Get ready for our 2011 Annual Meeting in Albany, NY!

Get ready for the 2011 Annual Meeting and Convention at the Albany Ramada Plaza Hotel in Albany, New York! A crossroads of the New York Central, featuring the Boston & Albany, as well as the the Hudson, River, and Mohawk Divisions! Albany was once home to large passenger terminals downtown and in nearby Troy. Come join us in this historic city as we celebrate the history and heritage of the New York Central System!

Download the registration form here.

April 29-May 1, 2011

Friday, April 29

- Registration
- Tour nationally recognized O scale layouts
- Evening speakers program

Saturday, April 30

- Adirondack Scenic Railroad excursion, 104 mile round trip from Utica to Thendara, with box lunch
- Annual NYCSHS Banquet
- Presentation by Thomas R. Gerbracht, NYCSHS, "Locomotive Building at Erie, PA."
- NYCSHS Membership Meeting

Sunday, May 1

- Railroadiana Show and Sale
- All-Day Speakers Program

Speakers (Subject to Change):

- Rich Stoving, NYCSHS Editor, "Publishing the Central Headlight"
- Shel Lustig, NYCSHS Treasurer, "My Career with the NYC, PC, and Conrail"
- Darwin Simonaitis, NYCSHS President, "Locomotives of the NYC System"
- Carl J. Liba, NYCSHS, "New York Central Hudsons and their Trains"
- Dick Steinbrenner, NYCSHS, and John Mech, "Alco Historical & Technical Society, Future Plans and Goals"
- Ernie Mann, NYCSHS, "Railroads of Rennselaer"
- Alan Bell, NYCSHS, "Modeling the NYC at the Albany Gateway"
- Jim Shaughnessy, "Remembering the NYC at Troy and Albany"
- Michael Kudish, "Where Did the Tracks Go? The Adirondack and Catskill Lines"
- Len Killian, NYCSHS, "Long Life and Slow Death of the NYC Station at Schenectady"
- Ron Parisi, NYCSHS, "West Side Freight Line to High Line Park"

Registration Fee:

- $154.00 before April 1, 2011
- $179.00 after April 1, 2011

- Non-members may register for $154.00 plus $39.00 extra to cover your one year membership in the New York Central System Historical Society, which provides all the rights and priveldges of membership, including four issues of the Central Headlight.

Download the registration form here.

Convention Lodging

Albany Ramada Plaza Hotel <-- NOTE NEW NAME! (same location)
3 Watervliet Ave Ext.
Albany, NY 12206

You are responsible for making your own accomodation reservations. Rooms can be reserved at the special Convention rate of $89.00, but you must mention "NYCSHS" to get the rate. Early reservations are a must as only 80 rooms have been set aside on a first-come, first-served basis. Call the hotel directly at (518) 438-8431.

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