Thanks for the information. I recognize the building from the movie Coogans Bluff. A Pan AM Chinook helicopter lands on the roof and Clint Eastwood is on board.
Wow Shawn, you made it to the NJ High-Railers! Is that place incredible or what? I've been lucky enough to visit twice. The first time was 15 years ago when the High-Railers hosted my late brother-in-law's N Gauge Club, the Northern New Jersey N-Trak club. He had access to the building and gave a friend and me a private tour. (The N-Trakers layout was where the Tom Snyder Standard Gauge layout is now.) Needless to say I was stunned! The second time was a High-Railers open house that coincided with one of our visits to NJ. I wasn't as stunned as the first time but had a ball just the same. I even bought two RMT Public Service "Beeps" at their mini-train show! It was a great visit! More later, I'm going to have to take your video in sections, it's a long one! I'm back! An amazing place! You know, I saw that track diagram and my head spun, I don't think I could ever keep it straight! Oh, the Pan Am building is still there in New York, now it's the MetLife building. Thanks for bringing us along!
I love in the sign for the New Jersey high railers sandwich between the two locomotives is a Redbird subway car from New York City in my day of the '70s and earlier. I lived right by the F line that ran above Jamaica Avenue. It was so stupid of New York and all the other municipalities to destroy their elevated train lines and their streetcar systems especially nowadays when everybody wants green transportation that doesn't make pollution our pedestrian friendly cities were destroyed by the automobile. And that was an American made automobile with cheap gas and now there's no American-made Automobiles and there's no such thing as cheap gas. I remember when gas smelled good and as a kid you stuck your head out the window and breathed deep there's gas smelled wonderful back then plus you would get a Matchbox car with a full tank of gas. You remember gas Wars when gas went down? You don't see that anymore do you rotten saving bastards the oil companies are today they all should be boiled in their own oil.
You're not alone, I remember gas wars too! But remember in those days gas stations didn't make much money on gas sales, they made it on car repairs. There aren't too many gas stations that do repairs anymore, now it's one or the other. Gas wars won't ever return.
Merry Christmas. May Santa bring you some BIG STEAM...
Thanks much. I could go for a Union Pacific Challenger.
Great video! I am hoping someday to see it! Happy holidays to you!
Happy holidays! Thanks much.
Nice Job Shawn. Wish I could have been there
Thanks much
Merry Christmas Shawn. Just uploaded my ROW tribute.
Merry Christmas to you as well
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
yeah the old Pan Am building is MetLife i believe now that's a classic building
Thanks for the information. I recognize the building from the movie Coogans Bluff. A Pan AM Chinook helicopter lands on the roof and Clint Eastwood is on board.
Wow Shawn, you made it to the NJ High-Railers! Is that place incredible or what?
I've been lucky enough to visit twice. The first time was 15 years ago when the High-Railers hosted my late brother-in-law's N Gauge Club, the Northern New Jersey N-Trak club. He had access to the building and gave a friend and me a private tour. (The N-Trakers layout was where the Tom Snyder Standard Gauge layout is now.) Needless to say I was stunned! The second time was a High-Railers open house that coincided with one of our visits to NJ. I wasn't as stunned as the first time but had a ball just the same. I even bought two RMT Public Service "Beeps" at their mini-train show! It was a great visit!
More later, I'm going to have to take your video in sections, it's a long one!
I'm back! An amazing place! You know, I saw that track diagram and my head spun, I don't think I could ever keep it straight! Oh, the Pan Am building is still there in New York, now it's the MetLife building.
Thanks for bringing us along!
This is actually my second visit to the NJ Hi-Railers. I was there in 2021 and made a Halloween Special video
@@Dakman Thanks! I missed that one! I'll go lookin'!
I love in the sign for the New Jersey high railers sandwich between the two locomotives is a Redbird subway car from New York City in my day of the '70s and earlier. I lived right by the F line that ran above Jamaica Avenue. It was so stupid of New York and all the other municipalities to destroy their elevated train lines and their streetcar systems especially nowadays when everybody wants green transportation that doesn't make pollution our pedestrian friendly cities were destroyed by the automobile. And that was an American made automobile with cheap gas and now there's no American-made Automobiles and there's no such thing as cheap gas. I remember when gas smelled good and as a kid you stuck your head out the window and breathed deep there's gas smelled wonderful back then plus you would get a Matchbox car with a full tank of gas. You remember gas Wars when gas went down? You don't see that anymore do you rotten saving bastards the oil companies are today they all should be boiled in their own oil.
You're not alone, I remember gas wars too! But remember in those days gas stations didn't make much money on gas sales, they made it on car repairs. There aren't too many gas stations that do repairs anymore, now it's one or the other. Gas wars won't ever return.