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Re: Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study (Final Report 2018) could cost over $2 Billion |
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Posted by ntrainride on Sat Sep 28 08:51:56 2019, in response to Re: Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study (Final Report 2018) could cost over $2 Billion, posted by Broadway Lion on Sat Feb 10 11:20:04 2018. nah. extend brooklyn service under atlantic avenue into a new tunnel into lower manhattan...the original plan before penn station came about.and you can't blame local railfans' fascination with lower montalk. it's an oddball line for new york city. from what i can see, it's close in spirit to local railroad lines throughout the country. passes through really old (relatively speaking) residential and industrial areas. has freight service, had passenger service. and it served cemeteries too. in the list of all the nyc-area trains I've ridden that ya can't ride no more, that branch runs high on the list of enviable railfan experiences. like the time i walked from jamaica to the richmond hill station and boarded a rush hour train to long island city. richmond hill around the station is a damn fine example of what turn-of-the-(last)-century suburbs looked like, and station is a magnificent remnant of that time period. walking up to the platform there to catch a train was like jumping back a hundred years. too bad that passenger service didn't last long enough to be able to catch a ferry there to midtown and downtown though... |
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