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- Whitestone_Branch abstract "The Whitestone Branch was a branch of the Long Island Rail Road, running north and east along the left bank of the Flushing River from the Port Washington Branch near the modern Willets Point, Flushing. It crossed the river on one of the three bridges later torn down for the Van Wyck Expressway, then ran north along Flushing Bay and east along the East River to Whitestone. Originally conceived as a branch of the Flushing and North Side Railroad that was intended to lead into Westchester County (a connection that never materialized) in 1869, it was consolidated into the Long Island Rail Road in 1876 when its owners, the Poppenhusen family, took over the bankrupt LIRR. It later became part of a subsidiary called the Long Island City and Flushing Railroad.On October 12, 1912 the branch was electrified. In the 1920s the branch began to lose patronage and the LIRR sought to rid itself of the line. There was a proposal for the city owned IND subway to buy the line and incorporate it into the subway system. The deal never panned out most likely due the numerous grade crossings that would have cost the city a large amount of money to remove. The Interstate Commerce Commission allowed the LIRR to abandon the line in 1932.Most of the branch was removed, except a small section of the line leading to the Corona Yard which remained well into the 1970s when the LIRR closed the Corona Yard and turned it over to NYC Transit for subway use. Today only a small section of track, just east of Mets – Willets Point, remains branching off from the Port Washington branch. The Flushing-Main Street station of the Port Washington Branch was so named to distinguish it from the Whitestone's Flushing-Bridge Street station. Despite the closing of the Bridge Street station the LIRR continues to use "Main Street" on signs and timetables to this day.".
- Whitestone_Branch closingDate "1932-02-19".
- Whitestone_Branch closingYear "1932".
- Whitestone_Branch location Queens.
- Whitestone_Branch numberOfStations "5".
- Whitestone_Branch numberOfTracks "1".
- Whitestone_Branch openingYear "1869".
- Whitestone_Branch operatedBy Flushing_and_North_Side_Railroad.
- Whitestone_Branch operatedBy Long_Island_Rail_Road.
- Whitestone_Branch routeEnd Whitestone,_Queens.
- Whitestone_Branch routeStart Willets_Point,_Queens.
- Whitestone_Branch status "Abandoned".
- Whitestone_Branch thumbnail Whitestone_LIRR_ferry_site_jeh.jpg?width=300.
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- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageID "9376109".
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageLength "5756".
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageOutDegree "39".
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageRevisionID "680408958".
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Beechhurst_Yacht_Club_Station_(LIRR_station).
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Category:1869_establishments_in_New_York.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Category:Long_Island_Rail_Road_branches.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Category:Railway_lines_closed_in_1932.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Category:Railway_lines_opened_in_1869.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Category:Transportation_in_Queens,_New_York.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink College_Point_(LIRR_station).
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Corona_Yard.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Flushing_Bay.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Flushing_Bay_Freight_Spur.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Flushing_Main_Street_(LIRR_station).
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Flushing_River.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Flushing_and_North_Side_Railroad.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Flushing_–_Bridge_Street_(LIRR_station).
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Flushing_–_Main_Street_(LIRR_station).
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Grade_crossing.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Independent_Subway_System.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Interstate_678.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Interstate_Commerce_Commission.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Level_crossing.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink List_of_New_York_City_Subway_yards.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Long_Island_City_and_Flushing_Railroad.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Long_Island_Rail_Road.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Long_Island_Railroad.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Malba_(LIRR_station).
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Mets_–_Willets_Point_(LIRR_station).
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink NYC_Transit.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink New_York_City_Transit_Authority.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Port_Washington_Branch.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Proposed_expansion_of_the_New_York_City_Subway.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Queens.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Queens,_New_York_City.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Westchester_County.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Westchester_County,_New_York.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Whitestone,_New_York.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Whitestone,_Queens.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Whitestone_Branch.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Whitestone_Landing_(LIRR_station).
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Whitestone_Line_(NY&NST_surface).
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Whitestone_–_14th_Avenue_(LIRR_station).
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Willets_Point.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Willets_Point,_Queens.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLink Woodside_Branch.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLinkText "Whitestone Branch".
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLinkText "Whitestone line".
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageWikiLinkText "Whitestone_Branch".
- Whitestone_Branch caption "Beechhurst Yacht Club, the site of the former northern terminus of the Whitestone Branch".
- Whitestone_Branch close "1932-02-19".
- Whitestone_Branch el "1912".
- Whitestone_Branch end Whitestone,_New_York.
- Whitestone_Branch end Whitestone,_Queens.
- Whitestone_Branch hasPhotoCollection Whitestone_Branch.
- Whitestone_Branch imageWidth "300".
- Whitestone_Branch locale Queens.
- Whitestone_Branch locale Queens,_New_York_City.
- Whitestone_Branch name "Whitestone Branch".
- Whitestone_Branch notrack "1".
- Whitestone_Branch operator Flushing_and_North_Side_Railroad.
- Whitestone_Branch operator Long_Island_Rail_Road.
- Whitestone_Branch operator Long_Island_Railroad.
- Whitestone_Branch start Willets_Point,_Queens.
- Whitestone_Branch stations "5".
- Whitestone_Branch status "Abandoned".
- Whitestone_Branch type "Passenger and Freight".
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_rail_line.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Long_Island_Rail_Road.
- Whitestone_Branch wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Whitestone_Branch subject Category:1869_establishments_in_New_York.
- Whitestone_Branch subject Category:Long_Island_Rail_Road_branches.
- Whitestone_Branch subject Category:Railway_lines_closed_in_1932.
- Whitestone_Branch subject Category:Railway_lines_opened_in_1869.
- Whitestone_Branch subject Category:Transportation_in_Queens,_New_York.
- Whitestone_Branch hypernym Branch.
- Whitestone_Branch type ArchitecturalStructure.
- Whitestone_Branch type Infrastructure.