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Posted by Sand Box John on Mon Oct 8 07:55:43 2012, in response to Re: WMATA's Kawasaki Rail 7000-rail car series full scale model, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Oct 7 21:32:21 2012. Wasn't there a proposal for Baltimore Metro to build an extension to Laurel which would connect w/ WMATA? Think I remember reading it somewhere. Would've been cool, basically an interurban via heavy rail.In the 1970s ideas like that were tossed about. Even if Baltimore had fully built out the originally planned 71 mile system and expanded to reach the WMATA compact border, through service on shared track would have never happened. The two railroad have different load gauges and platform heights. An idea that was related to me by some one at WMATA was to build a common terminal with cross platform transfers. I suspect that would never happen now on either side, w/ MARC now in the picture. The commuter rail service between the two cities predates the original proposals to build the two systems. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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