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Head-end View wrote: Also, someone above mentioned braking. How would the length of an MU consist affect braking?

Also I think the grade from the existing 63rd Street tunnel up to the Park Ave. tracks would be too steep. The F train station at 63rd & Lex is way down there-- as I recall you take 2 or 3 escalators to get to track level-- and the tunnel the LIRR will use is at the same level, if not deeper. A...

why am I having trouble picturing an M1 in a subway tunnel...hmmmm.

Publius Plunkett: Your a tad bit out of touch with reality in your comments at best.The same type of people stand up to bitch and whine about what everyone else does wrong yet you would be the first in line to complain if someone came to you and told you that you couldn't do something on your own p...

That looks pretty nice! At least it looks a lot brighter. I hope the re-do some more cars.

ummm...well...trains don't stop there and when they do, the conductor will only open the door for where the crew is only. And if you happened to get off there, you would probably be arrested by the MTA police for trespassing.

Thank you guys for your info!

Ken, do you know of any particular spots that are good for photographing, anywhere along the Montauk branch?

-Andrew

This is probably an obvious question, but I'll ask it anyway. Do trains that only run to Patchogue and Speonk, sit, wait, and head back to Jamaica, or do they sit in the yard in Montauk? I'm asking this because I'll be heading to Montauk to photograph the line and I want to estimate how many trains ...