Nothing Like the old New York Central RR

that's great Peter, thanks for sharing.

One note to the video....though I was excited to run the Central passenger consists.....Max was NOT impressed!

Peter

OLD...................

Here is a video of 2 of my favorite NYC O scale sets. Both are a must see/must have for any NYC fan. There are also some other great NYC videos on my channel.

Love that old P &LE boxcar !!

The New York Central is my other favorite right behind the Nickel Plate Road of course! Here are two of my latest NYC videos but I have more -

Adam.....love those engines and consists!

Peter

Thanks! I still have the new MTH Premier NYC Big Four Hudson on order. I plan to run that with my 4-car set of Lionel Heavyweight 20th Century Limited cars. The Niagara occasionally works freight and reefer trains too.

Putnam Division posted:

One note to the video....though I was excited to run the Central passenger consists.....Max was NOT impressed!

Peter

Anyone can easily see MAX is a well bread connoisseur of fine things, he is most likely waiting for the Broadway Limited to arrive. 

John P

Very cool Peter!

Brad

Great video Peter!

Here's the Old Put some years later around 1977.

Peter;

Wonderful video. Love the NYC as well and there is just something about a passenger train pulled by a steam engine. Sleek diesels are nice, but all of the movement on a steamer just draws you in. And I have a weak spot for older heavyweight cars over their shiny aluminum cousins. Now you make me want to dig out my Commodore Vanderbilt and the heavyweight cars for a few runs. Now if I can just find where I stored it!!!

As for Max... There is one in every crowd.

This was on You Tube.......always a highlight for me, Daddy What's a Train?......from TM's I Love Toy Trains number 3.....showcasing steam on the Central(along with some others).

Peter

Peter,

Oops, my mistake.  My FL9 video was on the Harlem Division, just leaving Katonah, not the Put!

NYC T motor:

Lionel Dreyfuss Hudson:

bigo426 posted:

A great book!

Peter

I am surprised the NYC did not go for the FL9.  They had to see the NH's going into GCT.  Passenger trains would not have to change locos at the end of the 3rd rail.

I'm a PRR fan, but FL9's in various NYC liveries would have been interesting.

For those who are students of the Putnam Division, in addition to the Gallo/Kramer book, I can also recommend:

Peter

When I was a small boy, five years old in 1950, we used to take the Brewster local on the Harlem division, from either 125th St. or Grand Central (we lived in upper Manhattan), to visit my uncles (mom's brothers) who lived in Thornwood and Pleasantville.  A couple things still stand out in my memory of those trips.

One, is that the electric motor, sometimes a big one when the train was long, from Grand Central was swapped out in North White Plains for a pretty thrashed looking Pacific.  I knew this to be true because I kept hoping to see a Hudson, like in the Lionel showroom, but alas, it usually was a grimed up 4-6-2.  Dad, knowing I was train crazy, used to take me off the train to observe the engine swap.  In later years the loco changed to an Alco RS and I lost interest.

The other is that, when we left from Grand Central the train annunciator would say over the crappy pa echoing through the terminal something like . . .  "Now leaving from track 97, the Brewster local.  Making station stops at . . . " completely unintelligble for about half a minute followed by  " . . . and Brewster!"

Pete

My father and my grandfather both worked for the NYC. My greatgranfather before them on my grandmothers side was an engineer.

Arastus Corning, mayor of Albany for 40 Years had an affection for Britaniy spaniels, as did I. My best friend bought a Britany from him who was a great gun dog. My friend namd him "rastus". Mayor Corning was the grandson of the founder.

Most of my layout celebrates the Central. It may have been the best railroad in the world. It is the best railroad in my basement!

Hard to get away from the NYC.

Fred

Lots of connections

Here are a couple of New York Central engines.

I was born in the Brooklyn Navy Hospital a week after 'D-Day' but after the War we moved to Miami and then to New Orleans. Sometimes I wish we had stayed in NYC as growing up there had many benefits that living elsewhere could not provide. In new Orleans, model trains were mostly a Christmas phenomena for a kid with no good public transportation.

To keep this brief, here is our Lionel NYC PA's and a pair of  Hudsons at a freight dock on our old layout

Here are a couple of New York Central engines.

Texas Pete, where did you live in upper Manhattan?

Eddie....just gorgeous!

Peter

The cover the the 8:20 has a picture with covered platform......with a PRR station sign!

Dominic Mazoch posted:

I am surprised the NYC did not go for the FL9.  They had to see the NH's going into GCT.  Passenger trains would not have to change locos at the end of the 3rd rail.

I'm a PRR fan, but FL9's in various NYC liveries would have been interesting.

 

Dominic,

 The New York Central did actually test FL9's during the New York Central years. There are photos of 2 units at North White Plains Yard taken during the testing.

 Ironic that after the Central ceased to exist that they had their "Ninth Life" on former New York Central trackage (Harlem & Hudson Divisions) under the MTA/Penn Central/Conrail/Metro-North (along with Amtrak in Empire Service running over the Hudson).

Tom

Putnam Division posted:

For those who are students of the Putnam Division, in addition to the Gallo/Kramer book, I can also recommend...

Peter, 

  Nice topic and you probably know this already. Joe Schiavone wrote a series of 4 (I believe) books on The Put, the first of which was "The Old Put." If you have the option of getting the accompanying video that originally came with the book, entitled "Walk the Put," I would highly recommend it. Filmed by my friend, Brian Vangor, Joe walks the length of The Put from Van Cortland Park to Brewster, stopping at station stops and other areas of interest along the way, talking about history and some stories. Warning: I appear on 4 of the Yonkers stops so do not view on a full stomach! 

   Tom 

eddie g posted:

Texas Pete, where did you live in upper Manhattan?

145th and Amsterdam until '52, then 161st street just West of Broadway.

Pete

MNCW posted:

Putnam Division posted:

For those who are students of the Putnam Division, in addition to the Gallo/Kramer book, I can also recommend...

Peter, 

  Nice topic and you probably know this already. Joe Sciavone wrote a series of 4 (I believe) books on The Put, the first of which was "The Old Put." If you have the option of getting the accompanying video that originally came with the book, entitled "Walk the Put," I would highly recommend it. Filmed by my friend, Brian Vangor, Joe walks the length of The Put from Van Cortland Park to Brewster, stopping at station stops and other areas of interest along the way, talking about history and some stories. Warning: I appear on 4 of the Yonkers stops so do not view on a full stomach! 

   Tom 

 

Oh yes, Tom, I forgot that I have them, too.......and they are an invaluable resource! 

Peter

My Lionel F3s are NY Central-does that make me an honorary member??

Peter, Great video and good thread to start. Look at all of the nice posts here!

I was laughing out loud each time Max appeared!!!! He is the coolest customer around. Does anything get his BP up?