by Head-end View
I believe there are a total of eight platform tracks on two levels. Sounds a little bigger than Atlantic Terminal.
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Head-end View wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:29 pm I believe there are a total of eight platform tracks on two levels. Sounds a little bigger than Atlantic Terminal.I'm not sure. I believe it stubs out into 8 yard tracks? How much stuff could you really turn at the height of rush hour 6am-9am and then fleet back north/east on two mainline tracks?
Kelly&Kelly wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:36 pm Chief Justice Warren E. Burger's March, 1982 opinion:PATH has blurred the lines between a railroad and rail transit, especially there are no more interchanges or
..."If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, well then it's a duck..." regarding the LIRR being a railroad.
Kelly&Kelly wrote: ↑Sun Jul 25, 2021 7:20 amIgnoring political issues and the like, in my experience starting in 1992 the LIRR parts of NYP - and any other part you had to go through to get to and from it, have been a run down dump. Now it will be a brighter place, much higher ceiling, no food, someday some unaffordable food, but I'm guessing it will continue to be a poorly maintained dump.
photobug56 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 5:20 pm I don't doubt that last point, except that LIRR replaces cars what, every 50 years or so?Going back to the original MP54 electric fleet (1908-1930), these lasted 40-60+ plus years, replaced
freightguy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:00 pmFrom what I recall seeing, there are to be some extensions into tail tracks beyond the platforms, but not 8. However, even without the tail tracks, if arrivals were scheduled every 3 minutes, a given track would have 24 minutes available to turn a train before the next one was due. Penn Station now handles on 6 station tracks the traffic fed to it on 4 main tracks, although admittedly West Side Yard is available to get some of them out of the way. But it could be done.Head-end View wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:29 pm I believe there are a total of eight platform tracks on two levels. Sounds a little bigger than Atlantic Terminal.I'm not sure. I believe it stubs out into 8 yard tracks? How much stuff could you really turn at the height of rush hour 6am-9am and then fleet back north/east on two mainline tracks?