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Discussion relating to the past and present operations of the NYC Subway, PATH, and Staten Island Railway (SIRT).

Moderator: GirlOnTheTrain

 #886878  by Passenger
 
First see this:
http://images.nycsubway.org/trackmap/detail-pitkin.png

The four track line simply ends abruptly NE of Euclid. Very unlike for example the turn around after 179th Jamaica. I'm guessing that it was intended to continue but didn't get built.

Where was it supposed to go?

Did they just run out of money and connect to the end of the Fulton Street El instead? Or was it preparation for part of the second system? Or something else?

Related questions: How were end of the line turns at Euclid originally handled? How were short turns at Euclid handled in more recent times? I have a vague maybe false childhood memory of it being the last stop on the local track.
 #899593  by Patrick Boylan
 
Kamen, are you trying to say that the map shows it's possible to cross over from any track to another track at Euclid Ave?
For example
outbound locals go to outbound express track before Euclid Ave station, go to inbound express track and then inbound from yard track after the station, change ends and go to inbound local track before the station
outbound express go to outbound local before the station, go to outbound to yard track after the station, change ends and go to outbound express then inbound express before the station then if they want inbound local after the station
etc...