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Originally Posted by eldondre
for one reason or another, the outer/inner tracks are not express/local as you indicate although I'm sure all parties involved wish it were. perhaps this is the reason why a zoo stop never happened.
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If by "not express/local" you mean Amtrak trains use those tracks too, yes, I understand that, but nonetheless, local trains stop at places Amtrak trains do not, and those places have platforms that allow access to the outer tracks only.
There appears to be no need anywhere else on the NEC from New York to Philly to add another set of tracks for those local stops, so I don't see why they'd be necessary for a Zoo stop, unless the location of the station just before/beyond notoriously complex Zoo Interlocking would mean that trains stopping there could produce routing nightmares back up the line.
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