Re: (rshsdepot) Cincinnati Union Terminal Model

[Don Mills <dmills_@_marshall.edu>]

Is the show this coming weekend.  don
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From: "William Spurlock" <ilock_@_bellsouth.net>
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Subject: (rshsdepot) Cincinnati Union Terminal Model


> After 10 months of work we finished just days before the National Model
> Railroad Show, a model of the Cincinnati Union Terminal built from over
> 150,000 Lego bricks. The model was the hit of the show and received much
> media coverage, both TV and newspaper. If your interested in seeing a few
> photos of it at the show, I've placed them at the following URL:
>
> http://www.railstations.org/lego/index.htm
>
> The station will be on display again at the Cincinnati Museum Center
(former
> Union Terminal) early next month as a part of the SummerRail festival and
> again as a part of the Holiday Junction show over the holidays.
>
> Bill Spurlock
>
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> [mailto:rshsdepot-owner_@_lists.railfan.net] On Behalf Of Will Enser
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:55 AM
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> Subject: (rshsdepot) New Penn Station no longer dream
>
>
> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/329448p-281556c.html
>
> New Penn Station no longer dream
> BY PAUL D. COLFORD
> DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
> Tuesday, July 19th, 2005
>
> State and city officials yesterday named the developers who will replace
> one of the city's lost jewels - the old Pennsylvania Station - with a new
> gem.
> After years of delay, the city, state and two big developers are all
> aboard with a design to turn the main post office on Eighth Ave. into a
> grand transit hub recalling the elegant Pennsylvania Station that was
> razed in 1963.
>
> The $818 million plan will preserve the handsome facade of the James A.
> Farley Post Office, erected in 1913, while adapting the building as the
> new Daniel Patrick Moynihan Station, to honor the late U.S. senator, who
> pushed hard for the idea.
>
> "This is going to be a magnificent gateway for New York," Gov. Pataki said
> at yesterday's unveiling of the design, which also calls for shops,
> restaurants and a boutique hotel.
>
> Pataki noted that more than 500,000 subway, NJTransit, Long Island Rail
> Road and Amtrak riders a day now use Penn Station, a bland hub located
> across Eighth Ave. He called the current location "horribly inadequate."
> It's "certainly not an appropriate gateway to the greatest city in the
> world," he added.
>
> As envisioned by James Carpenter Design Associates, in collaboration with
> Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, the new central train hall will mirror the
> old Penn Station through the addition of tall, steel arches on which will
> sit a huge, yet lightweight, skylight.
>
> A second, so-called "grid shell skylight" will be set atop a hall to be
> located roughly in the middle of the building, between Eighth and Ninth
> Aves., that will serve as a taxi station and baggage dropoff.
>
> The winning plan for the project was submitted by a team of major New York
> developers, The Related Cos. and Vornado Realty Trust, which has extensive
> holdings in the area.
>
> The companies will put up about $300 million of the projected $818 million
> cost at different stages before the work is completed in 2010.
>
> The city, state and federal governments and the Port Authority are also
> helping to fund the project, whose main transit beneficiary will be
> NJTransit trains.
>
> The congestion that commuters now face in reaching the track level in Penn
> Station will be relieved with the addition of staircases and other access
> to 11 platforms that already sit under the Farley building.
>
> The Postal Service will occupy 250,000 square feet.
>
> Up to 1 million square feet of air rights will be applied to the northeast
> corner of Eighth Ave. and 33rd St., where a Duane Reade store now stands.
> A residential tower is expected to rise there, next to Vornado-owned 1Penn
> Plaza.
>
> "The completion of the Moynihan Station gives a second chance to recapture
> the extraordinary station that once was Penn Station," said Charles
> Gargano, chairman of the state Economic Development Corp.
>
> Gargano's agency spearheaded the plan and arranged for the planned
> purchase of the Farley building from the Postal Service for $230 million.
>
> Yesterday's unveiling was the latest chapter in a long-running effort to
> give the Farley building new life as a transit hub.
>
> Moynihan's dream project seemed far along six years ago, when
> then-President Bill Clinton came to New York to join Pataki and the
> senator in introducing plans for "the new Penn Station" in the Farley
> building.
>
> Amtrak, the owner of Penn Station, was then onboard, but has since pulled
> back its planned financial contribution.
>
> Mayor Bloomberg said the project will create more than 10,000 construction
> jobs, more than 3,300 permanent jobs and more than $50 million a year
> intax revenue, and provide an anchor destination amid plans for new West
> Side development.
>
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