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- From: jis@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (jishnu.mukerji)
- Subject: Re: Shuttle From Grand Central To Penn. Station
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:07:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.230740.20242@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
- References: <z631mm_@rpi.edu>
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- In article <z631mm_@rpi.edu> kaploww@sage.cs.rpi.edu (Wesley Kaplow) writes:
- >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.
-
- The Hell Gate Bridge Line joins the Metro North New Haven Line just
- west of New Rochelle station, at what used to be Shell Interlocking,
- now it is CP Shell or CP <some number> and is controlled from MNCR's
- CTC on Madison Avenue. This interclocking is going to be modified
- drastically in the near future with the addition of a flyover to
- reduce contention between westbound Amtrak trains and eastbound MNCR
- trains.
-
- >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).
-
- The completion of the Empire Connection resulted in the discontinuance
- of Amtrak service to Grand Central, and hence discontinuance of the
- shuttle in question.
-
- BTW, in the old NYCRR days there used to be a connection from the
- Suyten Duyvil bridge to the NYCRR mainline towards Marble Hill that
- would have made such a service possible without backup moves. But that
- connection was severed when Metro North changed the layout at Spuyten
- Duyvil station. The old track can still be seen in the overgrowth.
-
-
- Jishnu Mukerji
- jis@usl.com
-