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Canarsie Line

Posted by alantrain on Thu May 14 13:20:21 2020

I grew up in ENY right next to the Canarsie Line near New Lots Ave station. In the forties and fifties, 3 services ran in the PM rush. Locals all stops 8th Ave to Myrtle, then retrun to NY, Express- All stops to Lorimer St and then express to Myrtle, then all stops to Canarsie, also a Fulton Express- all stops to Lorimer St then express to Myrtle and then all stops to Lefferts Ave ( not Blvd at that time). They used Standards on the Canarsie runs, and Multis as well, even the "blue train" (that was cute) .and Only multies ( lighter weight) on the Lefferts run.
Does any one know, after all the money spent on automation now, whether more or less trains run as compared to then? Also, is the time shortened on the end to end runs? Wasn't there talk of instituting express runs again? Yes, one train cannot pass another on the line, but what happened was the Canarsie bound expresses had less people as there were so many stations bypassed.

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