by interface76
I was looking at a timeline of stations the other day and it kind of made me wonder... Pardon me if this was elsewhere as I poked around a bit.
Why was Bay Shore given high level platforms in the early 80's? Wikipedia says it was done in 1984 (I was around that station a lot with my dad as a kid, I was born in 1976 and never remember them being low level and we did a LOT of train watching, but I'll take the Net's word for it).
I would imagine there was some sort of plan to extend electrification past Babylon to there, maybe to handle Fire Island ferry traffic, but I never really saw any other potential infrastructure for any such thing. I grew up between Bay Shore and Islip, and was always interesting seeing the contrast between the two stations in my youth (since Islip didn't get upgraded until 1998).
Why was Bay Shore given high level platforms in the early 80's? Wikipedia says it was done in 1984 (I was around that station a lot with my dad as a kid, I was born in 1976 and never remember them being low level and we did a LOT of train watching, but I'll take the Net's word for it).
I would imagine there was some sort of plan to extend electrification past Babylon to there, maybe to handle Fire Island ferry traffic, but I never really saw any other potential infrastructure for any such thing. I grew up between Bay Shore and Islip, and was always interesting seeing the contrast between the two stations in my youth (since Islip didn't get upgraded until 1998).