Penn Station Run-Through

Grand tour of New York's Pennsylvania Station on Woody's railroad, showing the arriving Twentieth Century Limited of the New York Central and trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Milwaukee Road, Union Pacific, Amtrak's Acelas, and the California Zephyr

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• railroads
• pennsylvania station
• model trains
• New York Central
• Hiawatha

[CORKYANDERSON]

Penn station, NYC, has no loop track. NO New York Central equipment was welcome there. Station has no bumper tracks at passenger platforms. UP and Hiawatha obs cars did not appear there regularly. And, of course, NO steamers appeared there in revenue service. Oddly, no PRR equipment is seen! The track layout is closer to that of Grand Central Terminal, NYC. CORKY FROM THE BRONX

[woodynj]

Thanks for your insightful and totally accurate comment. However, in Woody's World and because I don't have unlimited amounts of real estate, MY Penn Station has to have a loop track, bumpers on stub tracks, plus something had happened at Grand Central, so NYC trains are calling here, and Milw Rd and UP trains are doing demonstration runs. I do have plenty of PRR trains...I guess I just didn't have any in the station when the video was made. Thanks for writing.

[GavinSimmons]

First off, your Penn Station is very impressive!

Would you mind telling me what you used for the stairs? I assume you kitbashed some pedestrian overpasses?

[woodynj]

Thanks! We're still working on the building itself. Correct assumption about kitbashing some pedestrian overpasses. I bought a close-out of Lionel's pedestrian overpasses (w/o the electronics of the speed read-out gizmo), did some cutting and gluing of those to form the stairs down to the ramp and on to the track level. I've got some of the pedestrian crossovers left over, in case you need some.

[directing101]

what is the red thing at 2:57 - 3:05

[woodynj]

The red screen with the dark gray base is a bar-code scanner. You may have noticed the bar code on the side of the leading "A" unit diesel at 1:48, which is read by the scanner. A computer plays the appropriate arrival/departure announcement thru the station's loudspeakers. Thanks for writing!

[streamlinedtrains]

Hi, I love your version of Penn Station! Unfortunately, It was torn down before my time, so I never knew what it really looked like. One day though, when I have a permanent layout, I'll build a version of Washington's Union Station, in HO. I have so many classic streamliners myself that I'd need a big station to accommodate them!

[jackechan007]

Now THATS some advanced circuitry!