A Little Treat For Us NH and B&M Fans...

Being a fan of cartoons and comics in addition to my railroad hobby, these were a real treat!

http://www.the-forum.com/ephemera/DAHL.HTM

Some of them are hard to read at first, but once you read them, they're a riot!

Thank you! Those were a treat!
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Re: the crewless train and underground moving platform ones: at some stage in the 1950s-- so, roughly contemporaneous with McGinnis's régime at NH and B&M-- there was a proposal that the 42nd street Shuttle in New York (an isolated bit of IRT subway, connecting Grand Central Terminal and Times Square with no intermediate stops-- be automated. (There may even have been a brief test.) I think there was also a proposal to replace trains on this line with some sort of "moving platform."

Allen Hazen wrote:Thank you! Those were a treat!
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Re: the crewless train and underground moving platform ones: at some stage in the 1950s-- so, roughly contemporaneous with McGinnis's régime at NH and B&M-- there was a proposal that the 42nd street Shuttle in New York (an isolated bit of IRT subway, connecting Grand Central Terminal and Times Square with no intermediate stops-- be automated. (There may even have been a brief test.) I think there was also a proposal to replace trains on this line with some sort of "moving platform."

The shuttle actually WAS successfully automated in the early 1960's, with revenue service starting in January 1962. The automation lasted until the Grand Central shuttle station was destroyed by fire in April 1964.