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How does this work for say, the New York and Atlantic Railway which runs freight trains on the same tracks as the Long Island Rail Road? There are stations where a freight train passes through while a passenger train is behind it.


The LIRR is heavy rail rather than light rail.

I don’t know the regulations but that’s probably why.


You're correct. LIRR trains are built to a much heavier standard and thus are allowed on the same tracks as freight rail.


Does the locomotive weigh half a million pounds and have no passengers? Then it’s heavy rail.




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