The latest issue of the Central Headlight is in the mail and on its way to current NYCSHS members!
The cover photo was taken at the Root Street Commissary, in Chicago, in 1951. An appropriate image, since the lead story is on NYC postwar dining service, authored by Geoff Dought. Secondary article is a piece by Tom Gerbracht on how he and others helped preserve U-25B NYC 2500, now on display at the Lake Shore Railway Historical Society in North East, Pennsylvania. The second part of Fred Furminger's article on Maurice Lewman rounds out the feature material.This, and other great stories, information and photographs await the reader in the next
Central Headlight!
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Forlorn Michigan Central Station in Detroit, abandoned since Amtrak vacated in 1988.
Convention Director Richard Croy put on a fine show...
NYCSHS President Darwin Simonaitis addressing the convention attendees.
Ralph Schiring, keynote speaker Jim McClellan, and NYCSHS Director and former President Tom Gerbracht at the Annual Meeting banquet 
At the Annual Meeting banquet
NYCSHS Vice President Bill Strassner, with Directors Howard Fine and Charles Beargie
NYCSHS member Mike Hill with his "Mercury" poster and passenger car plaque
NYCSHS member Mike Hill with fellow member Jeremy Taylor in the cab of C&O 1601.
Right alongside the C&O Allegheny is the DeWitt Clinton, one of the earliest passenger trains operated in the 1830s by New York Central ancestor Mohawk & Hudson Railroad.
A side-by-side comparison of the DeWitt Clinton to the Allegheny.
Central Headlight editor Rich Stoving 
NYCSHS President Darwin Simonaitis
NYCSHS Director Paul Carver 
NYCSHS Treasurer Sheldon Lustig
