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The Bulletin SANDY RECOVERY WORK on the SEA BEACH LINE Published by the Electric Railroaders’ by Jeffrey Erlitz Association, Inc ERA BULLETIN — NOVEMBER, 2019 The Bulletin Electric Railroaders’ Association, Incorporated Vol. 62, No. 11 November, 2019 The Bulletin SANDY RECOVERY WORK ON THE SEA BEACH LINE Published by the Electric Railroaders’ by Jeffrey Erlitz Association, Inc. P. O. Box 3323 Starting on Monday, October 21, N Sea sides of the creek for both bridges Grand Central Station New York, NY 10163 Beach service has once again been curtailed ● Installation of flood gate at north end of from Coney Island-Stillwell Av to 86 St, at all creek bridge For general inquiries, times. This service cutback is to permit flood ● Construction of new traction power and or Bulletin submissions, contact us at mitigation work around the Coney Island communication cable at Coney Island bulletin@erausa. org Creek bridge, used by both Sea Beach and Yard or on our website at erausa. org/contact West End Line services. Previously, on No- The work also includes: approximately vember 4, 2001, N service was cut back to 12,000 linear feet of perimeter protection Editorial Staff: wall, nine watertight vehicular gates, structur- 86 St to enable two tracks to be taken out of Jeffrey Erlitz service for the Stillwell Av station reconstruc- al reinforcement of exterior building walls of Editor-in-Chief tion project. Service was restored to Coney the traction motor shop, new track under- drainage system, track replacement in affect- Ronald Yee Island-Stillwell Av on May 29, 2005. Tri-State News and STV, Incorporated was the firm that per- ed areas, new signal work, two new drainage Commuter Rail Editor outfalls to Coney Island Creek, backflow formed the design work and Tully Construc- Alexander Ivanoff tion Company is the prime contractor. TAP valves and tide gates, and upgrading the North American and Electrical Contracting Service Incorporated is pumping capacity of existing Tower A, B and World News Editor C pump rooms. The new flood gate includes the subcontractor doing, obviously, the elec- David Ross trical work. columns and their foundations, framework for Production Manager Contract C-34836 (Coney Island Yard Com- a gate system, and seepage cutoff. The new Copyright © 2019 ERA plex Long Term Flood Mitigation) was adver- power and communication work include new tised to bidders in the Fall of 2017 and was duct bank and manholes, installation of new awarded in February, 2018. The project is traction power, control, battery cables and This Month’s slated to last 54 months. negative bus on the bridge, new poles, mes- Cover Photo: The scope of this contract is quite exten- senger cables and communication cables, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe 1076-1 leads a southbound sive, as follows: and emergency alarm/emergency telephone. U2 train down the ramp and ● Construction of a perimeter flood protec- In addition, there is the requirement to in- into the subway from the spect the perimeter protection system and elevated Eberswalder tion wall Straße station (in the dis- ● Drainage system improvements materials stored for emergency deployment tance). These cars were ● Two new sump pits and associated dry after any storm event and on a quarterly ba- built in 1989 for the, at the sis as well whether or not there has been a time, East Berlin subway by discharge lines with manifolds LEW (Lokomotivbau- ● Engine driven deployable pumps storm event in the preceding quarter. Also, Elektrotechnische Werke there is the requirement to provide all labor, Hennigsdorf). Jeff Erlitz ● Passive tie down of the Sea Beach and photo at high noon on May West End Line bridges along Coney Is- fill material, and tools to deploy and seal vari- 5, 2019. land Creek ous gates at the Coney Island Yard complex ● Installation of a debris shield from the as well as remove deployed gates promptly The Genesis of north end of the creek bridges up to Nep- after a storm event. The remaining deploy- Dashing Dan — tune Avenue extension ment location is the railroad crossings at the Rockaway ● Hardening of bridge abutments on both Coney Island Creek bridge. Beach Division …Page 2 1 NEW YORKERA BULLETIN DIVISION BULLETIN— NOVEMBER, OCTOBER, 2019 2000 THE GENESIS OF “DASHING DAN,” PART SIX— ROUNDING OUT THE ‘TEENS ON THE LIRR by George Chiasson EVENTS ON THE ROCKAWAY BEACH DIVISION Ramblersville was renamed with a touch of élan in hon- AND FAR ROCKAWAY BRANCH or of founder William Howard on April 6, 1916. Undoubt- The site currently known as Howard Beach, mainly edly, the standing of this new “resort” (actually summer- recognized as a major touchpoint between MTA New time amusement zone) was adversely impacted when York City Transit’s A train, the Port Authority’s AirTrain, the Volstead Act, which brought about “Prohibition,” was and JFK International Airport in 2019, has literally risen passed in October, 1919. This combined with the dimin- from the sea across the past century. It began as ishing prominence of public fishing in Jamaica Bay’s “Ramblersville,” a scattered, seaward collection of hous- increasingly polluted waters after 1920 and an equally- es gathered about Hawtree Creek by Brooklyn develop- dubious legal connotation on public gambling to make er and glove manufacturer William H. Howard, who the area even more residential in nature across the filled in several acres of natural tidal marsh to bring it to longer term. Subsequent access to Howard Beach was life shortly after the New York, Woodhaven & Rockaway greatly improved when Cross Bay Boulevard was Railroad was established, then marketed the perfuncto- opened to motor traffic in 1923, but the area’s one-time ry village in support of his previously-described “Howard rebellious appeal was never really to return. As for the House” resort (1898-1907). This entertainment center in LIRR station, it was secondarily utilized as a relay and turn was an outgrowth of the railroad line across Jamai- storage point for both summertime beach specials and ca Bay, but it was not until June 15, 1899 that the Long dedicated trains to the nearby Aqueduct Racetrack, Island Rail Road finally established its first station stop having an adjacent set of universal crossovers dubbed at Ramblersville (possibly as an employee base for the “HB” to move equipment between all four tracks for sev- Howard House). Ironically, that initial station was sited eral decades. on the banks of Hawtree Creek, where it was crossed Believed to be heavily damaged by fire during early by the Rockaway Beach Division on a very short, fixed 1913, the unpretentious Rockaway Beach Division sta- bridge which was directly adjacent to the “summer re- tion at Matawok was closed, but a replacement was sort” of none other than the recently-deceased Austin installed on the curved track near White Pot Junction Corbin. In succeeding years the original scattering of about a mile north of the original site. Located next to homes blossomed into a full-blown suburban neighbor- the Fleet Street overpass, its diminutive low platforms hood, aided by even more creation of artificially- were linked by a wooden overhead bridge and sized originated land, thanks in great part to the use of spoils just big enough for one train door to use. Still intended from the Pennsylvania Tunnel & Terminal project follow- to ease access from the developing residential proper- ing the Hotel Howard fire of 1907. ties nearby, it “reopened” on May 25 along with a num- As the LIRR came to terms with its uplifted transporta- ber of other schedule changes, but only lasted through tion status after 1910, the ease of access it offered from the summer and had disappeared into eternity by that “Ramblersville” to commercial centers in Manhattan and September, eventually to be replaced by a completely Brooklyn, as attained after the Rockaway Line’s electrifi- new stop at another site many years later. In an early cation and its extension to Penn Station, did not take effort to reduce physical plant expense, and as a sign of long to work its inimitable magic and development was the significant traffic shift away from Long Island City intensified even further. Nevertheless, local preference following the opening of Penn Station, the direct link was clearly in favor of the fulsome (if not occasionally between Track 1 of the Rockaway Beach Division and ostentatious) residential and recreational versus the Track 1 of the Montauk Division at Glendale Junction gaudy commercial and the community’s identity as a was removed sometime in 1916, with all moves be- smallish, homely village ultimately gave way to the tween the two in both directions then making connection pseudo-grandiosity of “Howard Estates.” A new and via Track 2 only. In May, 1912, incremental improve- larger Long Island Rail Road station, including reloca- ments were made at Olde Arverne (Gaston), where a tion of the existing depot (which still carried the original new depot building opened at Clarence Avenue (B. 68th Ramblersville name), was opened one block to the Street) and a high platform for LIRR trains erected be- north of the original at the present 159th Avenue (then tween the southerly and middle tracks. Meanwhile, at merely a projected alignment labeled “Egan Avenue”) in the remote Goose Creek station, a simple passenger April, 1913. The area was once again graced by a casi- shelter was finally added. New buildings were also in- no, beach, and fishing pier by the summer of 1915, stalled at Cedarhurst on the Far Rockaway Branch dur- along with their attendant maritime peripherals (marina, ing 1913 and at the Holland station on the Rockaway barroom, hotel). Consisting of outside low platforms
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