April 15, 2021: Day trip to New York's Moynihan Train Hall
A lot of us have had to put our travel plans on hold for the past 14 months. But there's one place I'd been pining to see since it opened in January -- New York's new Moynihan Train Hall. New York has had a history of grand stations past. But the grandest of all, Grand Central Terminal, currently only serves Metro-North trains, and of course the NYC subway. Up until the spring of '91 some Amtrak trains ran out of Grand Central, but this proved inconvenient to passengers who needed to make connections and were forced to go from one station to the other. And then there's Penn Station. It too was once a beautiful, glowing station until it was torn down in the 1960s to make way for Madison Square Garden. The train station moved underground into the cavernous, often dingy confines that travelers have come to know. The station houses Amtrak, NJ Transit, Long Island Railroad and PATH trains in addition to the subway. While not the most glamorous of stations, it's gotte