it).

It took more than one night to get the work done, however. It was on
that constructions site that I tripped and broke my arm and shoulder
in October 2007.
--

"Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please"

Phil Kane - Beaverton, OR
PNW Beburg MP 28.0 - OE District

[Phil Kane]

On Mon, 11 May 2009 15:03:19 -0400, "Vince" <vpilutis@**************>
wrote:

>Trains in the steets, sorry I never got to see it.
>All the years I lived near Flushing Ave, and I never saw that either.

When I moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, I was always amazed to see
freight trains complete with cabooses running at night in the middle
of Santa Monica Blvd., a main street near UCLA where I was going to
grad school. These weren't old streetcar tracks, either! Long gone
now.

I wonder whether the LIRR on Atlantic Avenue ran in the street or in a
private R-O-W (what they call a "reserve" in New Orleans) before the
street was elevated over it.
--

"Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please"

Phil Kane - Beaverton, OR
PNW Beburg MP 28.0 - OE District

[Vince]

"Phil Kane" <Phil.Kane@nov.shmovz.ka.pop> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 11 May 2009 15:03:19 -0400, "Vince" <vpilutis@**************>
> wrote:
>
>>Trains in the steets, sorry I never got to see it.
>>All the years I lived near Flushing Ave, and I never saw that either.

I almost forgot, recall that bit a few years back where a car took off by
itself on Flushing Ave?
Sorry I didn't see that one


> When I moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, I was always amazed to see
> freight trains complete with cabooses running at night in the middle
> of Santa Monica Blvd., a main street near UCLA where I was going to
> grad school. These weren't old streetcar tracks, either! Long gone
> now.
>
> I wonder whether the LIRR on Atlantic Avenue ran in the street or in a
> private R-O-W (what they call a "reserve" in New Orleans) before the
> street was elevated over it.
> --
>
> "Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please"
>
> Phil Kane - Beaverton, OR
> PNW Beburg MP 28.0 - OE District
>