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Originally Posted by NYguy
More important than that is getting those new hudson river tunnels built. Other than that, this new station goes a long way towards what a completely rebuilt Penn would. Sadly, the kind of grand construction of the original wouldn't happen today. What you would get is what we are in fact getting now. The problem is the original never should have been destroyed.
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Yeah, as I understand, restoring the old station won't do much for improving operational capacity. As far as I know, the current station is basically the same as the old, as the tracks and platforms are the same. What get lost with the old station was the comfort and convenience of the larger waiting rooms and halls; and of course, the grandiosity and beauty of it. Some people advocate to stop using it as a terminal and let trains continue to NJ or Long Island, so they don't need to ocuppy so many tracks.
Anyway, here's a panorama of the station as it was in 1910, just inaugurated Pretty interesting vista, as you not only see the station, but the old Post Office and the then much more modest skyline of Midtown Manhattan (nevertheless, by that time, it must have been pretty impressive) with the tallest tower being the Times Building.
In this link you can get that panorama at a VERY high resolution, along with many other spectacular panoramas and maps of old New York in high resolution.
http://minimalgoods.co/free-download...ork-city-maps/