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Re: subway info?
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos
Date: 
Sat, 3 Mar 2001 00:20:08 GMT
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message
news:3aa03359.35164452@lugnet.com...
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

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 toy in comparison to their
subway!  MAN that thing is HUGE!!

-Tim



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(...) I would reserve the term "tinker toy" for the San Francisco cable car, which is actually made of wood. (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)

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(...) THAT'S what that noise is?! WOW, that makes sense! And MAN, it's a SCREEE...EEECH. You'd think they were dragging a 4'x8' slab of sheet metal across the tracks. --Todd (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)

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