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Re: LIRR CHARTER: Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study (Final Report 2018) |
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Posted by sloth on Mon Feb 12 20:59:47 2018, in response to Re: LIRR CHARTER: Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study (Final Report 2018), posted by gp38/r42 chris on Mon Feb 12 17:28:38 2018. Richmond Hill had some strategic importance in case of a prolonged service disruption on the J.As for the others, here's a cynical yet plausible theory. The LIRR operated their own freight until 5-1997. A freight crew picking up equipment elsewhere and laying it up in Fresh Pond, or one of the smaller yards, would be paid back on paper to their original terminal. Joe Public is better off not knowing how railroaders make their money, so let's just say there are a few different ways of calculating that deadhead, and there are definitely times when the presence of a train station at Fresh Pond, and occasionally Haberman, would have saved the LIRR some penalty payments. NYAR takes over, and the stations close soon afterwards. But the "out of sight, out of mind" explanation also makes sense. If the eastbound Oyster Bays show up at Jamaica when they're supposed to, who cares where they stop? It's not like the stations were costing much in maintainance money either. |
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