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August 6, 2010

A Cinematic Look at NYC’s Penn Station

Let’s take a look at New York City’s Pennsylvania Station — one of the most architecturally-significant pieces of railroad history — as seen through the Hollywood’s camera lenses. This short video is a compilation of scenes and footage taken from various movies filmed at the famous station (or at stage sets built to represent it) before the main structure was demolished in 1963. Included, you’ll see the famous, sweeping steel and glass arches, the bussling stairways and concourse, information desks and signage. Take note of the floor-to-ceiling height of this massive building and the shear number of people moving through it.

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— Co-founder of N Scale Limited, Frank has been building models since childhood and modeling in N scale since 2oo3. He is the former author of the blog, N Scale Modeling. Frank has a passion for big city modeling, the 1940s and the Pennsylvania Railroad.
  • Greg Woolliscroft

    I love this old footage of a grand old father figure of great architecture…what a poor relative it looks now compared to this…..

  • Greg Woolliscroft

    I love this old footage of a grand old father figure of great architecture…what a poor relative it looks now compared to this…..

  • Anonymous

    What a grand old structure. I’m glad to haved passed through there several times about a year before it was lost to “progress”.

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