Last Call for NYP Solari Board

[Grandpa D]

https://twitter.com/danielleiat/status/786209310334414848

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161011/midtown/penn-station-amtrak-trains-departures-board

 

[PRR 60]

https://twitter.com/danielleiat/status/786209310334414848

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161011/midtown/penn-station-amtrak-trains-departures-board

The New York Penn Station departures board being replaced is not a Solari board. It's an older electronic display.

 

[crescent-zephyr]

https://twitter.com/danielleiat/status/786209310334414848

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161011/midtown/penn-station-amtrak-trains-departures-board

The New York Penn Station departures board being replaced is not a Solari board. It's an older electronic display.

It's technically a solari board, since it was made by Solari. Correct?

 

[PVD]

I thought it was made by someone else, but with a style meant to emulate the Solari that it replaced, but I'm not 100% on that.

 

[RPC]

The present board is an electronic display which replaced the "flip-style" Solari board. An interesting feature of the electronic board is a speaker which plays a recording of the Solari board flipping when the electronic display updates. This was specified so that travelers on autopilot would look at the board when it updated.

 

[jis]

I don't think the New York ever had that noise making feature working, if it has it at all. The Boston South Station Board does.

 

[John Bobinyec]

Need to try again.

jb

Edit: Looks like I'm going to have to work some more to get the pictures to display.

 

[John Bobinyec]

Here are some recent pictures from NYP:

The old display board, still in service.



There are several of these new displays:



And there are displays at the entrances to the tracks:



jb

(Pictures taken by sb).

 

[KnightRail]

New and old boards have been operating concurrently for the past few months while the new ones proved themselves the old remained as back up protection. Sounds like now is actually the last call for the old boards. The old boards will be removed "in the next few weeks."

 

[philabos]

Big improvement on the track signs.

You can actually see them over the mob.

 

[John Bobinyec]

A reporter from PIX11 News informed me that they're planning to run a story tonight about taking down the old display board at NYP. He had run across my virtual solari boards, wanted some information and planned to mention it in the story.

Gee I'd like to see that broadcast (assuming it's on TV - I don't know). If someone can point me to it, or perhaps capture it and post it on Youtube, I'd appreciate it.

jb

 

[KnightRail]

PIX11 live stream their newscasts on their website.

 

[John Bobinyec]

He contacted me back and let me know they live stream at 10 p.m. eastern, at http://www.pix11.com/live

jb