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Posted by trainsarefun on Sun Apr 5 10:40:50 2009, in response to Re: Real 11-car Train April Fools Joke, posted by Avid Reader on Sun Apr 5 10:29:29 2009. Can all stations on the Canarsie Line platform a nine car (60ft each car) 540ft train setI am not sure. Like their ex-IND counterparts, the ex-BMT platforms has been artificially shortened in many places. The important part of the territory to cover would be between 8 Av and Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs. Still if you look at bang for the buck potential, it seems to me an obvious solution for the kind of crowding problem that they have on the Canarsie Line. It couldn't be more expensive than CBTC, after all, to work on restoration of 540' platforms, if necessary. If so, then a four car set and a five car set should be combined and run for several time slots to ease the over crowding. As to the actual mechanics of it, I'm not qualified to speak on whether that's feasible, although I imagine that if an 11 car train is feasible, then that's reason to think that so too is a 9 car train. If it's really a huge problem, and it wouldn't foul any interlockings, I suppose that even in the case that a 9 car train were not feasible, just run a 10 car train, and close the rearmost car off on each trip. |
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