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Re: LIRR East Side Access |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Tue May 23 12:59:17 2006, in response to Re: LIRR East Side Access, posted by J trainloco on Tue May 23 12:31:01 2006. The whole purpose of your series of posts in this thread seems to be to put me down.No. I do not want to put you down. Basic railroading concepts allow a faster throughput for trains that do not reverse directions. If you pull a train into the empty West Side yard at say 0500 hours, it would need a second crew to bring it into the platform at say 0830. Moving a train *backwards* through the NYP interlocking is not a trivial matter, and then once at the platform, all of the brake tests must be repeated (for the third time!) Admittedly the time for this last brake test is trivial since the dwell time for a long distance train is greater than that. But here is another consideration. Do AMTK platforms even access the West Side Yards. This I do not know. Obviously the Empire Builder uses it, but maybe it really curtails which platforms may be used for that train. ROAR |
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