MANHATTAN WORK 1. Monument installation on the west side track of the Manhattan tunnels. 2. Track installation at the upper level crossover in the Manhattan tunnels. QUEENS WORK 3. Installation of a 35-foot soldier pile for the B/C Approach Structure support of excavation. 4. Hand digging and extending conduits below…

QUEENS WORK 1. Preparing a strut to be set in place to support an approach structure in the future Mid-Day Storage Yard. 2. Strut installation in the approach structure in the future Mid-Day Storage Yard. 3. Backfilling a power duct bank in the future Mid-Day Storage Yard. 4. Placing ballast…

QUEENS WORK 1. Installation of bracing struts for an approach structure located in Harold Interlocking. 2. Pouring concrete for an underpinning pit under the 39th Street Bridge for the final track approach structure. 3. Building a turnout for the Mid-day storage yard west of Honeywell Ave. 4. Installing the inner…

MANHATTAN WORK 1. Concrete pour to set track in the upper level of the east cavern. 2. Demolition of steel at the Biltmore Room connection. 3. Ironworkers welding a column in the back of house area of the future LIRR passenger concourse. 4. Identifying power feed and control wires in…

The weekend of May 3rd was the single most productive weekend at Queens’ Harold Interlocking, the busiest railroad junction in the USA, since East Side Access weekend project work began back in 2008. 23 tasks were completed outright, three times as many than the previous most-productive weekend at Harold Interlocking,…

QUEENS WORK 1. Installing the yellow safety handrail on car maintenance platforms in the future Mid-Day Storage Yard. 2. Removing a boulder from an underpinning pit on the east side of the 39th Street Bridge. 3. Air rotary drill driving mini piles for a new approach structure west of the…

QUEENS WORK 1. Continued installation of roof panels on the personnel bridge in the Mid-Day Storage Yard. 2. Completed track in the Mid-Day Storage Yard. 3. Assembling a Bauer BG-24 Drill Rig to drive piles for the final approach structure in Harold Interlocking, east of the 39th Street bridge. 4….

QUEENS WORK Removing old cables from a trough in preparation of the construction of a new approach structure. Installing bridge roof panels on the personnel bridge for the Mid-Day Storage Yard. Installing new hardware on catenary poles as part of ongoing improvements in Harold Interlocking. Fusing pipes for an underdrain…

QUEENS WORK Lowering materials for construction of a tunnel approach structure using a Linkbelt crane on the 39th Street bridge. Vacuum truck excavation of material between tracks in the Mid-Day Storage Yard for future conduit installation. Driving mini pile casing east of the 39th St. Bridge in Harold Interlocking for…

1. Removing an existing foundation from the BC approach structure footprint 2. Concrete placement for a communications ductbank that will service the Mid-Day Storage Yard 3. Installed rebar and conduit for the negative traction power ductbank for the future Mid-Day Storage Yard 4. Escalator Installation between the Mezzanine and Lower…