101st Avenue - Ozone Park old to the new ...lol
Above, the view southbound of the elevated Ozone Park Station at 101st Avenue of the long defunct Long Island Railroad Rockaway Line Dead Tracks. While the platform level is every bit the dead in Dead Track, at street level the elevated structure is still very much alive, if understandably seedy looking, with a host of parts suppliers and similar rust-belt type operations firmly ensconced in the warrens beneath the platform.
This station hails from the beginning of the great depression, so perhaps it was destined to a depressing life, if the word life can even be used. It was the first elevated station going south towards the Rockaways. The next two stations before Rockaway are raised platform, at Aqueduct Raceway, and surface level, at Broad Channel, both living integral parts of the NYC subway system sine 1956, as are the elevated stations in Rockaway proper. The Rockaway elevated section and its stations are concrete faced like the short Ozone Park elevated section, albeit with more of a Mission style flavor.
Ozone Park is the last dead stop on the Dead Tracks before they stop being Dead Tracks. A block to the south, just a bit past the end of the ghostly platform, the Rockaway bound subway splits off from the Liberty Avenue elevated and merges into the only part of the Rockaway Line to be offered a job when the LIRR began to abandon it in stages following a disastrous fire that wiped out the old wooden viaduct carrying the tracks across Jamaica Bay. The Transit Authority acquired the Rockaway Line south of Liberty Avenue for a song from the bankrupt LIRR, rebuilt the viaduct and connected the tracks south of Liberty to the subway system in 1956. Six years later, the truncated line north of Liberty was shut down.
This station hails from the beginning of the great depression, so perhaps it was destined to a depressing life, if the word life can even be used. It was the first elevated station going south towards the Rockaways. The next two stations before Rockaway are raised platform, at Aqueduct Raceway, and surface level, at Broad Channel, both living integral parts of the NYC subway system sine 1956, as are the elevated stations in Rockaway proper. The Rockaway elevated section and its stations are concrete faced like the short Ozone Park elevated section, albeit with more of a Mission style flavor.
Ozone Park is the last dead stop on the Dead Tracks before they stop being Dead Tracks. A block to the south, just a bit past the end of the ghostly platform, the Rockaway bound subway splits off from the Liberty Avenue elevated and merges into the only part of the Rockaway Line to be offered a job when the LIRR began to abandon it in stages following a disastrous fire that wiped out the old wooden viaduct carrying the tracks across Jamaica Bay. The Transit Authority acquired the Rockaway Line south of Liberty Avenue for a song from the bankrupt LIRR, rebuilt the viaduct and connected the tracks south of Liberty to the subway system in 1956. Six years later, the truncated line north of Liberty was shut down.
No comments:
Post a Comment