i am not sure everybody knows,that there are only 22 FL-9’s left,38 were cut up for scrap including the FL-9 a/c,models that were test beds for the Long Island,DM 30 a/c dual modes.it is a shame when a railroad or an agency who owns a railroad cares more about money then history,which will bite them in the pants.i am lucky i own 3 FL-9’s in HO-scale.1,brass,from The caboose,in conn.and 2 others by Mark Castaglione.of Branford Hobbies,in Branford,Ct.i hope that the people in power have the compassion to keep the other FL-9’s from being scrapped.maybe some one should have their cars scrapped,let them know how other’s feel.The maybe no snap judgements.Thanks,have a great weekend,and God bless.

There was an American Railway Express Company. I don’t know if it became the American Express of today. Old depot photos sometimes have a sign on them with this name.

Whilst working in the Terminal (1963-’68) as an “Air-Rights” construction superintendent and NYCS coordinator, I remember tracks 11-13. There was no track 12, as the space was taken up by mail handling chutes-and-ladders. No passenger tracks east of 11, just storage. The express company service was long gone. Lots of NYNH&H mail trains. A few NYC, too. “Famed” (FDR) track 61 was a dirty mess and used to lay-over FL9s, etc.. Tower “C” handled all of this.

The building of the Graybar Building and its passage is key, though. Tracks 1-17 on the lower level; tracks 18 to 42 on the upper. The Graybar tracks just seem too haphazard to have been planned for passenger use from the start. Take a look at today’s platform between tracks 16 and 17, the westernmost in the passage: it has terrible visibility (you can’t see your train on track 17 until you’re next to it) because of the huge supports on the platform, which, I imagine, support either the Terminal itself or the Graybar building.

The other tracks in the Graybar passage are just as bad. Track 15 is lower than the others, and it’s platform-mate track 14 is still used for garbage loading, never for passengers. Tracks 13 and 11 don’t even have a ramp (I suppose 12 never existed or is under the 13/11 platform).

This makes the planning involved in the terminal even more incredible. Somehow the track numbers lined up so that tracks 1-17 on the upper level wouldn’t have public platforms, while tracks 101-117 on the lower level would, so that the platforms could be numbered from 1 to 42. This is quite an amazing thing you’ve found here.

Shh… I like to talk about the Harlem Division whenever I can. Pittsfield and North Adams still showed up on our form 112’s until the early 50’s ;)

Oh, Millerton was a given, but that was part of the original Harlem. Pittsfield and North Adams were funky add on bonuses :)