the penn station rant

leaving the pink granite facade, to maintain the human scale streetscape, is one of the second biggest misstep behind building MSG in the first place. The cloister of "ruins" around the disastrous Ameri-brutalism wouldve been oddly redeeming. Alas, RANT is the exact right word.

Does WTYP still exist as a viable podcast?

Yea, what the hell. Watched half the video last week, now can’t finish it. What’s the dealio?

It says the video is private now?

Can't help but think of Roz loosing it during the 9/11 episode as news of RBG's death broke. Potential bonus episode? The US supreme court, a politically engineered disaster?

It meets this claim because 1. The journey was a massive undertaking, involving basically 2/3 of the Russian fleet and all ships that mattered and many that did not. 2. The journey was undertaken with near total incompetence often with hilarious and or consequences 3. The journey achieved none of its objectives and added nothing to human knowledge 4. Those who were not insane at the start of the journey were made insane by it.

Given how funny you were I propose you do a Podcast on the Voyage of the Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron in 1905. Generally accepted as the least successful journey undertaken in human history.

Having seen your recent News coverage of Moskva sinking which was very funny, good job nobody died I this "accident" like they normally do when a big explosion happens on a ship, especially if full of poorly trained conscripts.

Writing here because I am deluded enough to think you might take more notice of something written by those who pay directly for your beer.

anyone know if there's a way to get an rss feed of the bonus episodes so I can add it in my podcast app?

Joining the throng to wish the wtypp crew well. I miss the content but, as above stated, mostly hope all are well. Best wishes, folks

I keep getting confused about missing a n episode because these thumbnails are different than the preview's thumbnail. 😂

Nothing's wrong with a break. Hope everybody's OK, tho!

Where's the wtyp crew?

I believe you’ve mixed up the Rangers and the Islanders. The Islanders are their own engineering disaster. The Nassau Coliseum, Rick DiPietro’s contract, Mike Millbury. The year they had a fish stick mascot for a logo. Anyway. Thanks for talking so much about trains.

How is the WTYP crew? I wish you all are doing well.

Anybody home?

"air conditioned" is very relative

Gare Montparnasse does the same walk-the-length-of-your-train-to-board bullshit for TGV lines, it's terrible

Is there an official playlist of bonus eps?

Proposal: we rebuild Old Penn Station down to the bricks at Hudson Yards and let the pols who fantasize about headhouses run around while quietly implementing Tristate S-Bahn and demolishing MSG to do whatever tidying up is left after the S-Bahn is sorted

Any chance of a whole episode on architects with entirely problematic behaviours? I could help on the research

This shit was fire

Is there an RSS feed for the bonus level

Could we get audio-only versions of the bonus episodes, too? I like to listen to you at work, and I can't do that with a youtube; its a medical billing office so I have to use a camera-less special mp3 player for hipaa policy compliance reasons. Thank you!

NYC should just do what the nazis planned for the mediterranean and drain the hudson and east river. so simple

I love a rant that ends in enlightenment

Stanford White Superleggara

There is a bar open in Moynihan now, and I think the Metropolitan (Acela) Lounge serves booze now too.

Driving through Lebanon PA on Sunday just seems rude to the horses. What if we have this whole technology thing wrong?

Nothing better as a wntyp fan and a trucker, than tucking in to one of the three available spots athe the bethel PA Sheets for a HOS reset with a bonus episode waiting. Crossed the susquehanna on I 78. Got to see that rail crossings. It's like infrastructure can last more than a decade...wow.

Future WTYP episode suggestion: The Grover Shoe Factory disaster. Reasons: - It's an engineering disaster. - It involves a ridiculous Rube Goldberg-esque series of events that would make for good podcasting. - It's literally a Grover factory.

I would give you money anyway, as long as I have money, the rent and food are covered, my children are self sufficient and romantic poetry Is directed towards Liam in Scottish dialect.

first time I visited NYC, I came in through Penn Station so I always have fond memories of it

Literally listening to this sitting on the ground in the Moynihan concourse watching people experience the dysfunction of this empty box with trains under it

More Gareth. More Better

“Penn Station got AC”, speaking as someone who has been trapped waiting in the NJ transit concourse during the dead of summer next to a massive fan: citation fucking needed.

A premium audio RSS feed... please, i beg you in the name of everything that is good and holy. I will let you finish in my mouth

Liam, you missed the second half of the joke! The monk pays for the falafel, and waits for his change. After a bit, he asks the seller for his change, and he replies "Change comes from within"

Went through Penn twice back in January and it's difficult to navigate, I ended up having to go outside to find my way to Moynihan both times. Also Moynihan does have ticketed seating but not enough, and since theres no shops yet, the concourse just filled with people standing around doing nothing while they wait.

Love Liam for the mars corporation joke. Born across the street from their factory at the hackettstown hospital. Soviet republic of New Jersey

Dutch accents, mangling whether or not it's THE FREE ONE or the Bonus~ (uuuh), sudden-onset nonce jokes and a terminal case of moi woif, all in the first hour; it turns out that having Milo Edwards (Fake) on the show gives a more complete Trashfuture experience than Milo Edwards (Real). Who'd have thought?

I really like the interiors of stations like these. The exteriors are usually too dull and slab like for me. Older stations look cooler form the outside. That said, it would be really cool to see a train station designed by Mies van der Rohe or one of his students.

My late father's favourite comedy recording was plummy British actor Reginald Gardiner's "Trains." It's dated, but pretty charming, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgZlT1IA8-U

Speaking of Americans getting involved in cricket, wasn't there some financier that ran some sort of cricket-based scam a few years ago?

It was the rangers that the railroad had a stake in not the islanders. The islanders didn’t exist until ‘72.

When a three-hour WTYP is posted right before my shift I get very happy.

Don't hate on corkscrew inclines, Alice! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendsburg_Loop Although.. Fun fact! Up until the 1980s conductors would need to lock the toilets (which still emptied out on the tracks at that time), because the iron construction of the loop leads over residential buildings - which they SOMETIMES did.

Extremely cool thing to put on while getting on the train at New Brunswick

oh HERE WE GO

Roz rulz

As a native New Yorker I have been patiently expecting this episode, but not too patiently because I'M WALKING HERE