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Re: Subway Connections to national rail |
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Posted by BMT Guy on Sun Oct 8 23:43:16 2006, in response to Re: Subway Connections to national rail, posted by J trainloco on Sun Oct 8 21:51:57 2006. Canarsie-LIRR connection was severed sometime in the late '80's or early '90s once the 'Y' connection was made that goes from both the IRT (at Junius Street) and the BMT via Canarsie (at Livonia Ave.) was installed around circa, 1989, and merges into the lead to Linden Yards. There is to be found the 'dark' signal that allows movement between Linden Yard and the 'Y' flyover.The original LIRR connection was a wrong-rail move from the Canarsie line as well, since it was a left-hand switch out of the southbound track just north of the New Lots Avenue station. There is still a remnant of the switch there as well as the gated fence. The switch was not always there, because IIRC it was originally placed there so there the R-16 subway cars (last used on the Canarsie Line) could be easily scrapped. This simplified things, since normal scrap procedures would have required the 16's to moved all the way down to Coney Island Yards, which is a long route through the system from the EAstern Division. |
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