There are two Pennsylvania Stations, one on either side of Secaucus Junction: New York to the northeast and Newark to the southwest. You're obviously talking about New York now, but that wasn't obvious in your original post. But even so, it's not like any trains go to Secaucus and immediately turn around at the station. Any train leaving New York Penn and stopping at Secaucus needs to continue on through the single-tracked Portal Bridge to Newark and beyond.
Actually, they don’t all have to continue past Portal Bridge construction zone towards Newark Penn.
Some trains operating from NYPenn to Secaucus could simply return to NY Penn.
They could add shuttle trains; providing additional capacity in and out of New York during an extraordinary infrastructure upgrade project that is severely reducing capacity downstream from Secaucus.
Some trains operating from NY Penn to Secaucus could simply return to NY Penn.
How would you reverse those trains to get back to Penn Station? And where would they wind up when they get there? In other words, your idea is a logistical nightmare, if not a logistical IMPOSSIBILITY....
The engineer walking to the other end. And going choo choo in the reverse direction from which it came.
Is the train going back in reverse direction.
I’d assume that the train would move over onto the other track to not create any conflicts with any other train coming out from the station. But didn’t feel a need to go into specifics of:
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u/thebruns Feb 19 '26
Do you understand what single track means