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Happy Anniversary, GCT!

Re: Happy Anniversary, GCT!

FreshFish said:
Today is the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the opening of Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

Not sure how many have been through it, it certainly is a busy place with some phenomenal architecture.

http://live.wsj.com/video/grand-cen...8A.html#!317F8F0D-FEAA-4FCD-A213-DFD9102B058A

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/years_of_grand_central_UDsPx4VPTSo3LXZzQC6OGL
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Used to work in the Greybar Building (420 Lex - Suite 2750) many moons ago and would walk through Grand Central to get to the entrance. Also, 2 summer camp trains left from there on the way to Boston (bus to NH - pre interstate in 65/66). Back then it was a bit dingy.
 
Re: Happy Anniversary, GCT!

joecct said:
Used to work in the Greybar Building (420 Lex - Suite 2750) many moons ago and would walk through Grand Central to get to the entrance. Also, 2 summer camp trains left from there on the way to Boston (bus to NH - pre interstate in 65/66). Back then it was a bit dingy.
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Back in 1958, I also went to summer camp, somewhere near Worcester, MA, from there.

I went to RPI from there as an undergrad several times.
 
Re: Happy Anniversary, GCT!

Ralph and JoeCCT, are you sure you are not thinking about Penn Station for those trains to Boston or Troy? or maybe they have just changed which trains go where now, perhaps?

Amtrak doesn't go into or out of GCT these days, hasn't for years.


I ride into it several days a week, though for the past two years I've only used the Northwest Passage and haven't been in the Grand Concourse until recently. We took the family to a play for a Christmas present and spent a few minutes there. Brought our own sandwiches and salad and juice to eat in the Food Court, then looked at the constellations of the Zodiac embedded around the ceiling. Didn't stay for the laser light show though.

Another time I was lucky enough to be taken to dinner at Michael Jordan's (on their tab :) )
 
Re: Happy Anniversary, GCT!

FF

Nope - for years, The NY Central Railroad used Grand Central Terminal as the starting point for trains up to NE and to Chicago (the water route -- 20th Century Limited). Even after Amtrak took over the PennCentral, the Adirondack left GCT for Montreal. I can remember hearing the boarding calls for it as Dad and I strode through GCT going to work. The other train to Montreal (the Vermonter???) left from Penn Station. And we can't forget the New Haven Railroad, either -- the commuter rail of choice for all those folks coming in from the Nutmeg State.

In 1991 Grand Central went to a all commuter rail station that is served only by Metro North. If you look @ the tracks and switching, somewhere around New Rochelle, you take either the tracks that head down the Bronx River Parkway to GCT or go around and down Hell Gate and into Queens to go to Penn Station. If you're going North (and thence to Buffalo and points West), you come out of Penn Station, head up under Riverside Drive and hook up with the old Grand Central Tracks just a bit north of Spuyten Duyvil.
 
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