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(rshsdepot) Amtrak service on the Hell Gate

Yesterday a train, going west, east of the Hells Gate Bridge, that came to a stop 4:10 PM on Blackout Day (our clocks said 4:11, so we can call it 411) , over Randall's Island....It was moved at 7:30.

An enclosed non-air conditioned train high above an Island and the water sits in boiling heat for almost 3 and a half hours.....just about two miles away there are various and sundry diesel locomotives....yet for some stupid reason (there are no grade crossings between, any problem with switches was irrelevant since all else was immobile (I think everything on this structure now--passenger-wise-- is electric running, except freight and that had been no doubt halted...)

So why exactly wasn't this train pushed or pulled somewhere faster than over 3 hours...it probably takes 12 minutes from Sunnyside to the other side of the Hell's Gate. What gives...


Anyway I am trying to search for this, but Google wouldn't have it 'till 3 days from now...I guess...

I want to know where the lunkheads (who is running this world now anyway, air heads?) brought this train....

They wouldn't just drop them off in the middle of no where at Hunterspoint without a subway running would they?  Would the passengers get to sleep over at MOMA that was once Swingline Staplers.

A slight more sense would have dropped them off at the Queens Boulevard overpass and they could go up the emergency stairs to the structure above, already teaming with the humanity that was coming over the Queensborough Bridge. But these people were not trying to walk to homes in Queens or Nassau County  [don't smirk, one guy interviewed crossing the Brooklyn Bridge was trying to walk home to Bellerose...this is way out by the Cross Island Expressway, which is almost the border.] 

Best they should have brought them to Forest Hills or Kew Gardens, or at the least Woodside...

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