LIRR Yard A Removal,
Sunnyside Yard - 1999 |
Yard
A - LI City view S 5/08/99 Photo: Kevin Wong |
LIRR Yard A Removal,
Sunnyside Yard - 2002 |
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Yard A - LI
City view NE 10/06/2002 Photo: Kevin Wong
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Yard A - LI
City view SW 10/06/2002 Photo: Kevin Wong
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LIRR Yard A Removal,
Sunnyside Yard -
2003 |
Yard A looking west (left photo) and east from the #7 train.
Photos/commentary:
Bernie Ente 11/23/2003 |
In
the first two pictures here, I took a shot of Amtrak's Sunnyside Yard
while riding overhead on a #7 train, just before the start of rush hour.
Over half of the trains that you can see in this picture are NJT trains
awaiting the call to Penn. Photo/commentary: Alan
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Next
up are two pictures of what used to be the multiple unit classification
yards. This area is on the west side of the buildings that separate the
Amtrak yard from the classification yard.
You will notice in both pictures, that while most of the tracks have
been ripped up, they are currently pre-assembling new track sections for
what will become the LIRR's Grand Central holding yard. The first
picture is the bird’s eye view from the same #7 train.
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The
second picture was shot from the Queens Blvd. bridge over the Sunnyside
yards. The color is better in this shot, since there was no glass door
pane in my way, unlike the prior shot. Photo/commentary:
Alan Burden
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Now
we'll move over to what used to be the eastbound & westbound
classification yards. This is an area that can be seen from the Citibank
building.
A small freight yard still exists here and to my knowledge will continue
to remain here. However, the rest of the classification yards are
completely gone. It would also appear that all access to what's left of
the car floats has now been permanently cut off.
What's being built here is a new maintenance building called the Arch
Street Shops. This building will provide maintenance and repairs to the
LIRR cars serving Grand Central as part of the Eastside Access project.
The first shot here shows part of the freight yard, with the steel
skeleton of the new Arch St. shops in the background. Photo/commentary: Alan
Burden |
The
next shot of the Arch St. shop was taken from the railfan window of a #7
redbird as the train decends the ramp into the Steinway tunnel to
Manhattan.
All of the area to the right used to be the classification yards. One
can just make out the piles of lumber sitting in the still used freight
yard on the far right. The grade timing signal has just changed to
yellow or caution from stop. Photo/commentary: Alan
Burden |
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closer shot of the new Arch St. building going up, from that same
redbird train. Note the grab handle in the right side of the frame.
The green bridge just barely visible in the background is carrying 21st
Street in Queens.
Photo/commentary:
Alan Burden |
Next
is a side view of the new Arch St. building. This was shot from the
staircase leading down from 49th Avenue to the LIRR's Hunterspoint
Station.
One of the new (newer at least to the #7 line) silver R62 trains descends
in front of the building on it. Photo/commentary:
Alan Burden
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Finally
a just for fun shot. After all how often is it that one can get a shot
with an Amtrak train, a commuter train, a subway train, and a work train
in one shot.
On the far right one of the LIRR's new diesel powered double deck trains
sits at the Hunterspoint station awaiting it's departure time. Moving
left towards the center, Amtrak train headed by AEM-7 #922 heads down
into the tunnel leading to Penn Station.
Continuing to move left an engineless Amtrak work train sits on a siding
waiting to go back to work on the weekend. Further left a #7 redbird
heads up the incline from the underground Hunters Point station on its
way to the Court House Square station.
On the far left sits the steel skeleton of the new Arch St shop and in
the upper left corner is the green Citibank building in Queens. Photo/commentary:
Alan Burden |
LIRR Yard A Removal,
Sunnyside Yard - 2007
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Yard A 03/30/2007 new third
rail installed Amtrak Acela #2006 Photo:
John McCluskey
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Yard A 03/30/07
Photo: John McCluskey
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Yard A 11/04/2007
Photo: John McCluskey
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Yard A - LI City view SW
1/03/2007
Photos: Kevin Wong
Yard A - LI City view SW
6/11/2007
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LIRR Yard A Removal,
Sunnyside Yard - 2009
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Yard A - LI City view S 5/08/2009
Photos: Kevin Wong
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Yard A - LI City view NE 12/14/2009
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LIRR Yard A Removal,
Sunnyside Yard - 2010
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Yard A 03/25/2010
Photo: Bernie Ente
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View from the 7 train of Yard A.
The PRR service buildings are long gone.
03/25/10
Photo: Bernie Ente
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Amtrak/ex-PRR Pass Yard
03/25/2010
Photo: Bernie Ente
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Sunnyside Yard -
An Engineers View |
Yard A Hump removed looking west toward
Honeywell St. 6/03
Photo: Steve Kay |
View east toward
Honeywell St. 6/03
Photo: Steve Kay |
View north from
Sunnyside Yard 6/03
Photo: Steve Kay |
Yard A removed west toward Queens Blvd
6/03
Photo: Steve Kay
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Some of the buildings
north of Yard A
Photos: Steve Kay |
The bridge that goes between the two
"Walther's" buildings is Honeywell Avenue which also bisects the yard.
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Buildings surrounding Sunnyside Yard 5-8-02_small.jpg |
Connecting track Q Tower and Harold 5-08-02
Photo: Steve Kay
Eng. |
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New Harold Tower |
Harold Interlocking - 1/30/1974
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Photo: Steve Kay Eng.
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Photo: Steve Kay Eng.
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"R" Tower
Photo: Steve Kay
Eng.
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"Q" Tower Photo: Steve Kay
Eng.
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The doubledecked bridge in
the photo is Queens Blvd. It runs over the west end of Sunnyside yard
almost over the top of "Q" Tower. This tower controls the west end of
the yard and "R" tower controls the east end of the yard. The subway
line above Queens Blvd. is the Seventh Ave. Line that goes to Shea
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Arriving
at F Tower next to Metroliner equipment 5-10-02
Photo: Steve Kay
Eng.
The bridge by the old "F" Tower I believe is Thompson Ave.
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West of F Tower
Photo: Steve Kay
Eng. |
This
photo was taken while I was following an "Acela Regional" (that is AEM-7
and Amfleet cars) out of Sunnyside Yard. The location is the old "F"
tower which you can see to the right of the last car. "F" Tower's
functions have been taken over by PSCC (Penn Station Control
Center). Both trains are sitting on Sub 2. My train has just come under
the Line 2 and Line 4 overhead bridge. We are waiting for PSCC to give
us the signal to enter Penn Station through Line 2 under the East
River. My train makes this move five days a week.
Photo: Steve Kay Eng. |
LIRR Tunnel approach
11/2006
Portal A -Line 4
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LIRR Tunnel
11/2006
Portal A -Line 4 |
LIRR Yard A
Renewal,
Sunnyside Yard - 2017
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Yard A (left) Sunnyside
Yard view NE 10/10/2017 Photo: Jake D. Oster
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