• 60 years ago--camp trains at GCT

    From hancock4@hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com to misc.transport.rail.americas on Thu Jul 19 12:58:52 2018
  • From JG@jgrove24@hotmail.com to misc.transport.rail.americas on Sat Jul 21 12:03:54 2018
    On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 2:58:53 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    https://books.google.com/books?id=fyhIAAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=%22grand%20central%20terminal%22%20camp%20trains&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

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    Seems like Pataki's East Side Access for LIRR to GCT will be an overpriced flop. How do you move passengers up 14 stories on escalators ?? Maybe ESA will be a shelter for Manhattan fancies when the asteroid strike hits ?? Is there a link to Saks Fifth and the Waldorf via FDR's secret tunnels ??
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  • From hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk@hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk to misc.transport.rail.americas on Sat Jul 21 21:44:18 2018
    On 21/07/2018 20:03, JG wrote:
    On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 2:58:53 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    https://books.google.com/books?id=fyhIAAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=%22grand%20central%20terminal%22%20camp%20trains&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

    (center of frame)

    Seems like Pataki's East Side Access for LIRR to GCT will be an overpriced flop. How do you move passengers up 14 stories on escalators ?? Maybe ESA will be a shelter for Manhattan fancies when the asteroid strike hits ?? Is there a link to Saks Fifth and the Waldorf via FDR's secret tunnels ??


    It might be a naive question, but was there never a possibility to
    perhaps build a station on the East Side in the LIRR tunnel before
    trains duck under the East River?
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  • From hancock4@hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com to misc.transport.rail.americas on Mon Jul 23 13:20:54 2018
    On Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 4:44:24 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
    On 21/07/2018 20:03, JG wrote:
    On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 2:58:53 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    https://books.google.com/books?id=fyhIAAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=%22grand%20central%20terminal%22%20camp%20trains&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

    (center of frame)

    Seems like Pataki's East Side Access for LIRR to GCT will be an overpriced flop. How do you move passengers up 14 stories on escalators ?? Maybe ESA will be a shelter for Manhattan fancies when the asteroid strike hits ?? Is there a link to Saks Fifth and the Waldorf via FDR's secret tunnels ??


    It might be a naive question, but was there never a possibility to
    perhaps build a station on the East Side in the LIRR tunnel before
    trains duck under the East River?
    There has always been two stations--Hunterspoint Ave and
    Long Island City.
    The LIRR would like people to use those stations to take some of
    the load off of Penna Sta, but then they'd transfer to the No. 7
    subway which is very crowded, so that's not a solution.
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  • From hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk@hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk to misc.transport.rail.americas on Mon Jul 23 22:56:44 2018
    On 23/07/2018 21:20, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    On Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 4:44:24 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
    On 21/07/2018 20:03, JG wrote:
    On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 2:58:53 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >>>> https://books.google.com/books?id=fyhIAAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=%22grand%20central%20terminal%22%20camp%20trains&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

    (center of frame)

    Seems like Pataki's East Side Access for LIRR to GCT will be an overpriced flop. How do you move passengers up 14 stories on escalators ?? Maybe ESA will be a shelter for Manhattan fancies when the asteroid strike hits ?? Is there a link to Saks Fifth and the Waldorf via FDR's secret tunnels ??


    It might be a naive question, but was there never a possibility to
    perhaps build a station on the East Side in the LIRR tunnel before
    trains duck under the East River?

    There has always been two stations--Hunterspoint Ave and
    Long Island City.

    I know, but I was referring to the prospect of another station on the
    East Side of Manhattan.

    The LIRR would like people to use those stations to take some of
    the load off of Penna Sta, but then they'd transfer to the No. 7
    subway which is very crowded, so that's not a solution.

    Indeed, that is not a solution, as we saw in the case of the NYW&B.




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  • From JG@jgrove24@hotmail.com to misc.transport.rail.americas on Thu Jul 26 17:35:03 2018
    On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 4:56:50 PM UTC-5, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
    On 23/07/2018 21:20, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    On Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 4:44:24 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
    On 21/07/2018 20:03, JG wrote:
    On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 2:58:53 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    https://books.google.com/books?id=fyhIAAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=%22grand%20central%20terminal%22%20camp%20trains&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

    (center of frame)

    Seems like Pataki's East Side Access for LIRR to GCT will be an overpriced flop. How do you move passengers up 14 stories on escalators ?? Maybe ESA will be a shelter for Manhattan fancies when the asteroid strike hits ?? Is there a link to Saks Fifth and the Waldorf via FDR's secret tunnels ??


    It might be a naive question, but was there never a possibility to
    perhaps build a station on the East Side in the LIRR tunnel before
    trains duck under the East River?

    There has always been two stations--Hunterspoint Ave and
    Long Island City.

    I know, but I was referring to the prospect of another station on the
    East Side of Manhattan.

    The LIRR would like people to use those stations to take some of
    the load off of Penna Sta, but then they'd transfer to the No. 7
    subway which is very crowded, so that's not a solution.

    Indeed, that is not a solution, as we saw in the case of the NYW&B.
    I assume that the tunnels heading East from Penn start descending towards the East River, the potential site of an "East Side Stop" in Manhattan around say, Park Ave, would be 100 feet or so below street level, I rekkin.
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  • From Clark F Morris@cfmpublic@ns.sympatico.ca to misc.transport.rail.americas on Thu Jul 26 22:16:51 2018
    On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:35:03 -0700 (PDT), JG <jgrove24@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 4:56:50 PM UTC-5, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
    On 23/07/2018 21:20, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    On Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 4:44:24 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: >> >> On 21/07/2018 20:03, JG wrote:
    On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 2:58:53 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    https://books.google.com/books?id=fyhIAAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=%22grand%20central%20terminal%22%20camp%20trains&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

    (center of frame)

    Seems like Pataki's East Side Access for LIRR to GCT will be an overpriced flop. How do you move passengers up 14 stories on escalators ?? Maybe ESA will be a shelter for Manhattan fancies when the asteroid strike hits ?? Is there a link to Saks Fifth and the Waldorf via FDR's secret tunnels ??


    It might be a naive question, but was there never a possibility to
    perhaps build a station on the East Side in the LIRR tunnel before
    trains duck under the East River?

    There has always been two stations--Hunterspoint Ave and
    Long Island City.

    I know, but I was referring to the prospect of another station on the
    East Side of Manhattan.

    The LIRR would like people to use those stations to take some of
    the load off of Penna Sta, but then they'd transfer to the No. 7
    subway which is very crowded, so that's not a solution.

    Indeed, that is not a solution, as we saw in the case of the NYW&B.

    I assume that the tunnels heading East from Penn start descending towards the East River, the potential site of an "East Side Stop" in Manhattan around say, Park Ave, would be 100 feet or so below street level, I rekkin.


    I remember seeing proposals in the New Yorks Times for the Kips Bay or
    East Side Station. Given the depth of the LIRR Grand Central Station
    100 feet isn't that much. Having that station serve both the LIRR and
    NJT could ease conditions in Penn Station.

    Clark Morris
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  • From John W Gintell@john@gintell.org to misc.transport.rail.americas on Fri Jul 27 12:14:35 2018
    On 7/26/18 9:16 PM, Clark F Morris wrote:
    On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:35:03 -0700 (PDT), JG <jgrove24@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 4:56:50 PM UTC-5, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
    On 23/07/2018 21:20, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    On Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 4:44:24 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: >>>>> On 21/07/2018 20:03, JG wrote:
    On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 2:58:53 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    https://books.google.com/books?id=fyhIAAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=%22grand%20central%20terminal%22%20camp%20trains&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

    (center of frame)

    Seems like Pataki's East Side Access for LIRR to GCT will be an overpriced flop. How do you move passengers up 14 stories on escalators ?? Maybe ESA will be a shelter for Manhattan fancies when the asteroid strike hits ?? Is there a link to Saks Fifth and the Waldorf via FDR's secret tunnels ??


    It might be a naive question, but was there never a possibility to
    perhaps build a station on the East Side in the LIRR tunnel before
    trains duck under the East River?

    There has always been two stations--Hunterspoint Ave and
    Long Island City.

    I know, but I was referring to the prospect of another station on the
    East Side of Manhattan.

    The LIRR would like people to use those stations to take some of
    the load off of Penna Sta, but then they'd transfer to the No. 7
    subway which is very crowded, so that's not a solution.

    Indeed, that is not a solution, as we saw in the case of the NYW&B.

    I assume that the tunnels heading East from Penn start descending towards the East River, the potential site of an "East Side Stop" in Manhattan around say, Park Ave, would be 100 feet or so below street level, I rekkin.


    I remember seeing proposals in the New Yorks Times for the Kips Bay or
    East Side Station. Given the depth of the LIRR Grand Central Station
    100 feet isn't that much. Having that station serve both the LIRR and
    NJT could ease conditions in Penn Station.

    Clark Morris

    The Metro stations in Tblisi, Georgia are deeper than that - high speed escalators. (I was there last month).

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  • From hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk@hounslow3@yahoo.co.uk to misc.transport.rail.americas on Fri Jul 27 19:25:12 2018
    On 27/07/2018 17:14, John W Gintell wrote:
    On 7/26/18 9:16 PM, Clark F Morris wrote:
    On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:35:03 -0700 (PDT), JG <jgrove24@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 4:56:50 PM UTC-5, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: >>>> On 23/07/2018 21:20, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    On Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 4:44:24 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk >>>>> wrote:
    On 21/07/2018 20:03, JG wrote:
    On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 2:58:53 PM UTC-5,
    hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    https://books.google.com/books?id=fyhIAAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=%22grand%20central%20terminal%22%20camp%20trains&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false


    (center of frame)

    Seems like Pataki's East Side Access for LIRR to GCT will be an >>>>>>> overpriced flop. How do you move passengers up 14 stories on
    escalators ?? Maybe ESA will be a shelter for Manhattan fancies >>>>>>> when the asteroid strike hits ??-a Is there a link to Saks Fifth >>>>>>> and the Waldorf via FDR's secret tunnels ??


    It might be a naive question, but was there never a possibility to >>>>>> perhaps build a station on the East Side in the LIRR tunnel before >>>>>> trains duck under the East River?

    There has always been two stations--Hunterspoint Ave and
    Long Island City.

    I know, but I was referring to the prospect of another station on the
    East Side of Manhattan.

    The LIRR would like people to use those stations to take some of
    the load off of Penna Sta, but then they'd transfer to the No. 7
    subway which is very crowded, so that's not a solution.

    Indeed, that is not a solution, as we saw in the case of the NYW&B.

    I assume that the tunnels heading East from Penn start descending
    towards the East River, the potential site of an "East Side Stop" in
    Manhattan around say, Park Ave, would be 100 feet or so below street
    level, I rekkin.


    I remember seeing proposals in the New Yorks Times for the Kips Bay or
    East Side Station.-a Given the depth of the LIRR Grand Central Station
    100 feet isn't that much.-a Having that station serve both the LIRR and
    NJT could ease conditions in Penn Station.

    Clark Morris

    The Metro stations in Tblisi, Georgia are deeper than that - high speed escalators. (I was there last month) >

    ba?baobacbaobaobaAbay baibaEbaobaAbaubaabay, baobaybaobaubaabao.

    Many metros in the former Soviet Union, as well as in former socialist
    states around Europe, are deep level.

    The deepest such station on a metro in the former Soviet Union, and in
    the world, is Arsenal'na, on the Kiev Metro.
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  • From JG@jgrove24@hotmail.com to misc.transport.rail.americas on Fri Jul 27 18:22:45 2018
    On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 8:16:53 PM UTC-5, Clark F Morris wrote:
    On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:35:03 -0700 (PDT), JG <jgrove24@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 4:56:50 PM UTC-5, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
    On 23/07/2018 21:20, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    On Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 4:44:24 PM UTC-4, houn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
    On 21/07/2018 20:03, JG wrote:
    On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 2:58:53 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
    https://books.google.com/books?id=fyhIAAAAIBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=%22grand%20central%20terminal%22%20camp%20trains&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

    (center of frame)

    Seems like Pataki's East Side Access for LIRR to GCT will be an overpriced flop. How do you move passengers up 14 stories on escalators ?? Maybe ESA will be a shelter for Manhattan fancies when the asteroid strike hits ?? Is there a link to Saks Fifth and the Waldorf via FDR's secret tunnels ??


    It might be a naive question, but was there never a possibility to
    perhaps build a station on the East Side in the LIRR tunnel before
    trains duck under the East River?

    There has always been two stations--Hunterspoint Ave and
    Long Island City.

    I know, but I was referring to the prospect of another station on the
    East Side of Manhattan.

    The LIRR would like people to use those stations to take some of
    the load off of Penna Sta, but then they'd transfer to the No. 7
    subway which is very crowded, so that's not a solution.

    Indeed, that is not a solution, as we saw in the case of the NYW&B.

    I assume that the tunnels heading East from Penn start descending towards the East River, the potential site of an "East Side Stop" in Manhattan around say, Park Ave, would be 100 feet or so below street level, I rekkin.


    I remember seeing proposals in the New Yorks Times for the Kips Bay or
    East Side Station. Given the depth of the LIRR Grand Central Station
    100 feet isn't that much. Having that station serve both the LIRR and
    NJT could ease conditions in Penn Station.

    Clark Morris
    I wonder how deep the LIRR tunnels are at around 4th Ave. ??
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  • From John Levine@johnl@taugh.com to misc.transport.rail.americas on Sat Jul 28 01:41:33 2018
    In article <387f7a55-5b7b-4ea7-8fd2-ac93a9d527ca@googlegroups.com>,
    JG <jgrove24@hotmail.com> wrote:
    I remember seeing proposals in the New Yorks Times for the Kips Bay or
    East Side Station. Given the depth of the LIRR Grand Central Station
    100 feet isn't that much. Having that station serve both the LIRR and
    NJT could ease conditions in Penn Station.

    I wonder how deep the LIRR tunnels are at around 4th Ave. ??

    A picture in the Wikipedia article says the top of the tunnels is 65
    feet below sea level under the East River. So at 4th ave they're
    probably something like 50 feet down.



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    John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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  • From JG@jgrove24@hotmail.com to misc.transport.rail.americas on Sun Jul 29 11:58:06 2018
    On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 8:41:35 PM UTC-5, John Levine wrote:
    In article <387f7a55-5b7b-4ea7-8fd2-ac93a9d527ca@googlegroups.com>,
    JG <jgrove24@hotmail.com> wrote:
    I remember seeing proposals in the New Yorks Times for the Kips Bay or
    East Side Station. Given the depth of the LIRR Grand Central Station
    100 feet isn't that much. Having that station serve both the LIRR and
    NJT could ease conditions in Penn Station.

    I wonder how deep the LIRR tunnels are at around 4th Ave. ??

    A picture in the Wikipedia article says the top of the tunnels is 65
    feet below sea level under the East River. So at 4th ave they're
    probably something like 50 feet down.



    --
    Regards,
    John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
    Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
    https://archive.org/stream/pennsylvaniarail00mill/pennsylvaniarail00mill_djvu.txt
    Copyright, 1908,
    "In the great yard between 9th and 8th Aves., 60 feet below the surface, the two
    tracks multiply to 21 and pass through the station (p. 15) at a depth of 40 ft.; at 7th
    Ave. the tracks, converging into six, enter three-track tunnels, one under 32d St. and
    one under 33d; near 6th Ave., at a depth cf 75 ft. , these tunnels change from two wide
    arches to two twin arches, carrying four tracks to 1st Ave., where they enter four separate
    tubes which extend under the East River, a distance of 3,916 ft.; near the Long Island
    shore the tunnels begin to converge and they meet in an open cut (p. 16) that leads into
    the Sunnyside yards at Thompson Ave. , 2.85 miles from the station entrance in Seventh
    Ave. Alfred Noble is chief engineer for all work east of 9th Ave., with Charles L.
    Harrison as chief assistant engineer."
    So if its 75 feet deep at 6th ave, by Park ave they must be heading towards 100 ft deep, or so.
    If you put the outbound station platform on 33rd between Park and Madison, and the inbound station on 34th, the question is what kind of space exists under the streets to dig new stations and connect to the Lex. subway ? The adjoining buildings may be needed to house the "station" on their street level.
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