Bushwick Terminal
Bushwick Yard
Bushwick Yard consisted of 13 tracks, and one run around track. One of the tracks led to Bushwick Terminal. Currently the site is mostly occupied by a lumber yard, and is blocked off from the rest of the Bushwick Branch by a fence. Most of the tracks in the yard have been covered up by asphalt.
At Bushwick Place and Johnson Avenue, there was the Long Island Rail Road Bushwick Freight Terminal. It was abandoned by the LIRR and was leased out for other uses, including a meat packing facility, and most recently, to a manufacturer of styrofoam coolers as a warehouse for styrofoam pellets. The roof had collapsed following a fire set by the resident homeless in May 2003. The building had been completely disused for about twenty years, but was still full of bags of styrofoam pellets at the time of demolition. The former LIRR freight office on Bushwick Place still stands.
In 1924, a temporary connection was built from Bushwick Yard that ran via Montrose Avenue and then connected to the New York City Subway's BMT Canarsie Line (L train) under Bushwick Avenue, just near the Montrose Avenue station. This was done in order for the delivery of new BMT Standard subway cars for the then-isolated Canarsie Line. The first of the cars were delivered by this ramp on June 18, 1924, and passenger service on the BMT Canarsie Line began on September 21 the same year.
See also
References
- ^ "South Side Railroad of Long Island History". trainsarefun.com.
- ^ LIRR Station History (TrainsAreFun)>
- ^ "SOUTH SIDE RAILROAD". arrts-arrchives.com.
- ^ "BUSHWICK BRANCH: LIRR in Brooklyn". forgotten-ny.com.
- ^ "LIRR/NYA Bushwick Branch Virtual Tour". oldnyc.com.
- ^ Picture of Bushwick Terminal
- ^ "Google Maps". google.com.
- ^ Terminal Building Replaced By
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- ^ "LIRR/NYA Bushwick Branch Virtual Tour @ OldNYC.com". oldnyc.com.
- ^ "LIRR Bushwick Terminal". hopetunnel.org.
- ^ LIRR Freight Office
- ^ "Map of Bushwick". Trains Are Fun.
- ^ "BMT Canarsie Line Car Delivery". www.nycsubway.org.