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From: msb@sq.uucp (Mark Brader)
Date: Tue, 29-Nov-88 17:49:34 EST
Message-ID: <1988Nov29.174934.3845@sq.uucp>
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Phantom subway station?
References: <1636@maccs.McMaster.CA> <8811250104.AA16480@esplanade.csri.toronto.edu> <1988Nov25.233934.12136@sq.uucp> <1988Nov28.233025.22239@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
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> Just east of the
> Donlands station, the eastbound track dips and there is a fork to the right
> then rises to the greenwood yards.  West from Coxwell, the track
> will fork to the left over the eastbound track to create a second 'Y'
> interchange.  This track leads to the Greenwood yards.  What is possible
> is that there may be a rough-in for a station off that fork.

In fact, it's a complete second Y with double track on each side.
I didn't mention it in my own posting because that article was long enough
as it was, and it didn't relate to any phantom station that I knew of.

John Hofbauer (who posted the reference to Donlands) said that his source
was vague about what there actually was there, and he hadn't heard about
a phantom station there from anywhere else.

So another interpretation occurs to me.  Rather than there being a rough-in
for a station, perhaps the provision-for-a-connection referred to was
the Y itself, and somebody was contemplating through running from the
Danforth line to the proposed line.  But this is pure speculation.

By the way, if this topic hadn't about burned itself out by now, the
proper place for it would be rec.railroad, with a tor or ont distribution.
No need to swamp tor.general.  But I think we're about done, so I won't
redirect it.  If someone wants to start a new subthread, please do it in
the right place.