BMT Jamaica Line
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The BMT Jamaica Line, formerly known as the Broadway Line, is an elevated rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn and Queens. It runs from the Williamsburg Bridge
Three tracks over Broadway
Elevated ramp to Archer Avenue
The Jamaica Line seen in the 1940s
Power substation at 144th Place adjacent to a former section of the elevated tracks
Archer Avenue lines
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The IND and BMT Archer Avenue lines are two superposed rapid transit lines of the New York City Subway, mostly running under Archer Avenue in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens. The two lines are buil
BMT Jamaica Line
…then east over Fulton Street and Jamaica Avenue to Jamaica, Queens. In western Jamaica, the line goes into a tunnel, becoming the lower level of the Archer Avenue lines in central Jamaica. The J and Z trains serve the entire length of the Jamaica Line, and the M serves the line west of Myrtle Avenue. The longest elevated…
BMT powerhouse, 144th Place and Jamaica Avenue
The former station house of 168th Street station, the former terminal of the BMT Jamaica Line.
View of the Jamaica-Van Wyck station.
A portion of the line constructed using the tunneling shield method near Jamaica–Van Wyck station.