Speed Graphic Film and Video | Train Watching at 98th Street and Park Avenue @SpeedGraphicFilmVideo | Uploaded August 2020 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
The four-track main line north from Grand Central Terminal emerges from under Park Avenue just north of 97th Street. Long a favorite train-watching location for New York City railfans, this film shows a sample of the rail traffic in 1937 and in 1950. The photographers' vantage points is the now-removed pedestrian overpass at 98th Street.
Some of the scenes included:
0:15 A New York Central S-motor brings a nine-car train, baggage car last, into the tunnel.
0:35 An S-motor brings a 12-car train north directly underneath the camera.
0:54 A New Haven multiple-unit train with two power cars and three trailer cars heads towards GCT.
1:15 A New Haven electric locomotive brings its train south on the same track.
1:31 A northbound NYC MU train.
1:43 A pair of NYC MU trains race north side-by-side towards 125th Street.
1:59 A pair of S-motors bring 5 cars, including a combination baggage car, north.
2:11 NH MU's
2:18 Again, a pair of S-motors with 5 cars. Same train, different angle?
2:25 A New Haven EP-2 electric heads a train that includes some of the NH's newest passenger cars.
2:34 A northbound New York Central MU on the inner track, followed by a New Haven MU on the outer one.
[Update: several commenters reminded me that the tracks emerge north of 97th Street, not 96th.]
The four-track main line north from Grand Central Terminal emerges from under Park Avenue just north of 97th Street. Long a favorite train-watching location for New York City railfans, this film shows a sample of the rail traffic in 1937 and in 1950. The photographers' vantage points is the now-removed pedestrian overpass at 98th Street.
Some of the scenes included:
0:15 A New York Central S-motor brings a nine-car train, baggage car last, into the tunnel.
0:35 An S-motor brings a 12-car train north directly underneath the camera.
0:54 A New Haven multiple-unit train with two power cars and three trailer cars heads towards GCT.
1:15 A New Haven electric locomotive brings its train south on the same track.
1:31 A northbound NYC MU train.
1:43 A pair of NYC MU trains race north side-by-side towards 125th Street.
1:59 A pair of S-motors bring 5 cars, including a combination baggage car, north.
2:11 NH MU's
2:18 Again, a pair of S-motors with 5 cars. Same train, different angle?
2:25 A New Haven EP-2 electric heads a train that includes some of the NH's newest passenger cars.
2:34 A northbound New York Central MU on the inner track, followed by a New Haven MU on the outer one.
[Update: several commenters reminded me that the tracks emerge north of 97th Street, not 96th.]
