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From: percus@acf4.UUCP (Allon G. Percus)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: Forwarding: Re: Signaling on the NYC Subway
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 18:27:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 18:27:00 1986
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> It seems that NYC subway signaling is hot topic.  If memory serves
> correct, there was only 1 subway station in NYC that the passangers had
> to actually cross the tracks to reach the station.  Where is the station ?
> And was there special signalling there ?

I believe you are referring to one of the stations out on the Canarsie
line in Brooklyn (it is now called the "L" train), where there was,
until the '70's, a level crossing.  There was no special track
signalling that I know of, just a gate man to operate the crossing.
The level crossing was later replaced by a more conventional bridge.

I think I read about this in Stan Fischler's "Uptown, Downtown" ---
if not that, it must have been Brian Cudahy's "Under the Sidewalks
of New York" (which, if I may say so, is the most definitive
book on the NYC subway system which I've ever read).

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