{"id":3613,"date":"2009-07-26T11:06:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2009-08-13T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T02:51:09","slug":"grand-central-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/?p=3613","title":{"rendered":"Grand Central Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Grand Place.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Often mistakenly called Grand Central Station, this former railroad terminal is now the home to the Metro Link<\/span> Metro North commuter railroad and sees heavy use.\u00a0 It has to be seen to be believed, it is quite an architectural marvel and a feat of engineering.\u00a0 There are no railroad tracks visible anywhere near the station, instead all trains enter the terminal via several miles of tunnels under Central Park<\/span> Park Avenue that begin just past Harlem.<\/p>\n

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After the Train Show was wrapped up in Hartford, we rented a car and headed to New York City for a few days.\u00a0 We ended up staying in White Plains, which is about 25 minutes outside of Manhattan.\u00a0 We stayed at a hotel there and took the Metro Link into Grand Central Terminal everyday.\u00a0 This is the best way to get in and out of the city, as driving around there is not for the faint of heart, plus we got to take a train into this historic terminal.<\/p>\n

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The famous clock in Grand Central.\u00a0 The faces on this are made of Opal, the clock is valued between 10-20 million dollars.<\/p>\n

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Apparently only 40% of the traffic through here is commuters, the rest are tourists.<\/p>\n

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I looked, there wasn’t a single light bulb burned out.<\/p>\n

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Micheal Jordan’s steakhouse.\u00a0 I think Micheal was in the back preparing the steaks.<\/p>\n

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The ceiling has to be seen to be believed.\u00a0 I would guess the height of the ceiling to be at least 100′.\u00a0 I pumped up the contrast in this picture to reveal all the panels.\u00a0 Apparently when the station underwent a 450 million dollar renovation in the 1990’s the ceiling was quite black.\u00a0 It was assumed that the blackening was from the coal smoke from the steam trains, but after analysis it was determined to be the smoke from cigarettes.<\/p>\n

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I just could not get any shots without people.<\/p>\n

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Looking into the Oyster Bar restaurant.<\/p>\n

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The grill to the air vent.\u00a0 No detail is overlooked.<\/p>\n

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The food court below the main station.<\/p>\n

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HDR image of one of the entrances to the main terminal.<\/p>\n

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Its quite a place, fortunately it was spared from the numerous attempts to tear it down.\u00a0 Unlike Penn Station, it was spared and completely restored.\u00a0 Its only use now is for commuter trains, and used it is!<\/p>\n

-T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Grand Place. Often mistakenly called Grand Central Station, this former railroad terminal is now the home to the Metro Link Metro North commuter railroad and sees heavy use.\u00a0 It has to be seen to be believed, it is quite an architectural marvel and a feat of engineering.\u00a0 There are no railroad tracks visible anywhere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,4],"tags":[142,27,113,114,28],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2009-nmra-train-show-hartford","category-front-page","tag-2009-nmra-train-show-hartford","tag-cnj-bronx-terminal","tag-grand-central-terminal","tag-new-york-city","tag-tim-warris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronx-terminal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}