Making a split line with pen tool

I am making a map and have stumbled upon a new desire. Is it possible to make multiple paths from one anchor point using the pen tool? The most simple example I can give would be a "Y" - that is with the first point at the bottom, the second in the middle, then adding two separate lines from that middle anchor point in hopes that all three line segments would be a part of the same vector line.
The photo shows what I am working on. The grumbled grey area below the current railroad track is an old rail yard. The anchor point to the right of "Hill St." is where I would like to split/make multiple new lines from. Ideally, there would be a line that traces the northern edge of the rail yard (as is shown), in addition to one that traces the the southern edge that is technically the same vector line as both the northern line and the individual one to the east.
Any help or ideas on this would be greatly appreciated.
Doug

Take a look at this:
This was all done by Add New Stroke in the Appearance palette.
To get a clean Y you must make a compound of the 2 paths. You can see this clearly on the upper "road".
This works well for roads in general although multi-level intersections always require some special tratment.
A railway track is only slightly more tricky because of the sleepers.
Depending on how close together you want the sleepers to be, the join will always be more or less problematic unless you are very careful with the positioning of the anchor point on the branch line. Even then you will always get some overlapping.
But like Monika says, you should draw points/a switch (UK/US) there anyway.

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