Some photos I took today of 69th Street Station.
Looking east from the bottom of the excavation
The green pipe running over the trench is a city sewer main, this should be covered up by the time the station is done. The wooden thing above it is a walking bridge for construction workers. In the distance you can see the temporary bridge for the 17th Avenue detour route and the dual tunnels.
Looking west from the bottom of the excavation
The east end of the station platform will start just beyond the grey concrete cylinder (it's a manhole for those who don't know what a manhole looks like when it is exposed). It still needs to be excavated obviously. The 69th Street bridge is in the distance behind the dirt hill
Looking east down the "inbound" side of the track bed
Just a closer shot of the mudslab, the lowest part of the trackbed.
Looking up one of the walls of the trench
This is a shotcrete wall with anchor bolts, which are drilled into the wall and keep it stable. This isn't the finished product, which will look like the decorative wall finishings in the 45th Street Station pictures I posted last week.
Looking west from the wooden temporary bridge over the trench.
Looking east from the wooden temporary bridge.
Station Parkade
