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Re: Track connections between LIRR and NYCT |
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Posted by Train Man Paul : Metro-North's Best Conductor FOR ALL 3 LINES!!! on Mon Feb 2 07:24:45 2009, in response to Track connections between LIRR and NYCT, posted by JayZeeBMT on Sat Jan 31 16:55:06 2009. "I know there is one track connection between the LIRR (NY & A) Bay Ridge Branch and the NYCT at Van Sinderen Ave just north of New Lots Ave"The connection between the LIRR/NYAR Bay Ridge Branch that used to exist north of New Lots (southbound track) had been removed quite a few years ago. The connection west (south) of the Linden Shop still exists, and was where subway cars (R-142s) coming down from Bombardier were taken to. D&H 416 brought them in to Fresh Pond, and NYAR offloaded them from the flatcars, and under special train orders for speed, took them down to Linden Yard, where NYCT diesels picked them up at the connection (it was said that the NYAR engine actually entered the Linden Shop property to deliver them, but that was never confirmed or observed). Largely, MOW materials and supplies are delivered here. The connection at 38th Street (former South Brooklyn Railway) has been unused for quite sometime, and I have heard the street trackage linking the SBK to the NYAR down Second Avenue in Brooklyn has either been disconnected or removed). No connection that I ever knew of ever existed at Wilson Avenue. At that location, the LIRR/NYAR Bay Ridge right of way paralleled the L Line there, but no connection ever existed. Metro-North has absolutely no connection directly to NYCT property. |
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