Interlocking Walkthrough: ENY

For today’s interlocking walkthrough,we’ll be taking a look at the ENY interlocking in the enclave of East New York in Brooklyn. If you didn’t get the exaggerated sarcasm, then, let me tell you that East New York is not an enclave! In fact, it’s known to be one of the worst areas in New York, facing numerous crime and poverty issues. If I were you, unless your trying to explore and don’t have expensive things on you, then I’d avoid the area completely. Nonetheless, the point is if you go there (especially at night!) don’t dress like you want to be mugged.

East New York is a weird-looking station as it looks underground, but it’s actually at ground-level! It’s actually sandwiched between the BMT Canarsie Line and a highway. ENY Interocking is a very simple interlocking,and is also rarely used, only really during service disruptions. But, for the most part, Atlantic Branch operations are pretty simple and straightforward and don’t involve crossover moves at midpoints.

Switches

So ENY interlocking is a very simple interlocking, only consisting of a switch, when going east, from Atlantic 2 to Atlantic 1 (the westbound track), followed by another switch back to Atlantic 2. Just two crossovers, that’s it.

Towers

There used to be an ENY tower, which actually lied right on the station platform, however, that was closed back in the 90s and only reopened whenever there was a service disruption which required the interlocking but this caused trouble because whenever there was some sort of incident that took one of the two tracks out of service without notice, then the affected train would have to wait until someone came to throw the switch. Eventually, in September 2001, the towers operations were moved to the nearby BROOK interlocking.

Neighbors

To the west lies BROOK interlocking, in Atlantic Terminal, Brooklyn, and the eastern neighbor is DUNTON interlocking, the third and least-used of the three Jamaica interlockings.

To my regular readers, You should notice that we should be getting back into the hang of things after the 2 week hiatus and expect slightly more regular posts. However, for the rest of the summer, due expect slightly less as I’m preoccupied with other things and coupled with vacations I don’t have the time to push out as much content.