| This view is taken from an F train bound for Coney Island, looking west on the remains of the Culver Line, which left the West End Line(B train) at 9th Av and 39th St, going to Mc Donald Av, then turning south to reach Coney Island. As the IND system expanded, parts of the old Brooklyn Rapid Transit were modified or abandoned, and the new subways incorporated. In this case, the IND line to Church Av was extended via a ramp from the subway to the Mc Donald Av elevated line, and the BMT portion was cut, leaving a shuttle that ran from 9th Av to a connection with the F line at Ditmas Av, out of the photo to the left. The shuttle lasted from 1954, when the IND line was connected to the former BMT, to 1976, when it was replaced by buses. As I recall, low ridership and structural issues on the remaining elevated line doomed it. |