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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Jan 19 12:22:40 2006, in response to Re: Richmond Hill, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Jan 19 12:10:18 2006. Subway would be ideal for this line. You would need the frequency of subway service to make the line sucessful. The LIRR is not in the rapid transit business, so there is no way the LIRR would work out for the service necessary on the line to make it both useful and attractive to use.That being said, that would mean seperate ROW's would be necessary. The line is basically two tracks, and in some areas there are sidings that would allow for three tracks. The remaining sections would have to be widened to allow for a third track. I think the line could work with one track, bidirectional (with some passing sidings) for the freight on the line, which MUST remain. The other two tracks would be for the subway, one in each direction. The other option that would work is light rail. That would also provide the necessary headways needed for the line, however, light rail, like the subway, also needs the seperate tracks from the freight tracks pass federal law. The line would in essence be like RIverfront streetcar line in New Orleans operates. The streetcars (light rail) operate on two tracks, and the heavy rail operates on the third track, bidirectional. Of course they don't share tracks (just the ROW itself): In this photo the heavy rail is using the outer third track, and streetcar is using the middle streetcar track.  In this photo the UP freight is running in the opposite direction as the red engine in the above photo, but on the same track, and you can see the two streetcar tracks in the foreground:  This is in essence how the Montauck Branch would be run if it were to have subway or light rail added. |
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