Bulletin: 23rd Annual Exhibition. N.Y. Society of Model Engineers, Inc., Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken, N.J. Vol. 16, No. 1, Feb. 1953.

Archive

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Hoboken Historical Museum

front cover, pg [1]

front cover, pg [1]

Name/Title

Bulletin: 23rd Annual Exhibition. N.Y. Society of Model Engineers, Inc., Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken, N.J. Vol. 16, No. 1, Feb. 1953.

Entry/Object ID

2013.001.0045

Scope and Content

Twenty Third Annual Exhibition 1953. Bulletin of New York Society of Model Engineers, Inc., Lackawanna Terminal, Hoboken, N.J. Volume 16, No. 1, February 1953. Pamphlet, 5-7/16" x 8-1/4" high, [16] pp. This group of model railroaders had been using space in the upper level ferry concourse at the terminal since 1948 as a guest of the Lackawanna Railroad. It was the largest model railroad in the world. The main model was called the Union Connecting Railroad or UCRR; a second one was the Union, Hoboken & Overland Railroad. The cover depicts and artists drawing of a river side view of the Lackawanna Terminal with the ferry slips. It includes the clock tower which was damaged in a 1950 storm and removed and replaced with a radio tower until 2008. ---- train / trains / program

Acquisition

Accession

2013.001

Source or Donor

Purchase

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Museum Collections.

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1953 - 1953

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1953 Date(s): 1953

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

General Notes

Note

Notes: Text as found in 2012 at the History section of the New York Society of Model Engineers (NYSME) website: http://modelengineers.org/history.htm The Lackawanna Railroad discontinued some of their ferry service after World War II, and we were able to secure the upper ferry concourse at the Hoboken Terminal. At this site we built the largest model railroad in the world at that time. In 1958, the Society was evicted again, this time by the United States Postal Service. The concourse was going to serve as a mail sorting area. But after the railroads were dismantled, the USPS decided to let the airlines handle first class mail. The concourse was never occupied and we were invited to move back. By that time, however, we had purchased our own building and moved to our current location in Carlstadt, NJ. Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2013-11-15