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VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Dec 29 10:10:42 2024 Cool old school view of the NEC, found on Facebook:https://archive.org/details/test2_202112 |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Charles G on Sun Dec 29 14:08:34 2024, in response to VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Dec 29 10:10:42 2024. Great find. Thanks for sharing! Much has stayed the same, but much has changed for sure. I only watched from Penn to Stamford so far -- a few things I found interesting...It looks like only a single track was in use for all or part of the run from the Hell Gate to Shell Interlocking. That will soon be four tracks if I'm remembering correctly. The New Rochelle toll booths still in existence. Although the train does not stop, at this date Rye is the Amtrak station for Westchester county and New Rochelle is only a Metro North station. Four and six car trains on the New Haven Line. Two-car New Canaan shuttle! The Stamford skyline has completely changed. First Stamford Place, one of the earliest major complexes in the downtown area is under construction just to the left approaching Stamford station. The new Stamford station is under construction as well, with the old station still in use. This is the first I've seen of Stamford before the current station was in place and in use. Platform and track configuration is completely changed. Thanks again! |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Dec 30 23:55:04 2024, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Charles G on Sun Dec 29 14:08:34 2024. It looks like only a single track was in use for all or part of the run from the Hell Gate to Shell Interlocking. That will soon be four tracks if I'm remembering correctlySoon? It's getting built? Where did the money come from? I don't recall either the MTA or Amtrak or any private operator putting up the cash. |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Dec 31 02:54:10 2024, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Charles G on Sun Dec 29 14:08:34 2024. I was trying to see if the switches to the tracks of the NYW&B were visible |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Dec 31 14:27:41 2024, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Dec 30 23:55:04 2024. IIRC that single track is a dedicated CSX track for Long Island to/from freights |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Tue Dec 31 14:35:48 2024, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Dec 31 02:54:10 2024. I looked for them too and did not see them. |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Dec 31 14:50:17 2024, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Charles G on Sun Dec 29 14:08:34 2024. That will soon be four tracks if I'm remembering correctly.I think the bridge over the Hutchinson River and other places will remain 2 tracks. But there will be 4 tracks where the new stations are being built. |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Dec 31 14:55:11 2024, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Dec 31 02:54:10 2024. Weren't the parallel NYW&B tracks and the connections pretty much wiped out by the construction of the New England Thruway? |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Dec 31 15:07:06 2024, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by AlM on Tue Dec 31 14:55:11 2024. I'd say more like the construction of the Brunker expressway did more to wipe out any connections. I wonder if the Hunts Pt Ave NYW&B sta building is still there?. When I worked at Oak Pt. decades ago, I believe it housed a topless joint. |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Charles G on Tue Dec 31 15:27:07 2024, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Dec 31 15:07:06 2024. Heh, "believe" |
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Posted by AlM on Tue Dec 31 17:11:25 2024, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Dec 31 15:07:06 2024. OK, I was thinking about the connection in Larchmont, not the one in the South Bronx. |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jan 4 13:24:02 2025, in response to VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Dec 29 10:10:42 2024. Almost amusing that people still think Metro-North is going to jam trains onto that bottleneck into NYP. |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Jan 4 15:19:00 2025, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jan 4 13:24:02 2025. I think it can be handled. |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jan 4 18:19:41 2025, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat Jan 4 15:19:00 2025. Oh sure, once they put up the money and somehow get LIRR to surrender tunnel slots, because the East River tunnels have been completely restored . . . oh wait . . . |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Q4 on Sat Jan 4 22:42:07 2025, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jan 4 18:19:41 2025. Money has been put up for the Metro-North’s Penn Access, construction is underway and the LIRR will give up the slots. Amtrak’s East River Tunnels restoration, well that’s another story as to when that will ever happen. |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jan 5 00:41:59 2025, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Q4 on Sat Jan 4 22:42:07 2025. Not it has not, no they will not, and I agree. |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by ro_jo on Sun Jan 5 23:25:21 2025, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Dec 31 15:07:06 2024. Yes, the station buildings at Hunts Point and Westchester Av are both still there. Both have fallen into disrepair, though the Hunts Point building somewhat less so - it is currently being repurposed as a events venue called Bronxlandia. For a long time prior to that it was largely rented as storage space.The Westchester Av station is mostly crumbling as far as I can tell. |
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Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985 |
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Posted by Q4 on Mon Jan 6 02:19:59 2025, in response to Re: VIDEO: Amtrak cab view Penn Station to New Haven, 1985, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Jan 5 00:41:59 2025. The Design/Build contact was awarded, construction work has definitely begun including on several bridges along the route and one interlocking.The LIRR will give up the slots whether they want to or not because their parent will tell them to. This will be accomplished by moving some trains they had moved from Grand Central Madison to Penn back to Grand Central Madison. |
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