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Posted by Michael549 on Thu Oct 30 22:13:03 2014, in response to Re: (R) train service still sucks, posted by BrooklynTrain on Thu Oct 30 12:16:03 2014. Help me out here.I can understand that the R-train on Queens Blvd shares its tracks and terminal with the M-train, until Queens Plaza. I can understand a bottleneck with the switching of the M-trains between the R and E train tracks. (Except that on the weekends the R-trains have exclusive usage of the Queens Blvd local tracks and terminal.) Then at the 60th Street tunnel, the R-train has to be switched both into and out of the stream of N and Q trains for the journey both to/from Manhattan. (Except that on the weekends only the N and R trains use the 60th Street tunnel - unless there's something happening on the #7 line.) Then at/about 42nd Street/34th Street, the Q-train may/may not be switched into/out of the stream of N and R trains to/from Queens. (On the weekends both N & R trains are local, and the Q-train starts/ends at 57th Street unless there's something happening on the #7 line.) Then again near the Prince Street station, the N-trains have to be switched into/out of the stream of R-trains to/from the Manhattan Bridge. Then possibly at the Whitehall Street station some R-trains may terminate there, and possibly some R-trains terminate at the Canal Street station (to use the trackage about the City Hall station). Unless there's a work-train, the R-train alone uses the Montaque Street tunnel to the DeKalb Avenue station. Unless there's something going on, the R-train has the exclusive use of the Brooklyn 4th Avenue local tracks both to and from the 36th Street and 59th Street stations, and of the tracks to/from the 95th Street terminal. Wondering, Mike. |
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