by Kilgore Trout
I've been riding the Lex a bunch lately and have noticed a few things...
1) Why do the express tracks dip down around 33rd Street? Is that part of the grade into Grand Central?
2) Any ideas what the fifth track at Spring Street was for? I'm imagining a holding track for express trains waiting for entry to Brooklyn Bridge.
3) Why are all the crossovers at 125th Street so convoluted? Wouldn't it be easier to keep locals on the upper level, with the uptown local on the east side the whole way through and flying the downtown local over the express tracks, and then putting the express tracks in both directions on the lower level? Obviously it's a bit late to change it but why was the current entanglement built?
1) Why do the express tracks dip down around 33rd Street? Is that part of the grade into Grand Central?
2) Any ideas what the fifth track at Spring Street was for? I'm imagining a holding track for express trains waiting for entry to Brooklyn Bridge.
3) Why are all the crossovers at 125th Street so convoluted? Wouldn't it be easier to keep locals on the upper level, with the uptown local on the east side the whole way through and flying the downtown local over the express tracks, and then putting the express tracks in both directions on the lower level? Obviously it's a bit late to change it but why was the current entanglement built?
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