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GENERAL ORDER NUMBER 216 OF EMPLOYE TIME TABLE
NUMBER TWO DESCRIBES THE ABANDONMENT:
THE FINAL PUBLIC TIMETABLE
POCKET TIMETABLES AND TICKETS
NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT PROVIDED BUS SERVICE
WHEN GRADE CROSSINGS WERE ELIMINATED IN THE EARLY 1940'S THE RAILROAD WAS PLACED ON A CONCRETE VIADUCT. AT FAR ROCKAWAY THE STRUCTURE WAS STEEL TO ALLOW EASY REMOVAL WHEN THE LONG DISCUSSED TAKEOVER BY NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT WAS ACCOMPLISHED. THIS TRAIN OF MP54'S IS PASSING THE CLOSED "ROCK" TOWER AND APPROACHING FAR ROCKAWAY STATION.
FAR ROCKAWAY - LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD AND IND TRAINS.
FRANK AVENUE STATION EDGEMERE
FOLLOWING THE 1950 TRESTLE FIRE ALL ROCKAWAY PARK TRAINS HAD TO RUN TO JAMAICA VIA VALLEY STREAM. THIS MEANT EASTWARD AND WESTWARD TRAINS SHARED THE SINGLE TRACK SOUTH LEG OF HAMMELS WYE. THE WEST AND EAST LEGS WERE ABANDONED AND A CABIN - "DRAW" - WAS PLACED AT THE GEOGRAPHIC EAST END OF THE SOUTH LEG TO OPERATE THE HAND THROWN SWITCHES AND INTERLOCKED SIGNALS. AUTOMATIC TRAIN STOPS - "TRIPPERS" - WERE INSTALLED AT THE HOME SIGNALS. THIS MAP ACCOMPANIED 1950 GENERAL ORDERS NUMBERS 1729 AND 1901.
"DRAW" CABIN AND SUB-STATION NUMBER FIVE
CROSS BAY BOULEVARD
HOLLAND STATION LOOKING GEOGRAPHICALLY EAST
TOWARD DRAW CABIN'S WESTBOUND HOME SIGNAL
PLAYLAND STATION
SEASIDE STATION - A GRAVITY OPERATED RAILROAD AT THE RIGHT
ROCKAWAY PARK - HALF THE YARD ALREADY TORN UP
NORTH OF JAMAICA BAY
AN AQUEDUCT RACE TRAIN FROM FLATBUSH AVENUE TERMINAL LEAVES THE ATLANTIC AVENUE TUNNEL AND ENTERS "OZONE" INTERLOCKING IN JUNE 1955. "OZONE" INTERLOCKING CLOSED OCTOBER 3, 1955.
TRAINS CONTINUED TO SERVE OZONE PARK UNTIL 1962
AQUEDUCT STATION AND RACE TRACK
A BLOCK OPERATOR AT "RACE" HANDLED THE CROSSOVER SWITCHES FOR RACE TRAINS
LOOKING NORTH AT HOWARD BEACH STATION
RACE TRAINS LAID UP AT HAMILTON BEACH
THE CLOSED "BEACH" TOWER - ORIGINALLY NUMBER 93 THEN "WD".
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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ALL PHOTOGRAPHS BY W. J. (BILL) RUGEN PUBLIC TIMETABLES AND TICKETS PRESERVED BY BILL SLADE. |
GENERAL ORDER NUMBER 216 OF EMPLOYE TIME TABLE
NUMBER TWO DESCRIBES THE ABANDONMENT:
THE FINAL PUBLIC TIMETABLE
POCKET TIMETABLES AND TICKETS
NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT PROVIDED BUS SERVICE
WHEN GRADE CROSSINGS WERE ELIMINATED IN THE EARLY 1940'S THE RAILROAD WAS PLACED ON A CONCRETE VIADUCT. AT FAR ROCKAWAY THE STRUCTURE WAS STEEL TO ALLOW EASY REMOVAL WHEN THE LONG DISCUSSED TAKEOVER BY NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT WAS ACCOMPLISHED. THIS TRAIN OF MP54'S IS PASSING THE CLOSED "ROCK" TOWER AND APPROACHING FAR ROCKAWAY STATION.
FAR ROCKAWAY - LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD AND IND TRAINS.
FRANK AVENUE STATION EDGEMERE
FOLLOWING THE 1950 TRESTLE FIRE ALL ROCKAWAY PARK TRAINS HAD TO RUN TO JAMAICA VIA VALLEY STREAM. THIS MEANT EASTWARD AND WESTWARD TRAINS SHARED THE SINGLE TRACK SOUTH LEG OF HAMMELS WYE. THE WEST AND EAST LEGS WERE ABANDONED AND A CABIN - "DRAW" - WAS PLACED AT THE GEOGRAPHIC EAST END OF THE SOUTH LEG TO OPERATE THE HAND THROWN SWITCHES AND INTERLOCKED SIGNALS. AUTOMATIC TRAIN STOPS - "TRIPPERS" - WERE INSTALLED AT THE HOME SIGNALS. THIS MAP ACCOMPANIED 1950 GENERAL ORDERS NUMBERS 1729 AND 1901.
"DRAW" CABIN AND SUB-STATION NUMBER FIVE
CROSS BAY BOULEVARD
HOLLAND STATION LOOKING GEOGRAPHICALLY EAST
TOWARD DRAW CABIN'S WESTBOUND HOME SIGNAL
PLAYLAND STATION
SEASIDE STATION - A GRAVITY OPERATED RAILROAD AT THE RIGHT
ROCKAWAY PARK - HALF THE YARD ALREADY TORN UP
NORTH OF JAMAICA BAY
AN AQUEDUCT RACE TRAIN FROM FLATBUSH AVENUE TERMINAL LEAVES THE ATLANTIC AVENUE TUNNEL AND ENTERS "OZONE" INTERLOCKING IN JUNE 1955. "OZONE" INTERLOCKING CLOSED OCTOBER 3, 1955.
TRAINS CONTINUED TO SERVE OZONE PARK UNTIL 1962
AQUEDUCT STATION AND RACE TRACK
A BLOCK OPERATOR AT "RACE" HANDLED THE CROSSOVER SWITCHES FOR RACE TRAINS
LOOKING NORTH AT HOWARD BEACH STATION
RACE TRAINS LAID UP AT HAMILTON BEACH
THE CLOSED "BEACH" TOWER - ORIGINALLY NUMBER 93 THEN "WD".