• 2018: 50th anniversary of the PC merger

  • Discussion relating to the NYC and subsidiaries, up to 1968. Visit the NYCS Historical Society for more information.
Discussion relating to the NYC and subsidiaries, up to 1968. Visit the NYCS Historical Society for more information.

Moderator: Otto Vondrak

  by Franklin Gowen
 
Fifty (!!!) years ago yesterday - February 1, 1968 - was the first 24 hours of the Penn Central.
"What a long, strange trip it's been." :wink:
Hard, indeed, to believe that NYC has now been gone for a full half-century.
  by BR&P
 
If anyone had told us back then what the railroad industry would be like today, they would have been sent to the loony bin.