I once saw a B.T. Express album cover that shows the group on an elevated train station. The platform railings were old and very ornate. It appears to be a New York City el, but I'm not sure if it is an existing el (in Brooklyn, The Bronx or Queens), or one that has since been torn down. I know the album was released sometime during the early/mid 1970's. If you have owned, or at least seen that album, can you tell me what el and/or station that was on the cover? Does it still exist today? If so, does it still look the same? Thanks.
SubwayTim wrote:I once saw a B.T. Express album cover that shows the group on an elevated train station. The platform railings were old and very ornate. It appears to be a New York City el, but I'm not sure if it is an existing el (in Brooklyn, The Bronx or Queens), or one that has since been torn down. I know the album was released sometime during the early/mid 1970's. If you have owned, or at least seen that album, can you tell me what el and/or station that was on the cover? Does it still exist today? If so, does it still look the same? Thanks.You'll find the album cover here:
http://music.yahoo.com/release/149809 (I Yahoo'd B.T. Express)
Looking at the fence at the rear of the platformI have to say it doesn't look like any NYC elevated station that I had seen in the past 30+ years.
One site said they hail from Brooklyn - the only el stations/sections that were torn down in Brooklyn since the 1970's was the Myrtle Avenue El, the Jamaica El north of 121 st and eastern portion the Atlantic Avenue station on the Canarsie line. None of them had platform rails like the one in the album cover.