Alain
Member
Hello All,
By way of introduction, I was born in Newark [yea, that one!] in the late 1940's.
My best friend and I used to invest our Saturdays/Sundays [and our allowances!] chasing diesels and GG-1's all over Penn Station. Tracks 1,2 and 3 were our main haunts in the late 1950's and very early 60's. Track 2 is where the GG-1's would glide in. The one in the attached photo is on Track 2 and I can still hear the hum of those motors winding down to a halt! BBBBBbbbrrrrrrrr...
The "Hudson Tubes" hold a fond spot in my heart too, [you can see the signage for "the tubes" in upper RH of photo] as does the Newark Subway cars. Great fun for two kids running loose in Newark's Penn Station all day; subsisting on burgundy soda machines and hot dogs...and NO adult supervision!
Anyway, would the members of this forum consider just scanning the frequencies from 159 thru 160 MHz sufficient to get started in this type of monitoring? I ask because now I'm in San Diego...and maybe reliving my youth, just a bit, once again! TIA.
By way of introduction, I was born in Newark [yea, that one!] in the late 1940's.
My best friend and I used to invest our Saturdays/Sundays [and our allowances!] chasing diesels and GG-1's all over Penn Station. Tracks 1,2 and 3 were our main haunts in the late 1950's and very early 60's. Track 2 is where the GG-1's would glide in. The one in the attached photo is on Track 2 and I can still hear the hum of those motors winding down to a halt! BBBBBbbbrrrrrrrr...
The "Hudson Tubes" hold a fond spot in my heart too, [you can see the signage for "the tubes" in upper RH of photo] as does the Newark Subway cars. Great fun for two kids running loose in Newark's Penn Station all day; subsisting on burgundy soda machines and hot dogs...and NO adult supervision!
Anyway, would the members of this forum consider just scanning the frequencies from 159 thru 160 MHz sufficient to get started in this type of monitoring? I ask because now I'm in San Diego...and maybe reliving my youth, just a bit, once again! TIA.