Historian 1
It's where Grand Central Terminal is located.
What is New York City?
Engineer William J. Wilgus had this brilliant idea.
What is putting railroad tracks underground and electrifying the trains?
Architects felt people should move through the terminal this way.
What is quickly and efficiently?
The two locations connected by Track 61.
What are Grand Central Terminal and the Waldorf Astoria Hotel?
French artist Paul-Cesar Helleu wanted the Main Concourse ceiling to look like this.
What is a starry sky?
Grand Central Terminal houses this type of transportation.
What are trains?
This family owned the New York Central Railroad.
Who are the Vanderbilts?
It's the design chosen by architects.
What are sloped surfaces (ramps)?
The type of people allowed to use Track 61.
They added about this many glittering gold stars.
What is 2,500?
The trains were powered by this.
What is electricity?
They are the benefits of electric trains.
What are faster and cleaner?
It's why ramps where chosen instead of stairs.
The president who used Track 61 in 1944.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The terminal was equal in size to fifty of these?
It means to knock down.
Engineers did this to know ramps were the right design.
What is study?
It's the number of off buttons located in M42.
What are four?
What are: it was on purpose (looking down from heavens), or it was a mistake?
It's how far down they'd have to dig to make room for the tracks.
What is 90'?
It's the purpose of the buttons in M42.
What is to shut down electricity in case of an emergency?