World's Fair Branch Subway Tracks
Collection: This image is from The William J. Rugen Image Collection and is depicted in prints, and digital image.; Image is part of The William J. Rugen Image Collection
Description: The World's Fair branch of the IND subway at 69th Road is seen here in the process of being removed. The fair grounds are just faintly visible in the background of this view looking north. The IND World's Fair Line, officially the World's Fair Railroad, was a branch of the Independent Subway System serving the 1939 New York World's Fair in Queens, New York City. It split from the IND Queens Boulevard Line at an existing flying junction east of Forest Hills – 71st Avenue station, ran through the Jamaica Yard and then ran northeast and north through Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (roughly where the Van Wyck Expressway, I-678, is now) on a wooden trestle to the World's Fair Railroad station, a bit south of Horace Harding Boulevard (now the Long Island Expressway (I-495)). The World's Fair Railroad and station are the only IND line and station to have been closed and demolished.
New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)
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