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NY to connect the High Line with Penn Station

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Posted by MidlandMike on Monday, February 1, 2021 7:28 PM

I conflateded those two PO's at Penn Station.

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Posted by nyc#25 on Monday, February 1, 2021 3:17 PM

There was no branch from the High Line to the Farley P.O.

There was a branch off the High Line into the P.O.'s Morgan Annex which was South of the Farley building and not even in line with it.

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Posted by Overmod on Monday, February 1, 2021 10:32 AM

MidlandMike
There was a branch of the Highline that went to the post office which is now part of Penn Station.

I thought that was the approach now used for the Empire Connection, with only incidental access to the Farley building via the 'lifts' from a couple of the yard tracks -- probably, in the 'pre-improved' state and possibly now requiring some switch moves to reach.  I was not aware of anything branching from the line by the mid-Forties that would access the Farley building from a direction that would support loading or unloading of mail train length consists oriented in that direction.

The project in question is a walkway straight from the elevated 'park' across to the Moynihan Train Hall, and isn't anything a train could follow either at its origin or destination... Wink

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Posted by timz on Monday, February 1, 2021 10:27 AM

The rails from the High Line branched to the Post Office (?) building on the south side of 31st St, not to anything that's been converted to part of NY Penn.

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Posted by MidlandMike on Sunday, January 31, 2021 10:15 PM

I think it was mentioned in a newswire story.  There was a branch of the Highline that went to the post office which is now part of Penn Station.

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NY to connect the High Line with Penn Station
Posted by York1 on Sunday, January 31, 2021 10:05 PM

This story is several weeks old, so it may have already been posted here.  I don't remember reading about it on the forum, so if someone else posted it already, sorry.

https://www.dezeen.com/2021/01/11/new-york-high-line-extension-penn-station/

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