I had the pleasure of hearing R&B singer Alice Tan Ridley last night at 42nd St. I was running late for a friend’s birthday party, but I had to stop and hear her sing “Midnight Train To Georgia” – she is simply spectacular!
I shot a little video of her singing on my camera I was [...]

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Here is the video where Jodi Rell was in earshot of her rail yard project going well overbudget lonngg before she said she was aware of it:

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Sometimes wall-to-wall train advertising is welcome, as is the case with Westin’s hotel’s new makeover of the New Haven Line Bar Car into a Polynesian Tiki Bar theme. The car previously had all the sex appeal of a 1970’s public school cafeteria. AMNY Subway Tracker has the details.
Personally, I would prefer that MTA do [...]

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Lots of you know the secret of Track 61 at Grand Central, which houses the custom train car built for FDR so he could be transported beneath the city without exposing the public to the extent of his Polio disability.
Today’s Matt Lauer examined the mystery of Track 61 for the Today Show:

Via Trainjotting

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