Like what kind of passenger amenitys did they have? Was there a degisnated track and waiting room? Was there a seperate tickit counter so on and so forth.
I rode the Lake Shore Limited from Chicago to New York’s Grand Central Station in January 1991. I believe the change to Penn Station was made later that same year. I was glad I had the chance to ride into and out of Grand Central. There was a separate ticket counter for Amtrak. I don’t remember any separate lounges or designated tracks, but Grand Central had (and still has) many amenities available to all comers. A favorite movie that features several interesting scenes inside Grand Central – and on the boarding platform for the 20th Century Limited – is Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/02/nyregion/from-journey-s-end-to-a-commuter-stop.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/08/nyregion/riding-the-past-from-grand-central.html
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These are three wonderful examples of writing about railroads and train travel. E.M. Frimbo and The New Yorker made reading about train travel nearly as satisfying as riding. Here we have three examples from The New York Times to show this art lived on, at least until 1991.
As a patron of the Lake Shore Limited I detest the loss of GCT as my entry point into Manhattan, but I have to admit I’ve enjoyed the convenience as I come and go from points south or northeast.
Before the change to NYP there was nothing particularly welcoming to Amtrak customers at GCT. A counter dedicated to Amtrak tickets was abou
Amtrak had a couple of ticket windows and generally used two track upstairs (41 and 42 maybe?) I usually waited by the gate and sat on my suitcase. The waiting room was not alway a great place to wait…
Does Amtrak still serve Grand Central Station?
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To answer your question, Amtrak does not serve Grand Central Terminal.
Grand Central Station is the adjacent post office.
I thought the Empire service was going to use GCT during the Penn Station track work, but I don’t see any notice in the ATK schedule. To do so the dual modes would have to modify their 3rd rail shoe, or borrow MetroNorth locos.
The Journal News expects GCT to get 6 Amtrak trains a day, 3 in each direction.
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/transit/2017/05/18/amtrak-grand-central/328515001/
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/transit/2017/06/12/amtrak-grand-central-terminal/389719001/
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Does Amtrak still serve Grand Central Station?
To answer your question, Amtrak does not serve Grand Central Terminal.
Grand Central Station is the adjacent post office.
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Ask a native Manhattan dweller about nowadays, but my mother was one for her first 23 years. She always called it Grand Central Station, same as the radio series
Ask a native Manhattan dweller about nowadays, but my mother was one for her first 23 years. She always called it Grand Central Station, same as the radio series
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I lived and worked in New York City for eight years. My wife was a native New Yorker. Most of the people that I knew, including my wife, referred to it as Grand Central Station, but technically they were wrong. It is Grand Central Terminal, as was noted above. Believe me I was not going to get into an argument with my wife about the correct name for Grand Central…
Most of the people that I associated with in New York did not care what it was called.
I think most New Yorkers simply call it “Grand Central.” Notice no one ever seems to call the other place “Penn.” It’s not often called “Pennsylvania Station,” either. It’s “Penn Station,” as in “…and lead us not into Penn Station, but deliver us from evil…”
The only time I’ve ever heard it referred to as Pennsylvania Station was in “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” by Glenn Miller.
Amtrak is returning to Grand Central this summer as part of a temp reroute…while Penn Central is getting fixed.
Did the NYC serve Grand Central Station?
Yes, they also built it and its predecessors…
I’m not positive about this, but if I remember correctly Amtrak’s P32 dual mode locomotives were built with third rail shoes that can be set for either overrunning(into Penn Station like LIRR) or underrunning(into Grand Central on ex NYC). I also could not say if Amtrak maintained this feature either.
On reflection I forgot about one other issue that will force Amtrak to use MetroNorth power into Grand Central. There is a requirement for locomotive crews to have an exit thru the nose as there are man places in the tunnel into Grand Central were there is insufficient room for crew to use cab side doors to exit a locomotive.