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| A recent topic thread in Subchat, the subway blog, made me revisit one of FNY's long-cherished talismans, the remainders of the old Long Island Rail Road's "Evergreen" branch, which was a one-track freight line that ceased operation, I believe, sometime in the 1980s. In the long ago and far away, it was a ctually a passenger line that ran from the Greenpoint waterfront through Greenpoint and Bushwick, eventually making a connection with the Bay Ridge Branch, another defunct passnger line that has been converted to freight. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Long after even freight service to local Ridgewood businesses vanished on the Evergreen, defunct tracks stretched for a couple of miles just south of Wyckoff Avenue, making life easy for auto mechanics by wrecking shock absorbers. By the mid-2000s most of these remaining tracks had been removed (but not before FNY's exceedingly feeble camera recorded them in 1999).
Two railroad crossing X-sign ghosts remained on Hancock Street (title card) and Cornelia Street (above), warning motorists about locomotives that would never show up. Photos: Bob Andersen (title), gp38/R42 of Subchat (above).
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