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Sandbox 1
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Long Island Rail Road,

Metro-North Railroad

Long Island Rail Road
Long Island Rail Road
Sandbox 3
Sandbox 3

New York City Bus

New York City Bus
New York City Bus

Subway Expansion Plans

NYC Subway History Post-Unification
NYC Subway History Post-Unification

NYC Subway History Post-Unification

NYC Subway History Post-Unification
NYC Subway History Post-Unification

Dual Contracts

Dual Contracts
Dual Contracts

User:Epicgenius/sandbox/Metropolitan Transportation Authority

User:Epicgenius/sandbox/article-draft1Manhattan Bridge subway closure

User:Kew Gardens 613/Subways70s80s

User:Kew Gardens 613/NYSTC Annual Reports

User:Tdorante10/sandbox3 – Includes draft bus articles

User:ItzWindowsME/sandbox – Q29 draft

Queens Bus Routes and lines – A list of bus article projects

User:Epicgenius/sandbox/1 – Interesting track map drafts

User:Epicgenius/sandbox/3 – Includes draft bus articles

User:Epicgenius/sandbox/5 – Includes a draft split of Technology of the New York City Subway that I have been wanting to work on

This sandbox is for SIR-related things. The goal is to transfer this material to the mainspace. Other users should feel free to add information that is fit, improve, and add references to the work that is here.

General

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https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/22/staten-island-public-domain

https://books.google.com/books?id=xKAgvkNdO4cC&q=%22richmond+valley%22#v=snippet&q=%22richmond%20valley%22&f=false

Opening

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Charter

The Staten Island Railroad Where It Is To Run–Its Owners–Its Cost–Its History and Prospects–Conditions Of Its Affairs, And All About It.

Someone advertised an 82 acre lot in 1852 because a proposed SI Railroad stop was going to be nearby

1880-Negotiating ROW

Damages

William H Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt

Details of the Rapid Transit Scheme

1887 Progress

Arthur Kill Progress

South Beach Railroad

Baltimore and New York Railway

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B&NY

1905 Double-Tracking

Extensions

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Algernon?

Improvements Help Richmond Realty– Bridge across Arthur Kill

Grade Crossing Eliminations

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State to Eliminate 4 Crossings on S.I.

Electrification

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Considered in 1905

Double Tracking

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Rail Gossip

Capital Stock

1893

Improvements Help Richmond Realty

Contract

June 1895 Double-tracking between Tottenville and New Dorp is being rapidly pushed, proposed to increase service to hourly trips and to allow for express trains

1907

SIRTRC petitioned NYC on June 13, 1911 for an extension of time from October 29, 1911 to October 29, 1914 to complete a second track across Richmond Terrace. They had been given two years to do so.

Abandonment of plan to double-track 1917

The City Record

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City Record 1912

History of SIR

Timetables

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June 5, 1860 "Open to Princess Bay Station" with a stop at Pryor's Road

(June?) 1860

May 30, 1883 – Annandale?

Station Renovations

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Tottenville–The Future City of Staten Island, and the rival of Newark and Paterson

Richmond Valley station

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Richmond Valley ESI

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/staten-island/news/2018/06/04/mta-begins-work-on-sir-s-richmond-valley-station

http://www.mta.info/press-release/nyc-transit/repairs-improvements-coming-staten-island-railways-richmond-valley-station

Working West Shore 2030 Study Proposal to move Richmond Valley to Page Avenue with a park and ride

Transit hub, and TOD on Nassau Metals Site

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/sirr/downloads/pdf/Ch21_Appendix_Initiatives_FINAL_singles.pdf

Page 16 – https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/applicants/env-review/eas/12dcp080r_eas.pdf

Station often damaged due to floods from Mill Creek; proposal to construct floodgates

Station atop of tidal wetlands with streams behind both platforms

Both streams will be removed and directed under the tracks as part of the Mill Creek Watershed Bluebelt project currently underway to NYC DEP Bluebelt BMP’s (Best Management Practices).

Study cost $205,000

https://stormrecovery.ny.gov/sites/default/files/crp/community/documents/statenisland_nyrcr_plan_20mb.pdf

https://www.nycedc.com/sites/default/files/filemanager/Resources/Studies/Stronger_More_Resilient_NY/Ch15_Staten_Island_FINAL_singles.pdf