Anyone knowing of interesting bits of passenger nostalgia may want to join this discussion. I'll start with an audio and slide show featuring the late, great Penn Station train announcer Danny Simmons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-NeTmbrTpk
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PETER C HOYT Anyone knowing of interesting bits of passenger nostalgia may want to join this discussion. I'll start with an audio and slide show featuring the late, great Penn Station train announcer Danny Simmons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-NeTmbrTpk
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Great set of pipes!
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
Thank you gentlemen! BTW, how'd ya do it?
And oh yeah, a great set of pipes indeed. They don't make 'em that that anymore.
paste the link into your browser.
if you get the funny message click on it and when you get the option to allow in the upper left click that too.
should work - does for me
enjoy!
wanswheel Here’s a link to NY Times article about Danny Simmons. It seems he died in 2008. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/05/nyregion/about-new-york-the-acclaimed-orator-of-pennsyulvania-staion.html
Thanks for sharing that great story. I first heard Danny around 1991 when I was between trains and ended up taking a later train. I met him that day and several times since, culminating in my interview in 1994 for the PTJ. Danny truly loved people and graciously allowed visitors in his announcers' booth, sometimes to the chagrin of station managers.
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