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Old Posted Jan 4, 2013, 4:28 PM
RoldanTTLB RoldanTTLB is offline
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Only the NJ tunnels are fully utilized, and only at peak periods. That certainly complicates building the rail yard in Jersey. The yard in Queens is in fact already large, but it's clear more capacity than that would be needed. It's certainly not impossible to put another yard in Queens somewhere anyway. I'm glad I got everyone thinking about this a little, though. Incidentally, even though the tunnels are at full capacity, the major reason this yard exists is solely because of the jurisdictional issues related to LIRR and NJT using Penn Station. If these trains were run as through trains, they would not need to be stored here (and only LIRR trains are stored here, the NJT through run to Sunnyside for storage). If instead of both agencies having their own "turf" and "through running" only to a yard they instead were made to work together operationally, this whole issue would go away completely, as would many of the space constraint arguments made for not bringing MNR trains into Penn Station right now.