NYC Subway Tracks Trivia Quiz

Answer: Chambers St on the Nassau St line

The Chrystie Street Connection was a massive project completed in 1967 to allow 6 Av express trains to manhattan bridge service. Before it was completed, the north side tracks on the Manhattan Bridge ran to the Broadway express line, which is currently serviced by the south tracks.

The south tracks back then ran to Chambers St on the Nassau St. line, but as this line is not used nearly as often as the 6 Av line, the tracks were changed. The current day north tracks run along the 6 Av express line.

Answer: False

South Ferry is a strangely built station, with an inner and outer loop. The outer loop was serviced by the west side IRT local while the inner was served by the east side IRT express line. The inner loop was removed from regular service when trains became longer, as there was not enough room for trains to stop. For some strange reason, there was never any transfer between the two loops, making them almost separate stations.

Answer: The West Side IRT

There are unused portions of express track on all of the other lines. On the Broadway line, there is unused express track between Prince St. and City Hall. On the Brighton line, there is an express extention to between Brighton Beach and Ocean Pkwy. which is not used, as the Brighton express line terminates at Brighton Beach. None of the express track all along the Sea Beach line between 59 St in Brooklyn to Coney Island is used, primarily it is not useful as it stops at no stations except 59 St between 36 St and Coney Island.

Answer: True

Those tracks lead to the lower level of City Hall, where it was thought to be a terminal for the Broadway local as the express train continued on to Brooklyn via the Montague St. tunnel. Plans were changed, rerouting the Broadway express line over the Manhattan Bridge before service could be adopted to the lower level of City Hall.

Answer: Grand Concourse express line

Only the Grand Concourse line in the Bronx runs an express train in peak direction. As of 2004, that line is serviced by the D, as the B runs on the local side. All the other three have express trains in both directions. The Queens Blvd line has the G,R and V local trains while the express line consists of the E and F trains.

The Brooklyn IRT local lines are the 2 and 3 trains, while the express lines are the 4 and 5 trains. (The 5 during rush hours only.) And, the Fulton St. express line has the C local and the A express.

Answer: Ditmas Av and Church Av

The Brooklyn IND originally connected to the 8 Av line from Church Av via the current day F train route in the Rutgers St. tunnel to W 4 St, where it connected to the Queens Blvd express line via the 53 St. tunnel. The Culver line originally branched off from the 5 Av El in Brooklyn at 9 Av.

It was soon determined, however, that the Brooklyn IND could better serve the Culver line, so the two were connected. A shuttle serviced the two stations between 9 Av and Ditmas Av which the Brooklyn IND did not connect to until the track was torn down in the mid 1970s.

Answer: Queensboro Plaza

Queensboro Plaza is an interestingly constructed station. The IRT and BMT signed a deal saying that either line could send trains to Queensboro Plaza and send trains to either Astoria or Flushing. It used to be that the BMT and IRT lines had their own separate platform at Queensboro Plaza, but when one was torn down, the station was changed.

There are two platforms with tracks on either side, one on top of the other. The IRT trains to Flushing are on the south side, with trains to Flushing on the top and trains to Manhattan on the bottom, and the BMT trains to Astoria are on the south, again with trains to Astoria on the top platform and trains to Manhattan on the bottom.

Answer: 3 Av on the Canarsie Line

The 3 Av station is only a station that I believe should be shut down due to its close proximity to Union Square. The other three stations still exist, technically, but none of them have been used for many years. The reason for the closure of all three is the impracticality of it's continued use after platform lengthening which allowed for exits very close to these other stations.

Answer: Park Row

The station was near City Hall Park, but it was called Park Row. Both the Myrtle Av and Fulton St lines have long been abandoned. The Myrtle Av line ran to Jay St/ Borough Hall until 1969, where it connected to the A,C, and F trains. The upper portion of it, between Broadway and Metropolitan Av still runs today on the M line.

The other line here, the Fulton St line was torn down long ago and has not been in service since the early 1950's. The A and C lines run on Fulton St today, and they use a portion of the Fulton St El from Broadway Junction to Lefferts Blvd.

Answer: BMT

The Franklin Av line was actually originally part of the BMT Brighton local track. The first BMT Brighton local service was connected to Franklin Av on the Franklin Av El and ran from one of the either of the old BMT terminals, Park Row across the Brooklyn Bridge, or the Fulton St Ferry in Brooklyn. I can't find any proof that any such dual routes existed, but the tracks suggest that intended routes included local service from Coney Island to Franklin Av and express service making Brighton express stops and then running along Flatbush Av and over the Manhattan Bridge.

The current day construction is handled by the MTACC or the Metropolitan Transit Authority Capital Construction.