Jon. The viaduct is the portion of park avenue that is elevated and runs around GCT. There is no park ave at ground level there
The Park Avenue Viaduct is a roadway in the Manhattanborough of New York City that carries Park Avenue from East 40th to 46th Streets around Grand Central Terminal and the MetLife Building then through the Helmsley Building; all three buildings lie across the line of the avenue.
Jon. The viaduct is the portion of park avenue that is elevated and runs around GCT. There is no park ave at ground level there
The Park Avenue Viaduct is a roadway in the Manhattanborough of New York City that carries Park Avenue from East 40th to 46th Streets around Grand Central Terminal and the MetLife Building then through the Helmsley Building; all three buildings lie across the line of the avenue.
Ahhh, I get it. Thanks Forrest.
Park Avenue does extend northwards from the station, as does the built in 1855 Park Avenue Stone Viaduct , as well as the steel viaduct built upon the old Harlem Cut to raise the track level to the new Harlem River Bridge in the 1885.
The cut directly from the station was covered in the late 1880's as well.
http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beach/chapter13.html
OK. I stand corrected. Dunno what I was thinking.... I like the base project even more now.
Very jealous that I don't have the right layout to install something like that.
As an ex NYC Manhattan cab driver and frequent city visitor, the Trainworxx Grand Central base is very accurate and amazingly detailed. I saw it at York and Roger showed me the laser cut detail. Fantastic ! If I ever acquire a Grand Central Terminal, I would buy this base in a flash !
I absolutely agree!
This base makes this already wonderful structure very attractive for an O gauge layout. Beautiful addition to the GCT.
So is TW going to make a base for their smaller Lionel version of Grand Central Terminal? I gather this was a custom one-off.
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