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Re: subway info?
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:23:58 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Frank Filz writes:
<Extolls the virtues of Boston as a source of proto inspiration>
> The main transit types that
> I think are missing would be interurban and monorail (of course there
> are a few other types of train service Boston doesn't have such as high
> speed electric).
Well Boston DOES have Acela, it leaves from South Station. But it's not all
that high speed till it clears the in town trackage...
Of all the T lines I like Green the best because it has so many different
right of way styles (underground ROW, surface separated ROW, surface ROW
down the middle of a boulevard, surface ROW shared with street) and because
of the complex underground trackage. It has some amazing junctions and such.
Because it's trolleylike (insert plug for my PCC model here, I could do it
or a close variant in Green/White if there was enough demand) you board by
climbing steps from grade level. Even underground!
++Lar
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I haven't been in the NYC subways enough to know, but there sure is some interesting stuff in Boston's T stations. Some inspirations I would take from the T: - Track leading off into dark tunnel to nowhere - Old traction equipment which is (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains)
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