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Re: (erielack) OT: Cities of the Underworld- NY



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Mike asks

>Recently watched the New York City episode of the History Channel series
>Cities of the Underworld.  Kind of OT but definitely railfan and rail

Given the huge amount of misinformation and outright falsehoods in the program, there's probably a secret tunnel with a secret track running between the Penn Station and GCT <g>. We'll wait for Part II to hear about that.

MN has taken tour groups down to the power station many times -- most recently for the 100th anniversary of electrification -- but the SIA and others have been down there as well. They did not show where the LIRR station will be -- because even the entrance won't be where there are current tracks. The speculation on MNCX and Waldorf Station was all hooey as well -- there have actually been fan trips that went to the W-A platform!

>tunnels in the Meadowlands.  However the connection from NJ to GCT seems a
>lot less obvious.  Was there some kind of routing via the CNJ or B&O through
>Staten Island and somehow circuitously through Brooklyn and Queens, over
>Hell Gate or Spuyten Duyvil then south on the NY Central through Manhattan?

But the DC-GCT trips went via NYP and Hell Gate to New Rochelle Jct or in a few cases, via Port Morris. Ditto to Hyde Park, except when via the L&HR to visit his girlfriend.

Cheers,
Jim

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