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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Wed Jan 10 17:49:47 2018, in response to Re: The Most Awful Transit Center in America Could Get Unimaginably Worse, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Wed Jan 10 17:06:42 2018. yes it was grubby and in serious need of cleaning. The differing ways PRR and NYC behaved in the dismal nearly bankrupt decade before the merger were very odd. PRR maintained the B'way Ltd as pure 1st class with few passengers and downgraded everything else--rebuilt sleepers turned ito coaches with seats where there were no windows, the end of almost all dining cars, sloppy operations. NYC had added coaches AND Sleepercoaches to the 20th Century and other trains, but in 67 when I had booked a sleepercoach, I got roomette with a cigaret butt from the previous rider still in the ashtray as our train originated at GCT. Perlman made a PR splash with the jet powered RDC, and announced thatcars for the Century would go through a special rehab program including a plate indicating assignment. So there I was at Rhinecliff (certainly not a stop for the TCL) watching my train roll in with a coach so designated. Yet until the last, they rolled out the Red Carpet at GCT. |
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