Flushing Ave to Fresh Pond Rd. - Emery map 10/1958
Archive: Dave Keller
At the site of old OLIVET Tower, L2 #223,
running lite Morris Park to LI City, passes Welbilt on September 18, 1969.
My photo captures the Flushing Avenue grade crossing elimination project
that removed all traces of OLIVET and the manual gates at this busy
crossing.
Note the box cars on the Welbilt Stove
sidetrack. Photo/Archive: Richard F. Makse
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West Yard map -
Fresh Pond Rd. MP4 east
to POND Tower
Emery map 10/1958 - Archive: Dave Keller
Fresh Pond - POND Tower blueprint 1946-56
Archive:
Art Huneke |
East Yard map -
POND Tower to MP5
Emery map 10/1958 - Archive: Dave Keller |
H10s on
Montauk Track 1 working the west yard at Fresh Pond Station near MP 4 -1944
Collection :
Dave Keller
LIRR
train 1831 Eng 1557 9/12/1969
Photo: Richard F. Makse |
NRHS trip Fresh Pond Station - View E 10/26/1952
Photo: George Votava Archive: Mike Boland
Pond Tower - View W 1968 |
After 1968 remodeling; POND and yard office between the BMT
and NYCRR bridge. Archive: Dave
Keller
POND Tower 5/23/1975 Archive: Henry Wagner |
The eastbound RF-15, with the 222 & 224, gets a friendly wave from the
operator at POND Tower. NYCTA R-42's passes overhead on the former BMT
M Line. 12/1982
Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersky |
41 years ago, Conrail B-23-7 1903 leads its train over the LIRR's Lower
Montauk branch back to Oak Point Yard in the Bronx. Its train consists of
(mostly) empties from the LIRR. The LIRR's Pond Tower is still very much in
service, and the 104 can be seen in the distance in Fresh Pond East Yard
waiting for its next assignment. July, 1982
Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersky |
POND Tower after the fire 11/10/2022
Photo/Archive: Joe Vila |
POND Tower - View NW Photo: Steve Lynch 6/2000 |
Mechanical interlocking and model board at
Pond Tower
Fresh Pond, Queens, NY on
3/05/1978
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Interlocking
switch levers at Pond Tower 3/05/1978
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LIRR #229 coming off the Bay Ridge Branch,
west into Fresh Pond. Notice the doll head in the top grab! It is the
last time I saw a C420 L-2 on the LIRR. 6/05/1989
Photo: A. Joseph Daly
LIRR #229 westbound under Bridge #35
July, 1989
Photo: A. Joseph Daly
LIRR 1966 Fresh Pond Map
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1958 Maspeth Ave. to Fresh Pond Schematic
Map: Steve Rothaug
Fresh Pond Junction - NYA map c.2015 |
LIRR C420 #229 Conrail GE B23-7 #2805 Fresh Pond Interchange c.1985
Archive: Frank Fiore
South
of Fresh Pond Junction where the NYCRR used to run near the abandoned
Fremont Tower: 12/1970
Junction
of Montauk Branch and Conrail. Previously "FN" Tower. CR makes the
set outs for the LIRR to pick up. View N. The crews are discussing the
upcoming freight moves. |
East Yard, Fresh Pond - 2/05/1972
Photo/Archive: Richard F. Makse |
LIRR
#159 "Baby Huey"
Engineer
Photo: A. Joseph Daly |
LIRR #103, #274 Fresh Pond Junction view E 10/1989
Photo: A. Joseph Daly |
Three GP-38s Fresh Pond Jct. view E 5/1989 Photo: A. Joseph Daly
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LIRR #273 Fresh Pond Jct. westbound 5/1989 Photo: A. Joseph Daly |
LIRR
#614
Fresh Pond Jct. 7/1989
Photo: A. Joseph Daly |
LIRR
#272 Eastbound 1984
Photo: Mike Koehler
CR now CSX
working the bridge lead 1999 Photo: Bernard Ente
More
action over at Fresh Pond
April 24, 2000
Photo: Bernard Ente
With a train of cars just delivered to the LIRR by Conrail, the RF-15 leaves
Fresh Pond on its way east. Judging by the plume of smoke, the
freshly-repainted L-2's are throttled out in the 8th notch!
July, 1982. Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersky |
East at Fresh Pond. CSX outbound upstairs and RS-70
switching
Photo: Joe Tischner 7/2006
BMT Overpass
view west 05/16/2003
Photo/Archive: Bernie Ente
Bridge
#35 NYCRR/Conrail/CSX
overpass built by the Pennsylvania Steel
Company of Steelton, PA for
$84,000 in 1916
Photo: Steve Lynch 6/2000
An eastbound LIRR freight,
with the #222 and #228, has no work at Fresh Pond today. It passes Conrail
GE B23-7 #2810 laying up in the East Yard at Fresh Pond on an overcast day
in July of 1983.
Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersky |
Fresh Pond - Glendale Topographic map
Source: topozone.com
Fresh Pond Yard - Bridge 35 aerial view NW 2020
NYA and westbound LIRR 2/2001
Photo: Bernard Ente
LIRR #161
view E c.12/1988
Photo: A. Joseph Daly
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NYA
Fresh Pond Bridge #35 - View E (NY Times-Joe Carrotta) |
NYA GP38-2 #268
east leg of the wye interchange
at Fresh Pond
Photo: Steve Lynch 6/2000 |
NYA
Fresh Pond west leg of wye - BMT
overpass
(NY Times-Joe Carrotta) |
CR B23-7's on YAOP-17 at Fresh Pond Yard in Glendale after delivering the
interchange traffic to the LIRR, prior to the NYA taking over the freight
ops. Note the former New Haven catenary. Info/Photo/Archive:
John Krattinger
The catenary tower is commonly referred to as “the old signal bridge”, a
common place for CSX to wait for Fremont interlocking to be cleared of NYA
trains before dropping their inbound interchange for NYA.
Doug Hanell |
CR
EMD B23-7 #2808, CR GE U23B #2797, LIRR EMD MP15ACs #152
Fresh Pond
Junction View N c.
1985 |
POND Tower after the fire 11/10/2022 Photo/Archive: Joe Vila |
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Fresh Pond Yard aerial view W - 2/03/2024 Photo/Archive: Alex Piechowski |
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FREMONT
TOWER |
Abandoned
Fremont Tower: 12/1970
Junction of Montauk Branch and NYCRR. Previously
"FN" Tower
Out of
service: 4/15/70 Interlocking and tracks between Fremont and tracks between
Fremont and Bay Ridge under jurisdiction of PC Transportation Co.:
01/20/71
Closed: 1971 and
abandoned, burned, and razed prior to 1995. (per Jim Minor, LIRR
block opr.)
Collection
: Dave Keller
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Fremont Tower view S 12/30/88 Photo: A.
Joseph Daly
LIRR
MP-15AC #156
Fresh Pond Jct.
12/30/88 Photo: A. Joseph
Daly
MORE FREMONT Tower |
LIRR
MP-15AC #156
Conductor on steps as
the job is done Fresh Pond Jct. Wye
12/30/88 Photo: A. Joseph
Daly
LIRR MP-15AC #155
Crew having trouble with the freight coupler 12/30/1988 view N
This
was the RF-7. On the porch of the #155 is Engineer Bob Gianuzzi.
George Bedell is the Conductor with the cap visor on. The Brakemen working
the coupler might be Bob Gheringer. Info:
Ben Jankowski Photo: A. Joseph Daly |
Fresh Pond Jct., Fremont - LIRR Bicentennial C420s #228-226
Conrail SW1500 #9540 - 4/08/1981
Photo/Archive: Fred Wilczewski
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New Haven EF-3a electric #158 pulls a freight
geographically southbound on the Bay Ridge branch/NY Connecting RR, passing
the LIRR's "FREMONT" tower at Fresh Pond Jct. - Fresh Pond, NY - c. 1950.
View East (Dave Keller archive) |
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SELI was the road freight from Selkirk, NY to Fremont tower and LIRR Fresh Pond yard.
They would drop a cut of cars at Croton North Yard for the GM plant in Tarrytown, NY then run on the wye track at MO Tower, crossing over the Harlem line 4 track main to the Port Morris Branch, to the
ex-NH yard at Oak Point Yard, drop another cut of cars for the Oak Point based locals, run around train and head to Fremont Tower over the Hellgate Bridge to bring interchange to the LIRR at Fresh Pond yard.
Fremont Tower was a bit south of Pond, but "upstairs" from Pond Tower back then as it was the interchange track “upgrade” to the NY Connecting RR ROW (ex-NH) from Fresh Pond Yard (downstairs), not sure if this was during LIRR's turn to work the Fremont-Bay Ridge section of track to interchange with the South Brooklyn Railway (NYCTA)and Cross Harbor shortline operation. All freights were part of the NE region, with their T&E crews.
The return trip to Selkirk was known as
LISE, following the route in reverse back to north. Conrail changed the Symbol to SEOP/OPSE in the mid '70's, and the run to Fremont was WNOP- 4, a local freight based at Oak Point Yard.
After the May 8, 1974 Poughkeepsie Bridge Fire, 90-95% of the freight bound inbound is routed thru Selkirk, the other
5-10% of Long Island bound freight is car floated over from Greenville, NJ.
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