by nyandw
MattAmity90 wrote: "...Babylon grade crossings before elimination..."[url]http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/crossi ... ns.htm[url]
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MattAmity90 wrote: "...Babylon grade crossings before elimination..."[url]http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/crossi ... ns.htm[url]
nyandw wrote:I have seen those photos, and I have seen some of Dave Keller's archived photos of stations along the Babylon Branch during elimination such as Amityville, Copiague, and Lindenhurst. However, for Amityville all but two photos is the temporary station being constructed with wood everywhere. I know the blueprints for the temps in the A/C/L segment were the same (High Platforms with 1 pedestrian overpass), but what I find odd is unlike MP, Bellmore, and Merrick, these three stations' pedestrian bridges had an angled staircase as you were crossing the tracks on the canopied platform (or Eastbound). It looks like it was a tight fit for the M1 trains, and I was wondering was there plenty of clearance between the trains and that angled staircase?MattAmity90 wrote: "...Babylon grade crossings before elimination..."[url]http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/crossi ... ns.htm[url]
Head-end View wrote:Keyboardkat, maybe you can answer a question that no one else on these boards has been able to do, since you were a Floral Park resident during the crossing elimination project. Word is that your village and the LIRR were seriously at odds during/after the project and that Floral Park is still angry at the LIRR to this day 50 years later. And supposedly this is the reason that New Hyde Park and Mineola won't let the railroad elevate thru their villages, 'cause of whatever happened with Floral Park.Head end, let me correct a misimipression. I was never a Floral Park resident, at any time. When the Floral Park grade crossing elimination project was on, I was a junior and senior at Mineola High School. I lived in Roslyn Heights. Before getting my driver's license, I used to bicycle to Floral Park to watch trains, and later watch the project underway. I was totally unaware of local Floral Park politics.
So do you remember any of the local politics of that era and what the problems were that led to the village being so bitter at the LIRR? Seems to me the final product must be an improvement over those staggered grade crossings that existed at Tulip Ave. What's the story?
And my apologies if I may have asked you this before, and have forgotten whatever you might have told us......(chuckle!)