Remembering CITICORP STATION during the holidays in NYC

Wow, been gone since 2008?  Time Flies. I was fortunate to see in both in 2006 and 2007 while working on a project at the Citicorp building.

WOW!!!  THANK YOU!

I lived at 26th & 6th for 25 years... just a few blocks from Madison Hardware.  Fond memories and the *AWE* of seeing that layout for many, many years.

dennis

Must have been one of the best kept secrets of Christmas in NY. I never new it was there.

I did stumble across his studio in upstate New York many years ago.

(my photo)

Ya Know... out of ALL the sections, I always was fascinated by the Weehawken Section.

Da MAn... Himself!

Skip thanks for sharing.  Posts like this make not having these great holiday displays this year more palatable.  Clarke's work is definitely unique, especially his backdrop work.

One year I was shopping at the Barnes and Noble store that used to be in the Citibank Building the week before Thanksgiving and I saw Barbara, Clarke and crew unloading and setting the display up. It was great to see how it went together. It was all modular and went together with self aligning Coffin locks.

I got to take my then very young son to see it the last year. They all knew it was the last year it would be there. A bittersweet experience.

The Dunhams used to have a whole group of their layouts open to the public in a town near their studio. One of the layouts they showed there was the former Citibank layout. They even had and showed the 4th scene that had originally been part of the layout a homage to the 1939 Worlds Fair. It was replaced with the final winter scene. The attraction was called "Railroads on Parade" and it was in the town of Pottersville, New York right off the I-87 exit. My family stopped a few times on our way into the Adirondacks. We all really enjoyed it but noted it was often empty of other visitors. The NYC Hudson painting that Bob @RSJB18 showed was originally displayed on top of the front of the attraction.

There is another Dunham layout on public display in the Adirondacks at the North Creek Station Museum. It is in HO scale and of the D&H in North Creek.

@Silver Lake posted:

One year I was shopping at the Barnes and Noble store that used to be in the Citibank Building the week before Thanksgiving and I saw Barbara, Clarke and crew unloading and setting the display up. It was great to see how it went together. It was all modular and went together with self aligning Coffin locks.

I got to take my then very young son to see it the last year. They all knew it was the last year it would be there. A bittersweet experience.

The Dunhams used to have a whole group of their layouts open to the public in a town near their studio. One of the layouts they showed there was the former Citibank layout. They even had and showed the 4th scene that had originally been part of the layout a homage to the 1939 Worlds Fair. It was replaced with the final winter scene. The attraction was called "Railroads on Parade" and it was in the town of Pottersville, New York right off the I-87 exit. My family stopped a few times on our way into the Adirondacks. We all really enjoyed it but noted it was often empty of other visitors. The NYC Hudson painting that Bob @RSJB18 showed was originally displayed on top of the front of the attraction.

There is another Dunham layout on public display in the Adirondacks at the North Creek Station Museum. It is in HO scale and of the D&H in North Creek.

Thanks for the added background info Andy. Next time we are up in Lake George we will need to go and see that Museum. The D&H is one of my faves. Love the paint scheme and all the Alco power they ran.

Bob

Thanks for the photos and memories.  Clarke, his wife (sorry, name won't enter memory) and their team have made a big difference in the hobby the last 20 + years.  I gather they are now retired from the layout construction business and the Broadway set design business (now on hiatus in any case)?