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In lugnet.trains, Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> writes:
> The Green Line definitely has the most complex trackage of all the lines
> (the Red line is the only other line to actually have a branch), the
> Green Line has several branches. The most interesting Green Line Station
> is Park Street, where not only do you board from grade level, you may
> have to actually cross the tracks to get where you're going. In the Park
> Street station you can also occaisionally hear the evidence of how
> poorly train wheels do extremely right curve radii (some trains turn
> around at Park Street, and actually run through the station heading
> North, and then follow a curved track to U-turn back into the station
> now heading South. The curve radius can't be much more than 100' and boy
> do the wheels complain!
THAT'S what that noise is?! WOW, that makes sense!
And MAN, it's a SCREEEEEEEEECH. You'd think they were dragging a 4'x8' slab
of sheet metal across the tracks.
--Todd
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| "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:3aa03359.351644...net.com... (...) Are there any diagrams online of the track layout at Park Street? That would be very interesting, IMO. After visiting New York, however, the T is a tinker (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| (...) There's even just a bit of El. on the Green Line (though I think it's dramatically reduced from what it once was). I think they're running a restored PCC on the Green Line now for special occaisions. At least one of those stations has a couple (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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