Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station (IND Queens Boulevard Line)
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The Winfield Spur, planned as part of the IND Second
System in 1929, was designed to provide through service to the
Rockaways from midtown, and to serve the neighborhoods of Maspeth and
Ridgewood. It would have been a two-track line from Roosevelt Avenue
to a connection with another newly planned line, the Myrtle/Central
Avenue line. It would have run as subway to 45th Avenue, elevated to
Fresh Pond Road, and again as subway to the connection with the
Myrtle/Central Ave line. In anticipation of this line being built,
trackways measuring 750 feet long and a completed station with full
tile work were built that connect to today's IND Queens Blvd line at
Roosevelt Avenue -- Jackson Heights. The Great Depression and later
World War II stopped all these grand expansion plans, and no further
construction was ever done. The station and trackways remain, serving
not passengers, but as a storage area and maintenance-of-way
offices.
 The IND Second System
Joe Brennan notes: There is an unused trackway for
westbound local trains beginning at outer wall just east of station,
rises up to same level as 2 trackways mentioned above making 3
trackways on upper level. At 78th St, 3 trackways on upper level curve
to south, ending at "temporary" wall at edge of constructed subway. On
lower track level in use, a fourth local trackway for eastbound local
trains is seen also curving to south and similarly ending at a wall.
The 4-track subway running south was a plan for a line to the
Rockaways and south Jamaica proposed in 1929. Get out the atlases: via
private property at 78th St now used as a playground, west in Garfield
Ave, south in 65th Place, private property, Fresh Pond Road, then east
in the LIRR, etc.
Below are 26 video-snapshots of the IND Second System
Roosevelt Avenue taken on a tour sponsored by the New York Transit
Museum, by Mark S. Feinman. A video
of this tour is also available.
(image 93118) (65k, 1024x768)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Michael Pompili
Date: 12/16/2003
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(image 93115) (132k, 1024x768)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Michael Pompili
Date: 12/16/2003
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(image 93117) (108k, 1024x768)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Michael Pompili
Date: 12/16/2003
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(image 93116) (105k, 1024x768)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Michael Pompili
Date: 12/16/2003
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(image 45694) (422k, 1024x626)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Chris Leverett
Date: 3/23/1997
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(image 1073) (20k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: Standing on (what would have been) the Rockaway-bound trackway, Roosevelt Ave terminal station. The island platform, to the right, is so filled with "stuff" that it is nearly impossible to make it out. Note the outside wall in the left of the picture; it is fully tiled with a blue band across the upper third of it. It looks grey because of the years of dust that have accumulated on it.
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(image 1074) (10k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: A similar view to the first picture, trying to look at more of the island platform.
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(image 1075) (10k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: A close up of the wall. Above each escape is the word "Roosevelt" in black tile with white lettering, standard IND style.
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(image 1076) (9k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: It's very dark in the trackway. We have left the terminal area and are standing where a scissors crossover would have been placed just outside of the terminal. Not visible to the right is the turnout that would have enabled Queens Blvd trains to run to Rockaway. We're looking southbound (to Rockaway).
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(image 1077) (9k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: The tour group walking along the northbound (from Rockaway) trackway.
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(image 1078) (10k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: A good view of the northbound trackway. To the right is the southbound trackway from the terminal station. To the left is the ramp connecting the IND Rockaway Line to the IND Queens Blvd Line.
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(image 1079) (10k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: The southbound trackway, which at this point is over the IND Queens Blvd Line. A peek into one of those escapes on the right would have shown you a high ceiling and the Queens-bound IND local track below.
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(image 1080) (8k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: Looking south, this is the ramp that would have connected the IND Rockaway Line to the IND Queens Blvd Manhattan-bound local track. The small dot in the background is a signal on the IND Queens Blvd line, the larger dot is the Roosevelt Ave / Jackson Heights express station.
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(image 1081) (8k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: Same view as before but a little closer to the IND Queens Blvd Line.
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(image 1082) (8k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: Standing near the end of the connecting ramp, the foreground trackway is the northbound trackway into the Roosevelt Ave terminal; the background trackway would have served Rockaway-bound trains.
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(image 1083) (8k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: Same view as before.
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(image 1084) (10k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: From the connecting ramp facing Rockaway, the tour group walks on the northbound trackway.
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(image 1085) (7k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: Near the "end of the line". The connecting ramp to the IND Queens Line in the foreground and the northbound trackway to the Roosevelt Ave terminal is on the right.
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(image 1086) (9k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: The "end of the line", an emergency exit, on the connecting ramp.
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(image 1087) (6k, 320x240)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IND Queens Boulevard Line
Location: Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station
Photo by: Mark S. Feinman
Notes: Standing on the northbound trackway, looking towards the Roosevelt Ave terminal.
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