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Re: Andy's Almanac - February 6 |
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Posted by Joe on Sat Feb 6 12:29:51 2016, in response to Re: Andy's Almanac - February 6, posted by Dan on Sat Feb 6 11:26:50 2016. For twenty of the years we lived on Marble Hill, Broadway-7th Avenue expresses were our only service. Certainly, I can recall (as a member of the flat-nose club) waiting for a Lenox Local to cross in front of us as we approached 96th Street. However, the ability to run express thereafter was remarkable. I think the only restrictive timer was on the dip into 42nd Street station, where there once had been a derailment.--- Northbound, we would cross over from express to local at 96th Street. Yes, these were at-grade crossings, and they did sometimes block other traffic. However, I have to state that the advertised high-speed local could be a pain because of holds. For seven years in the 1960's, I traveled from Marble Hill to South Ferry on Saturday afternoons. Would I win the gamble of moving to an express at 96th Street? At least half the time, I awaited my original local at Chambers Street. The other 50% of the time, I would catch his leader. --- Nowadays, northbound and southbound expresses meet restrictive timers that needlessly take the rapid out of rapid transit. |
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