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Re: A Question about the Lower Montauk Branch |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed May 6 22:27:36 2009, in response to Re: A Question about the Lower Montauk Branch, posted by lonerebel on Wed May 6 21:15:24 2009. The line is used for passenger service twice a day, but no longer local...only express LIC to Jamaica. That must be run there as per the original charter of the line. When the line was chartered in the 1800's, there is a stipulation that the line must always be used for passenger service, otherwise the line would revert back to the adjoining property owners.That is the ONLY reason the LIRR ran the quirky strange local service to those stations for as long as it did. Somehow, they used some sort of loophole to allow for the abandonment of the local stations in 1998, but they still must run those two trains on the line each day as per the original charter of the line. |
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