Newly completed Robin Road Trestle
Description
A trestle carrying what was then what was then the South Beach Branch of the Staten Island Railway across Robin Road Avenue was built in 1936 as part of a massive grade separation project. The line has long since been abandoned (as the line was discontinued in 1953) and the trestle at Robin Road is one of its few remaining traces. The bridge bears a 1936 date stamp.
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a $1.46 million grant for the $6 million grade crossing elimination project, which included work elsewhere in Staten Island and even in Manhattan. PWA Docket No. NY 4926.
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Abandoned Robin Road trestle, 1965
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Robin Road railway trestle: 1936 stamp
Source notes
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 22.
Gary Owen’s S.I.R.T. South Beach Line Page: https://www.gretschviking.net/GOSIRTPagePartTwo.htm (accessed Mar. 2018)
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 7, 2018.
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