Since the Fallen Flags are buried, I'm just wondering if there are any NY Central fans who have not discovered the forum? I am following the caboose whistle thread, with Mike Kmetz and LEW contribuiting. Pat, you used to contribute, as did Peirce and a few others. Just to try to raise some interest, here is a photo of NYC Hudson 5315 taken by Bob Schell, from the collection of Robert G. Spaugh, Sr.
Jim, I look in on this Forum every day. Unfortunately I have nothing to offer of historical significance, other than growing up on the Harlem Division, going into GCT daily when in college, and drooling while watching the goings-on at Harmon from the bluff overlooking the engine terminal. Oh yeh, and riding the 10:00 north out of Bedford Hills, through Chatham, then up to North Adams, MA on the B&A a couple of times in the early 50's....SIGH Your photo of that gorgeous "J" is reminiscent of the ex-B&A J-2's that ran the heavier trains on the Harlem out of North White Plains during the final days of steam...
Hank, I know I have mentioned it many times before, but that particular J-1e was the one destroyed in a wreck at my hometown, Little Falls, in 1940. Thanks for checking on the NYC daily. Maybe we could just start swapping memories of travelling on this once great railroad?
I keep assembling NYC photos and memorabilia, but it is getting harder and harder and those with real memories are fading from the scene. I have a number of photos from LEW that I need to get back to scanning (I've started LEW, honest), but they are mostly Big 4 areas. Oh well... Here is a pair of GP9s in 1963 at South Anderson that LEW will remember.
Russell, sure! Was that on the Orient Express? Roger, are you a member of the NYCSHS? I would love to get the chance to poke through their seemingly endless photo supply! The NYC "Headlight" is always full of great photos.
I never could afford to ride that Obs when it was in NYC livery...and I darn sure can't afford to ride it now that it's in Orient livery! However, that's great photo, Russ!!!
I forgot! I do have NYC photos.... many of the ex-CR cars (esp. coal cars) now have NYC reporting marks! Harold
Me either. However my Mom was watching a PBS special on the AOE Antibellum Tour through the South and decided she had to go take that. Being in her 80's she did not want to go alone. She had to twist my arm really hard to get me to drop everything and escort her. She decided to make my wife come along too. I forgave her.
Wouldn't it be great if we could all go back in time and ride the 20th Century Limited, in the Hickory Creek or Sandy Creek, of course/ and we would all have the income we have today back then. The only way we could afford to ride.
Yes I am and I wish that more photos were readily available where I could get to them. But the worst part is that I like the Big Four and there are even less available for that. Oh, well...
Was that on the Austin, TX Steam Train?? Unfortunately I was not able to ride it this past Saturday when I was visiting for work
Was that on the Austin, TX Steam Train?? </font>[/QUOTE]No, it was on the AOE. My Mom treated my wife and I to a "Land Cruise" aboard it from Washington, DC to New Orleans. If I wasn't sleeping in my birth or eating in the diner, I was in the observation car. They pulled the train backwards out of Vicksburg, Mississippi to Jackson where they were going to turn the train and put the engines back on the front. However due to delay they did not have time for that and ran all the way into New Orleans with the Sandy Creek butt up against the Amtrak engines. It was fun sitting up front with an almost forward view of where we were going. Also once on the Amtrak Cardinal my family and I rode on an Ex NYC Slumbercoach. When I was a kid we always rode that "other" railroad east out of Chicago. They claimed they were the"standard" railroad or something like that.
Michael R, glad to see you have discovered the fallen flags, especially the great competitors and finally disastrous partners, Pennsy and NYC. The shot Russell posted of the Sandy Creek, now New York, was taken on the American Orient Express. I see by your avatar that you are a LIRR fan. Have you seen the article in the latest TRAINS mag on the LI RR?
I model Northeastern including PRR & NYC in Z Scale. I am planning a railyard where the trains pass on different sidings in a Z scale modular layout. Of course I could claim my yard is modelled at the time right after the formation of Penn Central! As far as LIRR, it's what I've ridden most in my life and I love the PRR. I did NOT see Trains this month, I don't subscribe and haven't read it in years; I might however go grab a copy since it is about the LIRR.
Darren, neither can I. In news for NYCS fans and modelers, the latest Classic Trains mag has a good article on the recently restored 20th Century Limited Obs car "Hickory Creek," the twin to the "Sandy Creek," now New York that Russell rode. It was restored by a group in New Jersey and painted in 1948 20th Century Ltd. colors. Looks GREAT. For those of us born and raised in upstate NY, "creek" is pronounced "crick," so the Hickory Crick has an alliterative name. Personally, I spent the afternoon improving the way I have filed about 140 8X10 prints of NYCS equipment, which was getting damaged by my neanderthal file system. They now all reside in transparent slip covers in ring binders. Most purchased from Harold K. Vollrath, Bob Spaugh, Stan Kistler and others.
