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Posted by Michael549 on Sat Jan 17 23:12:50 2015, in response to Re: Madison Cylindrical Garden, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sat Jan 17 20:01:06 2015. Before the north terminal change on the C or CC trains, during the rush hours CC trains ran along Eighth Avenue direct to the Bronx as the local counter-part to the rush hour D-trains. Meaning there was a direct path to Yankee Stadium during the rush hours for decades. The Eighth Avenue and Grand Concourse CC local train existed for about 40 years, long before its current setup was adopted.In the 1930's, there was a regular C-train Concourse/Eighth Avenue express train, as well as the rush hour CC local trains. Being able to get to Yankee Stadium from Penn Station was never seriously a problem. Currently if one is traveling from Penn Station to Yankee Stadium, it is really simple to take the A-train to 125th Street, and stay on the same platform for the D train (as well as rush hour B-trains). On the former IRT lines, the #2, the #4 and the #5 - the setup at 149 Street-Grand Concourse is very simple. A set of curving tracks rises from the lower level #2 and #5 2-side-platform station to meet the #4 train tracks from Jerome Avenue. There are ZERO tracks (as in NONE, ZIP, NADA) from the upper level 3-island-platform station that are lowered down to meet the #2 tracks that are about to enter an underwater tunnel that crosses the Harlem River to get to Lenox Avenue. In fact on the southern-most part of downtown #4 platform one can look down the trackway and see downtown-bound #5 trains joining or being switched onto the downtown #4 tracks. Mike |
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