FRESH POND
1:00pm and our second stop, after refueling at
the local burger joint (via the Hyundai Express), was in Glendale, Queens, NY. The
temperature was well into the 90's by now with more to come. Reminded me of chicken on a
barbeque!
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NYA MP15 #151 (ex LIRR unit #151) in
for a little routine maintainance
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NYA MP15 #159 (ex LIRR unit #159) east
end of Fresh Pond, waitng for the next call
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Looking west, the NYCRR overpass is the dominant
feature
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Fresh Pond, NY
Topographic
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FRESH POND AREA MAPS Here's the site of LIRR's Fresh Pond Junction, the interchange
between LIRR's east/west Montauk Commuter Branch, the NYCRR's 9 mile (now CSX) link
northbound to Hell Gate, and the LIRR's (now leased to NYA -New York & Atlantic)
southbound Bay Ridge freight only single track line.
The last "station" counting down from Hell Gate, #145 Freemont, of the NYCRR
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Fresh Pond, NY
June 1966
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THE EAST YARD |
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East Yard
storage team tracks (13 in the 1966 mapview above) with
a variety of rolling stock for NYA
customers.
Boxcars and tanks ready to go
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![lumberload.jpg (30626 bytes)](lumberload_small1.jpg)
Lumber, eastbound, destined for
one of the 20+ NYA customers
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SW1001 #106 working the yard
(Photo: George Greig) |
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Fresh Pond Junction Yard office and tower located
between the BMT and NYCRR overpass
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GETTING READY TO GO
2:00pm and our chariots have arrived; ready to go.
NYA GP38-2 #268 on the north point, an ex-LIRR bay window caboose, LIRR passenger coach
#2940, and NYA GP38-2 unit #261 on the south point. Just as soon as #268 negotiates the tight
curve (18" HO radius?) we all get on board.
The caboose is the Holiday special as the Frosty stencil was still evident on the window.
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NYA caboose
decorated for the Holiday Season 12/1998
(Photo: George Greig) |
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NYA GP38-2 #268 rounding the interchange curve between
LIRR and NYCRR tracks
![frosty.jpg (2920 bytes)](images/frosty.jpg)
About the "coolest" thing around today
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