Somewhere beneath New York City, a subway train on the express track catches up to a train on the local track.
Scenes were also filmed along a stretch of unused express track on the F line south of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, with netting in place between takes to keep the crew off live track just a few feet away.
Other systems, including New York's elevated lines that predated the subway, sometimes had a single, bi-directional express track that would reverse direction with the morning and evening commute.
He was struck by a southbound train that had been rerouted onto the express track because of a sick person at a nearby station, they said.
The accident caused transit officials to divert trains on the V line to the express track for an hour and 40 minutes.
One of the bodies was in a patch of snow near the express track, and the other was resting on the edge of the platform.
An older man, lightly dressed, a trifle elfin, bent slightly at the top in a shape tending toward a question mark, stands on the yellow edge of the uptown express track, reading.
Even with the New England and the Baltimore scores hidden from fans, everyone knew by the start of the third quarter that this was the end to a season that a month ago seemed to be on the express track through December.
It cannot tell an A train from a D. So she tells you about "the next Brooklyn-bound train on the express track" without saying whether it is going to Far Rockaway or Coney Island.
The worker, Christopher Bonaparte, 50, had been flagging local northbound trains at the Liberty Avenue subway station around 3 a.m. as a crew worked on the tracks, when he stepped over to the express track, the authorities said.
