Montauk
Cutoff
Dutch Kills view south. Both LIRR bridges in sight.
Foreground bridge: Montauk Cutoff to Sunnyside Yard
Background Bridge: Swing Bridge at DB Tower
Emery Map: M Cabin 1912-1950s
Archive: Dave Keller
Emery Map: DB Tower 1906-1958
Archive: Dave Keller
Emery Map: Bliss Yard 11-1960
Archive: Dave Keller
Emery Map: Dutch Kills to Greenpoint Ave 1958
Archive: Dave Keller
Bliss Cabin, facing west. Greenpoint Ave and the rest of the Montauk is at my back.
LIRR Bliss Cabin Messages
09/1991
Leaving Bliss, check out the remains of the yard. Facing east towards
Bliss is where the C-secondary joins the line, the switch to Blissville
yard was right in front of where I stand.
On my left you have the C-secondary, which links the Lower Montauk with LI City yard, the right is the active track of the Montauk Cutoff, that's what were headed down looking west
View looking back east.
Head up around the curve and we have the Kearny siding facing east, the
out of service track
which is serving nothing but some shrubbery these days. Kearny is to my
left.
Here's a shot looking back towards the old signal bridge, you can see a PLS (PRR/LIRR position light signal) protecting the C-secondary that is on the lead to the Lift Bridge. The Lift bridge is the closest to the L.I.E or "Midtown Highway" on your older map. Directly to the right is where the Swing bridge (Which is known as the Draw Bridge, dating back to the former bridge standing there).
Hey, there's another bridge here! We'll get to that later.
:
All the shots of M-cabin (more like M-container!) are facing west, we
risked walking the draw bridge, but the lift is way to sketchy.
"The Bridge" is the Lift bridge on the Montauk Cutoff, it's where M-cabin is perched on top of
Dutch Kills Swing Bridge:
Dutch kills drawbridge taken from M cabin drawbridge, February 2005 while working the rosustabout. Photo: Bob Anderson
Wheelspur Yard:
The Wheelspur yard (on the right) is on the west end of the swing/draw
bridge, the switch lead for LI city is in the far background, as well as
the signal protecting the secondary. In its place is a
building, and a pile of junk. Hard to imagine there was a major yard
located here with the building there now!
Montauk cutoff drawbridge at “M”
cabin, looking west at Wheelspur Yard
Photo: Art Huneke 1955
Back towards Bliss. The shot facing up towards the old signal bridge is also on the C-secondary.
Check out the switch leading to nowhere facing west, standing on the C-secondary. The bridge is in the distance, in my infinite wisdom I didn't get a detail shot of the switch!
View north, LIE above
06/2007
LI City detail of Hunter's Point and
Newton Creek area. Circa 1947-1954 as the Pulaski Bridge is under
construction on this map.
Archive: Steve Lynch
Office of Chief Engineer, Pennsylvania Railroad, May 20, 1946
LI City detail of Hunter's Point and
Newton Creek area. Circa 1947-1954 as the Pulaski Bridge is under
construction on this map.
Archive: Steve Lynch
Arch St. Team Yard
Degnon Terminal
Montauk Branch Cut-off
Wheelspur Yard
Dutch Kills Creek
Newtown Creek
"M" cabin 12/70 Photo: Dave Keller