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Posted by randyo on Mon Apr 27 04:11:12 2009, in response to Re: Tunnel stubs, posted by bigrene22 on Thu Mar 12 09:48:22 2009. R3 and R4 come together into a single tail track immediately south of the station which like all BMT/IND middle tracks is numbered R3/4. With the discussion of "railroad north" and "railroad south" the situation gets complicated at the physical south end of Chambers St. In pre Chrystie terminology, all trains passing through Bkln enroute to Manhattan regardless of point of origin were northbound. The track numberings bear this out. Prior to the completion of the Nassau Loop, all BMT trains stub ended at Chambers St. Trains from Jamaica and Metro terminated on J2 and J4 and trains from Stl terminated on J1 and J3. When the tracks to Nassau St were completed, they were given Southern Division track numbers so that trains "changed direction" leaving Chambers St without physically changing ends. J2 becomes R1 and J1 becomes R2. To complicate things further, the towerman at Broad St was an Eastern Div Tw/M so all trains he recorded arriving from Chambers St on his gap sheets were recorded as "northbound" including Culver and West End locals bound for Stillwell. With the establishment of through service fom the Eastern Div into the Southern, first the QJ and then the M, the TA decided that trains leaving Jamaica were to be considered "southbound" for their entire trip. The services not going into the Southern Division were still considered "northbound." after the M and QJ (now J) swapped southern terminals, the Broad St bound J was never changed back to a "northbound" service so the Eastern Division is the only place on the BMT/IND Division that has its tracks numbered backwards. |
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