• "Near Disaster On New England States"

  • 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 ut-1
 
Jay Winn became a railfan in the late 1940s when his grandfather began taking him to Utica NY's Union Station to watch the NY Central.

In this recent video beginning at the 32:25 mark, he discusses some of his remembrances of the NYC including a coal train derailment in Oriskany NY which nearly had disastrous consequences for the westbound New England States:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxyieeqgRiE
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