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Re: Staten Island rail tunnel. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Sun Oct 23 19:50:36 2016, in response to Re: Staten Island rail tunnel., posted by AlM on Sun Oct 23 10:47:30 2016. One more possibility. Ressurect the road railer concept. A train of road railers could travel from New Jersey, thru Penn Station (in the wee hours) out to a newly built Road Railer terminal on Long Island, say around Yaphank, or Calverton where the Mdse could be off loaded to a new RR facility & trucked locally to the consignees instead of thru NYC. No new tunnel, no new bridge,no clearence issues. no 3d rail issues. Everything is in place. A facility along The main line out there twoards Greenport wouldn't interfere much with the commuter traffic, when movements were made at night. On paper it could work. Just get it by the NIMBYS. I remember the road railer concept was intended to be the salvation for all the excess freight traffic in the NYC Metro area. There was at one time a road railer terminal in the Highbridge area of the Bronx. It was there from 1980-83. It failed a/c there wasn't enough reverse freight traffic westbound. IN other words, to many emptys going out. That killed the bottom line. That area now is the Highbridge MNR car appearance facility One plan was to have produce loads of RoadRailers go thru Penn Station to Hunts Point in the summer when the melons were running big time. If that worked out, most produce (in theory) could be shipped that way. With diesel fuel prices going thru the roof at the time, the thought was tempting. But that never worked out. But if at first you don't succeed... |
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