On 07.08.15 17:26, Joseph D. Korman wrote:   
   > On 8/1/2015 10:54 PM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
   >> I went to Battery Park today. As the 1 waited (and waited and waited)   
   >> to enter   
   >> the station, a 5 was turning around on the other track -- going in the   
   >> same   
   >> direction (and signed "Last Stop"). It seemed terribly wrong -- but of   
   >> course   
   >> it makes sense that it used that loop in the same direction as the   
   >> City Hall   
   >> loop for turning from downtown to uptown.   
   >>   
   >> Was it used counterclockwise when it was a station?   
   >>   
   >   
   > The inner loop is connected to the stub track at BG, with a switch from   
   > the Brooklyn bound track, then a switch to the outer loop, then a switch   
   > from the outer loop, and it ends in a switch to the Bronx bound track at   
   > BG.  There is no direct way for the shuttle to get back to the stub   
   > track from the Bronx bound track.   
   >   
   > There was a period of time (~mid-1960s) when the #5 trains in the   
   > evenings and #6 over night that switched to the outer loop, stopped at   
   > SF and then switched back to the inner loop to return to BG.   
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   Are there any photos or videos of the Bowling Grenn-South Ferry shuttle?   
      
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