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Posted by Michael549 on Fri Sep 18 13:32:20 2009, in response to Re: Tunnel stubs, posted by Subterranean Railway on Fri Sep 18 12:53:34 2009. Let's look at this another way. The entire section north of the 135th Street station is the switches and flying junctions for the connection of the Concourse line and Washington Heights branch of the A, AA, B and (and now) C lines. In effect the easiest way to get an A-train to the Bronx is simply to follow the path of a D-train.So why build an additional trackway from the upper level that is beginning to turn away on St. Nicholas Avenue to the diverging Concourse line? This idea is even more puzzling especially when there isn't a provision for a similar south bound track. Here's what I think - the IND had money to spend, or money to burn. The architecture of the area, the streets and avenues, the trackpaths of the trains, the engineering to support the whole operation simply creates blank un-used spaces. Especially since there is no record of any plans of the IND having anything other than a Washington Heights Branch and a Concourse branch. While in other places in the IND there were "tunnel-stubs" to what would be turnoffs to other IND-Second System lines in a spaghetti-like configuration, I do not think that is the case here. Mike |
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