Out with the old wooden ties and in with panels of concrete ties
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Ben Where is that ??
Definitely the Rockaway Park Branch of the NYC Subway - looks like the pictures were taken between the wye and the Beach 60th street station or so.
-John
Ben I felt a lot better when I saw the pictures. When you said out with the old I was wondering if that might have ment you
Thanks for sharing the pictures with us.
This is the stretch from Hamel's Wye toward Rock Park
The thing that's different about the structure in the Rockaways is that it is concrete and not open lattice. There is ballast all along it You can see the piles of the old ballast under the structure in one of the pics
NICE PICS BEN.
Ben, are you trying to get rid of us old guy's?
'Out with the old"
Love that sectional track! The ties are shaped kind of like "reverse Super-O" ties! 
I guess that means the snow does not fall through
Originally Posted by bluelinec4:
The thing that's different about the structure in the Rockaways is that it is concrete and not open lattice. There is ballast all along it You can see the piles of the old ballast under the structure in one of the pics
It was originally LIRR elevated, similar to the mainline concrete elevated LIRR you see in the older sections like around Valley Stream.
Originally Posted by Jan K. Lorenzen:
It was originally LIRR elevated, similar to the mainline concrete elevated LIRR you see in the older sections like around Valley Stream.
Yes this was LIRR right of way before the IND took it over. There was a plan to continue using abandoned LIRR right of way after Leberty Ave to connect to the Queens Blvd line. The plan was part of what they called the second IND. Besides that one there were plans to extend the Hillside ave line to the Nassau border, the J/Z from Parsons Archer to the Nassau border, a line down Nostrand ave to Emmons ave, Utica ave line extended to Ave U, The Astoria line extended into LaGuardia, a line from Church ave down Ft Hamilton Pkwy and into Staten Island
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Those are great pics....thanks for sharing!
---Greg
