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Re: Tuscarora Almanac for February 3 and a Train of the Week |
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Posted by zac on Tue Feb 3 12:53:11 2026, in response to Tuscarora Almanac for February 3 and a Train of the Week, posted by irtredbirdr33 on Tue Feb 3 09:14:41 2026. When they constructed the Smith St line they made a big mistake in the way the tracks were configured, limiting operation to what it still is today.They knew that running expresses there would never work and right from the beginning used Smith/9th St as a terminal stop, with trains crossing over on the express tracks, thus eliminating them from through service. They also created a slow merge at Bergen, so that Manhattan trains were the ones that had to merge/diverge from the local tracks. Running Crosstown as the only local didn't work because it bypassed all the busy stations, as they discovered post-Chrystie. Maybe it would've been better to have the express tracks connect directly to Crosstown, and the local tracks to Manhattan, but that would be the opposite of Queens. Run the Crosstown as an express from Church Ave, nobody would complain, and some Manhattan riders would use it to gain a few minutes maybe. Anyway, the Smith/Culver viaduct is one of the biggest wastes of the IND. |
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