bluelinec4 posted:This pic baffles me I thought it was the Bay Ridge branch but I don't think so The Penn Central never touched the delivered cars there I know Joe Frank could figure it out
Hello Ben
Yes -- IT IS Parkville Jct and the LIRR tracks and the Culver EL in the background -- I have been down and in there -- the LIRR cut - many times in the 1960's & 70's in that cut
Here is a current view from an Aerial vantage point --- the building in the left center is still there along with its lower lighter colored one closer to the camera -- this aerial below shows the new supermarket built on the level fill that obliterated the N.East to South curving up-ramping tracks to and from MacDonald Avenue --- the Shop Rite angled parking lot and driveway are the near approximate alignment where the 2 LIRR tracks came upward in and long wide curve from the cut and turned into the streetcar tracks of MacDonald Ave under the Culver EL . of course the long upward grade of the two track earthen ramp was all filled in and leveled decades ago.
Very High Aerial image of Parkville Junction area -2016
In the picture you posted, there was very very long ago a small freight storage yard where all the empty space is to right of the active tracks -- one track has its right edge at the later years paved lot where additional tracks were.
Here is another shot of the current (a bit renovated) buildings at the left of the train by the locomotives
Close view of Two building near Locomotives near the EL in older photo
Parkville Junction (no longer a "rail junction" of any kind, heh )-- looks nothing TODAY as it did in the 1940's thru 1970's
regards - Joe F
