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Posted by Allan on Fri Sep 30 15:31:22 2016, in response to Re: 72nd and Broadway, posted by randyo on Fri Sep 30 13:00:55 2016. randy - you must be thinking of a different book.I doubled checked my copies of the IRT book (The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment) and even went to the scanned version at nycsubway.org and did a search for the terms Grand Central and also 42 St (actually 42d St back in those days). Nothing came up for Grand Central and only a minor item came up for 42 St. I do recall a mention in another book (I think it was one of Stan Fischler's) about a spur track just outside of Grand Central where August Belmont stored the Mineola. There is supposedly an entrance to the Belmont Hotel to where the spur was. I also looked again at the 1905 Edison film 14th St to 42nd St in the Library of Congress archives and nothing shows as the n/b local approached Grand Central other than a switch from track 4 to track 3. https://www.loc.gov/item/00694394/ It would be nice if you can remember exactly which book and page and what film you saw. Based on what I have found (and I looked every place I can think of) there was not a spur track set up like 72nd St at the original Grand Central station. If anyone else has any ideas - sound off. |
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