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Re: Yankee Stadium and the old IRT 9th Ave. El Connection |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Sep 23 16:29:03 2008, in response to Re: Yankee Stadium and the old IRT 9th Ave. El Connection, posted by randyo on Tue Sep 23 16:12:40 2008. In 1989 when I went to Chicago, Amtrak trains that were former NYC or NH trains operated into GCT regularlyWhat former New Haven trains went to GCT? I don't recall Amtrak running trains up the New Haven Line from GCT; only out of NYP. Sometime in the 1990s (I'm not sure of the exact year), all Amtrak service was routed into Penn Station and GCT became exclusively the domain of the MTA The year was 1991. Amtrak did it to save over $600K a year in fees to the MTA (that would be over $965K in 2008 dollars) and to get rid of the need for the shuttle bus. But shortly afterwards IIRC, Amtrak had to spend a few million to erect a fence along the West Side Line after some trespassing kid was killed. |
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