Re: (rshsdepot) Long Island RR in the Subway?

["Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Maybe so, but sometimes those "oldtimers" were very accurate at this
stuff-they considered progress to be an art.....here is a current story
about a typo-Legacy magazine sidebar article on Bellevue Hospital (NYC) with
a photo of one of the old main buildings with the caption reading Bellevue
in 1939....Yet in front of the brick building is a pre-formed concrete
double level parking garage which at best would maybe be built in 50's, but
probably more in 1970s. And on the sidewalk besides this structure is a
silvery metal street light standard which is doubtful existed before
1960s....

In a way the New York subway looked like this LIRR platform I guess.....yeah
there could have been the possibility this was Delancey (Essex) or Chambers
Street I guess...and there is also mistakes made back then many times......I
just mentioned the terminology, because in old newspapers, on proposed
projects for tunnels for streetcars, rapid transit and "trolleys" many times
use the term subway..it is also true that this photo, this series of stereo
slides even, may have been shot by a different company and copied, and thus
was not as detailed in information as an original might have been...

Oh never mind...are there others in this series?
- -----Original Message-----
From: Richard F. Makse <webmaster_@_nelliebly.com>
To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Long Island RR in the Subway?


>Paul Luchter wrote:
>
>> Technically, in US lingo of the time, might this Atlantic Avenue Rapid
>> Transit Railroad tunnel have been at times referred to as a subway
>> (section), especially out of (NY) town?
>
>Perhaps so but I think you are giving the ancient caption writer too much
credit. It would be very
>difficult to distinguish an LIRR train and underground terminal from an
Interborough train and
>station. The NYC Subway and the LIRR's Flatbush Ave terminal were "new" at
the same time in our
>history. They all did look the same, didn't they? Isn't that why the
question was asked in the first
>place?
>
>Dick Makse
>

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