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Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Oct 3 10:38:09 2007, in response to Re: LIRR needs to improve ROW maintenance; new dieseld, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Wed Oct 3 10:34:33 2007. While they would work on the Greenport line, they would never be adequate for east of Speonk service on the Montauk Branch (which runs the longest diesel trains on the LIRR!!)The LIRR did not order them because they only had the Ronkonkoma, Oyster Bay, Port Jeff, and Montauk branches that would be able to use them, and most of those lines needed full length trains. The only place they used them was on the daytime Patchogue-Babylon scoot (which would never work today), and on the Greenport line. The other LIRR low use lines were electrified, such as West Hempstead. The LIRR didn't think it was "special", they didn't have all these little lightly used diesel only lines like the New York Central and even more so, the New Haven RR had. |
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