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- From: brennan@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Joseph Brennan)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: NEC
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.193336.15053@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:33:36 GMT
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- In article <3249@tymix.Tymnet.COM> romeo@niagara.Tymnet.COM (Michael
- Stimac) writes:
-
- >Could we compromise by saying that the 30th upper trains going
- >west go *through* the NEC?
-
- Well, we'd better compromise somehow!! OK.
-
- I've just moved where I live, but I was digging up my railroad
- materials in boxes last night, thinking I had a track map of the NEC
- someplace, but I guess I don't. The best I have is a diagram that was
- in _Trains_ magazine in the mid-1980's, and while you will be amused
- to know that they chose to show only the NEC side of the Zoo triangle,
- as well as only 30th St lower (represented by a box rather than a plan
- of the multiple tracks in the station), it's not exactly authoritative.
- Some branches aren't shown for some reason. The West Chester branch
- is missing; is it possible that can be accessed only from 30th St
- upper level? I sure hope not, or we can argue over that next.
-
- A Penn Central employee timetable had an interesting approach. Routes
- were shown as:
- Harold (Sunnyside Yard, New York) -- Zoo
- Zoo -- a point west of Harrisburg
- Zoo -- Suburban station (Phila)
- Zoo -- a point at the Virginia end of Potomac River bridge
-
- By this method, Zoo is treated as a 4-way crossing and 30th St upper
- and lower are on two different lines. It wasn't clear exactly what
- point is considered "Zoo". The Belmont Branch and the "West
- Philadelphia elevated line" are further branches but are not given Zoo
- as either end point.
-
- What we want though is a track diagram of Zoo. One showing the switch
- and signal detail would be even more fun! It has been said that Zoo
- will be the very last place on NEC to get modern interlocking control
- since no one wants to tackle programming it.
-
- Joe Brennan Columbia University in the City of New York
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