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| Title: |
Penn Station 1941 |
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This was taken by my grandfather, Frank Beckett, some time in the 1940-41 period. I came across an envelope marked Penn Station 1941 containing these photos. My grandparents lived in Manhasset NY starting in 1940, so he would have been riding the Port Wasington train by then. |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/1941 Upload Date: 8/13/2014 3:25:29 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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| Title: |
A look toward the ticket window |
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Its not direct, but in the lower part of the frame you can see the "parlor car tickets" sign. This is in the area where the LIRR trains came in, so Im assuming its a Long Island sign, since they had a healthy parlor business over the years. |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/1941 Upload Date: 8/13/2014 3:31:26 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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301 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Track 15 |
| Description: |
A view of the LIRR section of Penn Station |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/1941 Upload Date: 8/13/2014 3:33:20 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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244 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Concourse |
| Description: |
A photo of the passenger concourse |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/1941 Upload Date: 8/13/2014 3:37:24 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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260 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Tearing it down |
| Description: |
The demolition of Penn Station was well underway when dad caught this shaft of light through one of the windows. This was the greatest act of vandalism of the 20th century, and fostered the historical preservation movement that saved, among other places, Grand Central Terminal. |
| Photo Date: |
9/8/1964 Upload Date: 12/4/2014 3:30:18 PM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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254 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Light from on high |
| Description: |
A ray of sun barely illuminates a workman in the interior of Penn Station during its demolition. |
| Photo Date: |
12/18/1964 Upload Date: 4/24/2016 4:01:58 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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80 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Bright spot on a dim future |
| Description: |
A thin shaft of light comes through a high window, dimly lighting some of the stunning architecture of Penn Station, which, sadly, has a dim future. |
| Photo Date: |
12/18/1964 Upload Date: 4/24/2016 4:33:35 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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145 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Concourse |
| Description: |
A fair amount of the structure is still in place as work goes on to demolish the station. It wont be long til all this steel work is a memory, along with the concourse. |
| Photo Date: |
8/16/1965 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:50:20 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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184 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Taxi stand |
| Description: |
This is the former taxi tunnel, its driveway now occupied by a crane. |
| Photo Date: |
8/16/1965 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 5:06:29 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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98 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
LIRR concourse |
| Description: |
The demolition of Penn Station was continuing when dad grabbed this shot of waiting passengers. Theres still light from above on the LIRR level. It wont be too long before this is just a glorified subway station. The date is a guess, but when was the last time you saw men in hats, and anyone reading Look magazine?? |
| Photo Date: |
10/14/1965 Upload Date: 5/4/2016 3:06:38 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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120 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Setting it in place |
| Description: |
A steel worker guides a beam for the new Penn Plaza office complex into place as the desecration of Penn Station continues. |
| Photo Date: |
10/14/1965 Upload Date: 5/4/2016 3:00:39 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station |
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117 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hanging the steel |
| Description: |
A steelworker prepares to set this beam that the crane holds high above the new Penn Plaza building. |
| Photo Date: |
10/14/1965 Upload Date: 5/4/2016 3:02:57 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station |
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87 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The future |
| Description: |
A close up shot of the underground work that will become part of Penn Plaza. Theres a lot of scaffolding up in this November 1965 view. |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/1965 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:29:41 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station |
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103 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Open pit |
| Description: |
The construction of the Penn Plaza building is underway, starting with the new Penn Station, whose work is seen below grade here. What was once an architectural wonder will now be an office building with a glorified subway station underneath. |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/1965 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:36:09 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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118 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Holding it all up |
| Description: |
Scaffolding holds up the various underground levels of Penn Station as construction moves forward on the new building. |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/1965 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:40:45 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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94 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Side entrance |
| Description: |
A look down the 33rd St entrance to the station, now a shadow of its former glory. |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/1965 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:47:03 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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97 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Lots of change |
| Description: |
Three months after the August photos, this is the scene. Planking is now the floor, and there is new steel work going up even as the old is coming down. |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/1965 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:53:51 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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92 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Up with the new |
| Description: |
A welder works on new steelwork for the Penn Plaza building, working around the old pillars of the old station. |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/1965 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:58:20 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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71 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Main entrance |
| Description: |
The entrance at 7th Av and 32nd St is now but a shell of itself as the demolition continues. Compare with the shot of the entrance taken in the 70s elsewhere in this album. |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/1965 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 5:02:11 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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123 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sparks in the dark |
| Description: |
A welder works on a floor beam as the new Penn Plaza goes together in the dark corners of the old station. |
| Photo Date: |
11/19/1965 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 5:10:01 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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67 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Covering it over |
| Description: |
The work on the lower levels of the new Penn Station is ongoing, as the floor is built for the new concourse that will accommodate LIRR riders. |
| Photo Date: |
2/11/1966 Upload Date: 5/4/2016 3:09:44 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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132 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
New Garden |
| Description: |
The new Madison Square Garden takes shape on the 8th Av end of the Penn Station complex. It will replace the then existing Garden at 8th Av and 50th St. Penn Station, of course, is irreplaceable. |
| Photo Date: |
8/10/1966 Upload Date: 4/24/2016 3:54:38 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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104 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Implements of destruction |
| Description: |
A crane sits, ready to take down old framework and put up new steel at Penn Station. |
| Photo Date: |
8/10/1966 Upload Date: 4/24/2016 3:59:54 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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83 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Lone rider |
| Description: |
A single rider waits on the platform as an MU train in the Worlds Fair scheme hold til time. |
| Photo Date: |
8/18/1966 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 4:20:08 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger,Action |
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100 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Head for the light |
| Description: |
There was a block long open space west of Penn Station, where for a brief moment, trains headed for the Hudson River came out in the open before heading into the tunnel. Dad was looking from one of the PC platforms-LIRR used only 9 tracks, usually 13-21, PC and Amtrak used from track 1 to 16-toward daylight west of 9th Av, the sunlight highlighting the ladder track to the platforms. The red lights are signals, referred to as "hangers," since they hang from the roof. If youve ever ridden the LIRR and heard the engineer call the conductor on the PA and report "restricting on the hanger," this is what he is referring to. |
| Photo Date: |
1/13/1974 Upload Date: 2/23/2016 4:45:21 AM |
| Location: |
New York, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Tunnel,Station,Signal,Passenger |
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205 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Train time |
| Description: |
Rush hour at Penn Station in the 70s was sometimes a free for all, especially if trains were delayed, which was common. The platforms were open, and commuters knew what track their train typically ran from. Thus, they would head down to track level early, and sometimes riders for several trains would be on the platform at the same time. Looks like this was one of those days. |
| Photo Date: |
1/18/1974 Upload Date: 2/23/2016 4:40:06 AM |
| Location: |
New York, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Tunnel,Station,Passenger |
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210 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Penn Station eagle |
| Description: |
The original Penn Station had over 20 of these stone eagles on the building. When the station was demolished in the mid 60s, some wound up dumped in the Jersey meadows, but others were saved and displayed. This one is outside a Chemical Bank branch in Manhattan. |
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9/14/1975 Upload Date: 3/25/2016 4:38:22 AM |
| Location: |
Manhattan, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station |
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| Title: |
Grand entrance |
| Description: |
Hard to tell any more. This glorified subway entrance is now the main access to the underground Penn Station. Penn Plaza is above, the building put up on air rights over the tracks, that caused all the outcry almost 20 years earlier. Not all that grand, eh?? |
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3/16/1981 Upload Date: 3/18/2016 5:35:15 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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151 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Front end |
| Description: |
NJ Transit 4877 was in Penn Station one night while dad was coming into town, and he took a few shots, including this one of the front of the engine. |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1981 Upload Date: 12/4/2014 3:24:49 PM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Tunnel,Station,Passenger |
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PRR 4877(GG1) |
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408 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Whats that across the platforms?? |
| Description: |
Dad was in Penn Station one night and saw the newly restored PRR 4877. He grabbed this from over on the Long Island side of the station> |
| Photo Date: |
6/22/1981 Upload Date: 12/4/2014 3:27:45 PM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Tunnel,Station |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 4877(GG1) |
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452 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Late night in Penn Station |
| Description: |
When dad lived on W 34th St, hed often go out to see my grandmother on the LIRR, coming home failrly late. One night he spotted this Amtrak unit across the platforms and grabbed a shot. |
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2/10/1985 Upload Date: 11/20/2014 3:57:28 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
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AMTK 905(AEM7) |
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333 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Switched up |
| Description: |
Dad sometimes shot a photo of the trackage that was visible west of the Post Office where there was a 1/2 block of daylight into the Penn Station complex where it narrowed down to enter the North River tubes. This is what it looked like late in the afternoon. |
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9/8/1985 Upload Date: 12/4/2014 3:33:36 PM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Track |
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132 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Two floors down |
| Description: |
Dad lived on 34th St west of 9th Av, and often walked past the "hole" where you could see the west throat of Penn Station. Sometimes hed get a photo. Today was one of those days, as an Amtrak E 60 was poking its nose into the sun. |
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5/3/1992 Upload Date: 3/25/2016 3:32:01 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
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AMTK 600(E60) |
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318 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
New 30th St |
| Description: |
The 30th St yard was formerly a NYC facility, built to serve the trains that worked the West Side Line, now the High Line Park. A connection was built from Penn Station to the yard, and it is now used to store LIRR equipment, saving a round trip to the Island to lay up for the day. Dad caught a train rolling out among all the slumbering M 1s. |
| Photo Date: |
5/3/1992 Upload Date: 3/25/2016 4:15:04 AM |
| Location: |
Manhattan, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
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94 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Out in the open |
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Dad often shot photos from 33rd St west of the post office, where the tracks saw a block of daylight before going back underground. This day, he caught what looks like a Florida train heading out behind a pair of AEM 7s, with another corridor train behind one in the distance. |
| Photo Date: |
10/17/1992 Upload Date: 5/13/2016 4:21:02 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 910(AEM7) AMTK 932(AEM7) AMTK 913(AEM7) |
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392 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Cammerer yard |
| Description: |
Storage at Penn Station has always been limited, due to the lack of space in the area around it. The Pennsy built it as a run through station, with trains going on to Sunnyside yard to be turned and serviced. The problem for the LIRR was that this was the end of the line. Since there was no storage capacity, trains ran back out to the Island after morning rush, only to deadhead back to Penn for their afternoon runs. The advent of Conrail and Amtrak, as well as a decline in rail freight in the city caused a number of changes over the years. One of them was the availability of the ex NYC 30th St yard for other uses. The MTA took advantage of the situation to build a layup yard for the LIRR on the site, known as the John Cammerer yard, in honor of a state senator from Long Island. This is how it looks from the street, full of LIRR MUs in the middle of the day. The facility saves the LIRR several million dollars each year by avoiding the need to run trains as much as 100 extra miles each day in deadhead moves. |
| Photo Date: |
10/6/1997 Upload Date: 2/13/2016 3:58:21 AM |
| Location: |
Manhattan, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Yard,Passenger |
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222 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Getting started |
| Description: |
An AEM 7 pokes its nose out from under 9th Av as it rolls through the short stretch of daylight between 9th Av and the North River tunnel entrance with a DC bound train. Dad lived on 34th St off 9th Av, and passed here often. Sometimes hed grab a shot. |
| Photo Date: |
10/10/1998 Upload Date: 2/13/2016 2:33:13 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 917(AEM7) AMTK 937(AEM7) NJT 1366(Arrow III MU) |
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469 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coming in |
| Description: |
An eastbound Amtrak train arrives from Washington, passing through the open air segment between 9th Av and the tunnel as it approaches the platforms. |
| Photo Date: |
10/10/1998 Upload Date: 2/13/2016 2:37:57 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 938(AEM7) AMTK 937(AEM7) |
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424 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Jersey Arrow |
| Description: |
An NJ Transit Jersey Arrow sits across on the south side of Penn Station, waiting for its next trip to Trenton-or Matawan. |
| Photo Date: |
10/10/1998 Upload Date: 2/13/2016 3:05:01 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
NJT 1366(Arrow III MU) |
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186 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Daylight |
| Description: |
There was a short stretch of daylight between the station tracks and the end of the North River tubes, roughly between 9th and 10th Avenues. It provded a small glimpse into the underground life of the city. Dad lived just off 9th Av on 34th St, and came by here often. He liked the image of the complicated track pattern-of necessity due to the need to get 21 station tracks into two tracks for the tunnels. |
| Photo Date: |
10/10/1998 Upload Date: 2/13/2016 3:10:17 AM |
| Location: |
Penn Station, NYC, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Track |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 937(AEM7) |
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221 Comments: 1 |
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