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Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Oct 2 20:13:04 2007, in response to Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Oct 2 19:56:45 2007. Technically he is right, the original LIRR charter states that that line must ALWAYS have passenger service run on it, otherwise the land reverts back to the adjoining property owners. THAT is why the line had that bizarre local passenger service on it for so long. But in 1998, the lawyers were somehow able to take the local service off through loophole I guess, so they could probably get away with the round trip diesel opassenger run they do on it if they somehow change the wording or something. The only reason that line DOES get that one round trip is because of that stipulation in the line's covenants.But that being said, diesel isn't leaving the LIRR any time soon. It would be assinie to electrify east of RIverhead or Patchogue/Speonk on the Montauk Branch. |
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