R9s To Rockway Park. On Friday, August 11, 2023, Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA NYCT Subway/New York Transit Museum R-6-3 1000 (ACF, 1935) led a 6-car train of R9s to Rockaway Park/Beach 116 Street to stage ahead of the sold-out "To The Rockaways by Rail" Nostalgia Ride. The train is passing the switch to the leg of "Hammels Wye" in the Hammels neighborhood of Queens, New York, that leads to the Beach 67 Street Station in Arverne. This piece of track is presently used for non-revenue moves, but had once been part of the route of the "H" Rockaway Shuttle, and before that in the Pennsylvania Railroad/Long Island Rail Road era was the route for trains to go from Beach 116 Street through to what is today's LIRR Far Rockaway Branch rather than following the route of the modern day "S" train towards the Ozone Park Branch.
