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Large scale. Lawn art. The only real RR parts are the lenses, pinnacle, pivot and "B" head which is a PL-3. The ladder came off a fertilizer wagon, the mast is made from pipe I found at the junk yard, the spectacle and blade are made of Lexan and the lighting is with solar powered LED gard...

If my memory serves me correctly, the MTA did at one time operate a "round-robin" route that served both the Rockaway Park and Far Rockaway branches, using all three legs of the wye. I don't remember if it was simply the A train at late night, or a separate shuttle-type service. Yes, corr...

Not put up or endorsed by ARRTS, but here it is.

http://ltvsquad.gasaxeart.com/arrts.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY5lo-Z0ERw

No trucks on it. It's just sitting on jack stands collecting graffiti.

Anybody know anything about this car?

Regarding this thread on SubChat: http://www.subchat.com/read.asp?Id=1027802 I'm just going to say that this isn't going to turn into the circus that Bob Diamond's Atlantic Ave Tunnel turned into. We're not going to say much else although something that came to mind on discovery of this is a quote t...

The wiki page says that "retired trains" were parked in the south end of the tunnel when not in use in the 80s. What trains are they referring to? There were a number of bad order freight cars down there. Nothing exciting. Just crap put their to get it out of the way. In 1980, I walked th...

hi55us wrote:never heard of guided tours,

I can't imagine they would be thrilled with a tunnel of that size being insecure. It's been insecure for years. In the 80's it was a major homeless camp. More recently people have been going so far as to take people on for-hire tours of the tunnel without Amtrak's knowledge or consent. There have b...

So what's up with Amtrak's latest push to clean-up the West 30th Street Branch*? They're going over the holes in the fences with heavy grating and even painting over ALL the graffiti in the tunnels. Some of those murals have been there since the 1970's. I wonder what the sudden urgency is. *I'm a Pe...

Dig the Myrtle Ave el in the background!


East end

http://arrts-arrchives.com/evgrn2.html

West End

http://arrts-arrchives.com/evgrn3.html

I just uploaded that Emery map to the Rockaway Beach Branch maps page of my website. Here's the direct link to that particular map http://www.lirrhistory.com/jan2010/rbmetmyrt.jpg Bob Andersen Thanks! That's the one I was looking for. Also a general thanks for scanning and hosting the other Emery t...

Does anybody have a scan of the Bob Emery track diagram that shows the trackwork (switches and signals) related to the connection between the Montauk and Rockaway Branches? The online collections of Bob Emery track diagrams seem to be missing this location. You can see the right of way of the connec...

Where the substation is? Ive been down there a hundred times, the only ROW down there I know of is the one there now. I very well could be missing something though. Maps going back to 61' show a single track, curving north, just like the one thats still there. 66' Freight book does not show a wye e...

Wow – what great photos on the LTV website. You guys are intrepid to go down in there. One of the guys on the 2008 outing called it: "truly disgusting" and that guy likes to explore sewers for fun. The East New York tunnel on the Bay Ridge Branch is a "walk in the park" compared...