JAMAICA STATION APPR 2

ARRT'S ARRCHIVES

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Copyright © 2013 Arthur John Huneke
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THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD COMPANY

ACCESSING THE NEW STATION

THE JAMAICA ELIMINATION

PART TWO

MARCH 1913 - TEMPORARY ATLANTIC DIVISION VIADUCT

OLD TRACK AT LEFT AT GROUND LEVEL WAS OPERATED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS UNTIL NEW
STATION OPENED. THEN TRACK ON WOOD VIADUCT WAS OPERATED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS.
ABSOLUTE BLOCK IN EFFECT BETWEEN CABIN FIVE (BEHIND CAMERA) AND CUMBERLAND STREET CABIN.

BEAVER STREET STATION REMAINED IN SERVICE V UNTIL THE NEW JAMAICA STATION OPENED

FROM A NEWSPAPER

LOOKING NORTHWEST FROM BEAVER STREET

UNTIL JUNE 29 EVERY TRAIN ENTERED AND DEPARTED THE
NEW STATION VIA THE THREE TEMPORARY APPROACH TRACKS

JUNE 16 - WORK PROGRESSED ON THE NEW WESTBOUND TRACKS AND YARD "E"

JUNE 23 - WORK HAD BEGUN ON THE EASTBOUND SIDE

ON JUNE 28 THE "NEW" TEMPORARY WESTBOUND TRACK WAS TAKEN OUT
OF SERVICE AND REMOVED LEAVING TWO TRACKS FOR EASTBOUND TRAINS.

ON JUNE 29 THE NEW CONCRETE VIADUCT, WESTBOUND ATLANTIC DIVISION
TRACK AND CABIN FIVE'S INTERLOCKING - INCLUDING A DERAIL,
DETECTOR BARS AND FACING POINT LOCK - WERE PLACED IN SERVICE

AN EASTWARD EXTRA FREIGHT APPROACHED BEHIND G53b NUMBER 135 (BROOKS APRIL 1911).
FOR YEARS THE G53 WAS THE RAILROAD'S STANDARD ROAD FREIGHT ENGINE. CHECK OUT THE
BRAKEMAN RIDING THE SECOND CAR. THAT'S WHY TELLTALES WERE USED ALL OVER THE ROAD.

ON JUNE 29 THESE TWO PERMANENT MAIN LINE WESTBOUND TRACKS AND THE NEW WEST-
BOUND ATLANTIC DIVISION TRACK ON THE NEW CONCRETE VIADUCT WERE PLACED IN SERVICE

AFTER JUNE 29 CABIN FIVE CONTROLLED THE GRADE CROSSING OF THE NEW WESTBOUND ATLANTIC DIVISION TRACK ON THE NEW CONCRETE VIADUCT AND THE TWO EASTBOUND TEMPORARY MAIN LINE TRACKS.
THE ATLANTIC DIVISION TRACK ON THE WOOD VIADUCT WAS OPERATED AS THE EASTBOUND TRACK.