Chris: THANK YOU for the memories! I left Penn Station in the late Summer of 1962 after my Army basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey to head to Ft. McClellan, Alabama to attend the US Army CBR School. When I arrived in Anniston, AL, I noticed my train had been pulled by Southern EMD F units. The changeover from the GGI occurred at Washington, DC. I travelled coach and it was a modern air conditioned car. The concourse of that station was incredible and it was only years later that I found out about the man, Alexander Cassatt, who was responsible for this amazing structure. His sister was the famous American impressionist painter, Mary Cassatt. Brother and sister obviously had strong artistic sensibilities. We shall likely never again see such a structure as grand as the original Penn Station! :-(
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