Re: (rshsdepot) A "Proud day on the private siding of the Waldorf"

["Paul S. Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

It wasn't any of us that said "Private Siding at the Waldorf" this time, it
was a full page ad in the NY Times on 9/24/1946 by the American Locomotive
Company
Paul
- -----Original Message-----
From: David S. Rose <lists_@_rosegremse.com>
To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net <rshsdepot@lists.railfan.net>
Date: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:21 PM
Subject: RE: (rshsdepot) A "Proud day on the private siding of the Waldorf"


>Actually, the Waldorf never really had a "private siding". Instead, the
>track that people keep referring to was really an extension of the siding
>used by the post office's Grand Central mail facility a block to the south.
>I don't believe the siding was ever in common use, nor available to even
the
>rich and famous. I think it was only used a few times, primarily by
Franklin
>Roosevelt so that he could be moved into and out of the hotel in his
>wheelchair. There is an emergency exit from the Park Avenue tracks that
>comes up inside the footprint of the Waldorf, with an exit on 49th Street
>just to the west of Inagiku, the hotel's [good] Japanese restaurant.
>
>-David
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rshsdepot-owner_@_lists.railfan.net
>[mailto:rshsdepot-owner_@_lists.railfan.net]On Behalf Of Paul S. Luchter
>Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:01 PM
>To: RSHSDepot
>Subject: (rshsdepot) A "Proud day on the private siding of the Waldorf"
>
>
>So I was perusing the Times for 1946 (yes I know this is quite up to
>date for me), and came across a full page ad with a stylized diesel
>locomotive picture. September 24, 1946 would see a 6000 HP
>Diesel-Electric like those going to the Santa Fe, it said. It must have
>been for viewing, I guess it was implying that. It ended with "This is a
>proud day on the private siding of the Waldorf"  I didn't see any
>pictures in the paper the next day of this event.
>
>What has become of that siding, is it accessible still from the hotel?
>
>Later this week I will send a picture from the same month of the United
>Nations station on the LIRR at Flushing Meadows, with questions....be
>prepared!
>Paul
>
>
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