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Re: Tour of East Side Abscess New LIRR Terminal Taking Shape Beneath Grand Central Terminal

Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Wed Oct 31 23:59:05 2018, in response to Re: Tour of East Side Abscess New LIRR Terminal Taking Shape Beneath Grand Central Terminal, posted by Dutchrailnut on Wed Oct 31 17:54:37 2018.

In AAR railroading there are clearance diagrams. The history is that less stupid RRs spent the money to make as much of their mainlines as possible accept "high and wide" double stacks, trilevel autoracks, etc. You will remember the arguments as to whether MTA should ever buy any more 75' cars which DON't fit all parts of the IND/BMT. I side with the "buy only cars that fit all of the x division, not only part". folks. Thus my comment which you so kindly call insane. So insane or not, I think standardization has a great deal of value.
Of course, I may be influenced by the fact that BART (I live in the SF Bay Area) was built to a guage not used anywhere else in this hemisphere. As to the potential added expense of providing clearance for catenary in the ESA tunnels, I think history has shown that the corruption/change order/efficiency sabotage on ALL MTA projects is such that the extra cost would be relatively minor.

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