Who is Going? Grand Central Terminal Saturday May 11

Pix please!

Hey Scrapiron,

 

Cannot be there, would you please take some pictures of it. Sounds like loads and loads of fun! Darn, there I go again being jealous! Wish to heck that I could get out of this commitment supposed to go to a 90th birthday party - my mother-in-laws! Go right ahead guys laugh at my expense. I am henpecked I know!

 

Mike Maurice

Scrappy 

I made my one and only pilgrimage to GCT last Dec. and I must admit it is a spectacular place to see.  So I will be volunteering with the Rocky Mount Railroad Museum, assisting with their National Train Day events at the Amtrak station in Rocky Mount, NC.  If anyone passes through on Saturday stick you head out while you'er waiting for passengers to board and say HI.

Sounds good.  Take lots of pix.  Ima gonna give train day DC one last chance.  They are giving Acela rides for 5 bucks at Union Station.

     I'm hoping to make it down with Maya, Eliot. Work may intervene..but fingers crossed.  Here's a little preview to whet your whistles.

     I posted these in the subway section yesterday...saw these sitting in the Stamford yard awaiting this weekends festivities at Grand Central Terminal. Unfortunately the skies opened up on me, but managed a couple quick shots...

I will be there. Two of my friends might be there selling. Ron's Books of Harrison, NY was asked by Metro-North to take a booth but Ron was concerned about where to park. Bob Bang may also be there selling his books and other things.

Make sure you visit Dover Harbor, the 1923 6 DBR-Pullman  Buffet lounge.  Here's the real thing and the O-gauge (not to scale) version.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm hoping to be there it depends on who in family and friends wants to go as I hate to drive in the city and I'm not too sure of the train schedule.

Sunday for me. Maybe a little Mothers day celebration with a round trip to Stamford in the afternoon after visiting the cars and GCT . Definitely LIRR on the way to and from GCT

I am thinking of making it there on Sat.  It should be great seeing all those historic trains in one place.

Metro-North for me.

We will roll in at 8:40.

We'll try to be at the Kiosk at noon.

 

Scrapiron, in the public toilet on Dover Harbor, there is still the sign:  "Please do not flush toilets when train is standing in or passing through stations..."  Dover Harbor now has retention toilets, of course, but that bit of history is preserved.

I'll be there.

I will be there.  I plan on taking the 11am tour of GCT.  It should be over by 12pm.  Below is the link to the pamphlet for the event.

 

http://anakin.mallfinder.com/i...e/pdf/2013/Train.pdf

 

Sorry Scrapiron, my wife read about it on line and asked me if I wonted to go but I already made made plans for the Phila area lunch.

 

Have fun and as stated above take some pictures.

We're on our way downtown to GCT. Photos to follow.

I just read that the vintage subway cars will be running on the Times Square shuttle today.

On my way in to GCT...but crammed schedule so gonna try an get in an out quick. So much to do this weekend. A lot of work and two Mothers Day celebrations. Tough weekend for trains. :-/

I was at the clock / kiosk from 12-12:20.  Was that the wrong place

Seriously disappointed. Got there at 11. The line was a 4 hour wait. Got on line anyway. A few minutes later some staff and the police broke the line about 20 people in front of us and told everyone the line was closed and that we would not see the exhibit. Lots of very angry people. Shopping and dinner in the city instead. Won't be doing this again.

I won my kids a trainset by knowing what Epcot stood for.

Was the least I could do after 3 eight and under kids and my 3 hour wait to see the cars. The wait in parked powered ac equipped m7 trains. I've never seen that before.

Wow what a show. Vintage passenger trains in the grandest setting imaginable. Glad we got there early. The lines were incredible if you got there too late.

 

Cool stuff.  Love the interior of that car!

I was surprised to see the Metro North RS3 605. At first I thought it was just an interesting old Alco still in limited service then I looked at the top. It was actually a RS3M. A Dewitt Geep repowered with an EMD engine from an E Unit as turned out by the Dewitt shops under Penn Central. I didn't realize any had been preserved.

I'm actually working on a conversion of a Lionel RS3 right now it's on my workbench. I got a few good pics.

Looks like you guys had a great day of trains also, see Philly area breakfast / lunch . The station looks beautiful as always, but I bet the line was a lot shorter at Eric's house.