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Re: If the Broadway Line had been built north of 57th-7th |
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Posted by randyo on Mon Sep 7 15:23:59 2020, in response to Re: If the Broadway Line had been built north of 57th-7th, posted by Elkeeper on Mon Sep 7 13:58:41 2020. Many people post that the IRT was built deliberately narrow to discourage takeover by large railroads but I doubt that was the case. At the time, IRT sized cars were state of the art for railroad coaches as evidenced by the fact that the LIRR MP41s were dimensionally identical to the IRT Gibbs cars. Also the H & M which was only a few years newer than the IRT was built to similar specs even though it had joint operation on the Newark Line with the PRR. I doubt that McAdoo would have objected if the PRR could have accessed Hudson terminal or 33 St. By the time of the Dual Contracts, RRs were building larger rolling stock and it was then that the PSC specified that the new subways were to be built to accommodate the larger RR cars that were becoming the norm. |
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