Sorry, once again I have less than 24 hours notice about the appearance of the M-8 Railcar interior mockup.
Tommorrow it will be at Stamford Metro-North Station at slightly more generous hours than the ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ hours at the New Haven demo – 7 to 10 a.m. and from 4 to 7 p.m.
Until [...]

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Update: In answer to some emails, the video was created with a Canon HG10 HD Digital Camcorder, a Canon SD870IS for the stills, edited with Pinnacle Studio 11 on Windows Vista Ultimate. A Shure SM57 Microphone was used for the voiceover narration, connected to the PC via Creative Labs X-Fi .

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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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We have updated our Metro-North Schedules to reflect the schedule changes which take effect tomorrow morning.
Make sure you check your schedule carefully before leaving for work (and coming home) – although some lines are less effected than others, you may notice that some trains have been rescheduled – some by as little as a minute.
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Ask a lot of Americans what the minimum age someone should be before they ride the New York City Subway alone, and the average answer is probably around 37.

Some probable reasons:

Most Americans have never actually ridden the NYC subway recently.
New York City used to have a significant crime problem.
New York City is the most [...]

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Train pictures are usually more of a rail enthusiast thing – and although that isn’t the focus of our blog, I certainly don’t mind serving up a train photo or two for our crossover readers.
(Warning – as some of these links which follow are to unmoderated Usenet content, some may be Not Safe For Work [...]

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