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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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| (...) 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 (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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