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- From: kaploww@sage.cs.rpi.edu (Wesley Kaplow)
- Subject: Shuttle From Grand Central To Penn. Station
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:50:15 GMT
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- There was never any direct rail service from Grand Central Terminal to
- Penn. Station. There was a "meet here" for a BUS shuttle from
- Grand Central to Penn. Station for thru passengers.
-
- Grand Central is on 42nd Street and Park Ave (right in the middle), and
- Penn. Station is on 33rd between 7th and 8th. It is NOT a short walk
- for someone in a hurry to catch a connection, or if you have a non-trivial
- amount of things to carry. (Note: every 20 blocks ~= 1 mile, with
- blocks in the avenue direction generally MUCH longer than a standard block,
- thus the walking distance between these stations is on the order of
- a mile).
-
- There is non-direct Subway service between the stations. You can take
- either the 42nd Street Shuttle (S train) or the 7 train to 42nd and
- Times Square, then change for any of the 1,2,3, or 9 (here really the same
- as the 1) to 34th and Penn. Station (really 7th avenune). This trip
- generally takes, during the day, about 10 to 15 minutes.)
-
-
- As far as I can tell, the Penn. tracks (going east)
- and the Central tracks do not
- meet until Westchester. I pretty sure this is true because I know the
- Metro-North System very well, and the split for the New Haven line is
- basically on the Bronx-Westchester boarder, right below Mount Vernon.
-
- There is another connection now, which is the so called "Empire Connection"
- (which is what this dicussion is all about). Here the West Side link
- connects to the Hudson Line at Spyten-Dyvill(sp?). Using this path
- would require that trains backup in one direction (not a problem for the
- RTLs and RTGs).
-
-
- Wesley Kaplow
-
-