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Re: LIRR East Side Access

Posted by WillD on Tue May 23 00:26:04 2006, in response to Re: LIRR East Side Access, posted by Olog-hai on Tue May 23 00:02:28 2006.

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No it doesn't. Here's the whole passage from page 52 of the Second Edition:
"Its transportation capacity was enormous. In the 1920's, when the long haul passenger train was at its zenith and the Twentieth Century Limited often ran in three to six sections, New York Central and New Haven Traffic in and out of the terminal averaged almost 500 daily trains and 134,000 passngers. On one record day 800 trains, aggregating over 6000 cars and carrying more than 166,000 passengers, arrived or left Grand Central.
During World War II even greater traffic levels were recorded. By the end of the war daily traffic averaged 600 trains and 180,000 passengers, and on a record breaking Thanksgiving evening in 1945 more than 240,000 passengers passed through Grand Central's vast spaces."

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