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Poor planning, IMHO. It brushes past Roosevelt Field, it goes pretty close to Hempstead. Cut it off from the LIRR, and you'd have a good amount of ROW for a somewhat useable LRT starter line. Freight use? Why bother. It's an uphill battle, the LIRR's connections to everthing else suck, there's few (...

Undercar mounting on the MUs? My guess is Budd wanted them there for a 'clean' look to the M-1. It may also get the noise more at the automobile/platform level, as opposed to blasting it all over the place, though I tend to think styling was the #1 reason for it. Oh yes, the piping's a touch shorter...

The worse NIMBY is BANNA - Build Absolutely Nothing Near Anybody :roll:

Hey - how come this list of smilies got smaller?

I wasn't even aware there were any active, non gated crossing in NYC until now. Heck, I wasn't aware that line was active. I've heard not many others in the area realized it was. The NTSB report should be interesting. One thing I noticed - a car off to the right, flipped upside down. Looks like it h...