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Day Three
The next morning I set off for Columbus, stopping along the way at Newark, OH
to see that station. It is skillfully restored and maintained by The
Foundations, an amalgamation of local community and historical organizations. A
volunteer, named Penny, showed me around the beautifully restored interior. I
got a great shot of the exterior before heading for Columbus .
There is not much left related to the PRR in Columbus, with one interesting
exception: the old Port Columbus airport terminal. This was the transfer station
for the short-lived transcontinental rail-air service, which the PRR introduced
in 1929, in connection with Trans America Transport, a predecessor of TWA.
Passengers boarded a train in New York and rode overnight to a newly constructed
rail station, also called Port Columbus. They walked a short distance to the
airport terminal 
and boarded a Ford Tri-motor for a daytime flight to Waynoka, OK, en route to
Los Angeles via an overnight train ride on the Santa Fe to Clovis, NM and a
daytime flight from there. Amazingly, the original airport terminal building,
along with some contemporary hangers, still exists. I located the airport, and
found the old terminal building. It is nicely preserved and is used as the
engineering office. The Panhandle tracks are visible across the road behind it.
After a stop for lunch, I took off on I-71 for Cincinnati, arriving at the
Best Western-Springdale 
(in a northern suburb), where the meeting was to be held, in time to clean up
the truck, and park it out front for the meeting. It sat there on display until
Saturday evening.
The Destination
The Annual Meeting culminated on Saturday with a banquet in the rotunda 
of
the former Cincinnati Union Terminal 
, an art deco
masterpiece that has become a
center for several museums. This was the ultimate destination of my trip; the
farthest the truck had ever been from home. I was pleased that things had gone
so well. Arrangements had been made for the truck to be parked out front 
of the
terminal for the evening. It had rained off and on throughout Friday and most of
Saturday, but fortunately, the rain held off through Saturday evening. I arrived
early and took the opportunity to pose the truck at various locations on the
plaza in front of the station. It sat at the curb 
, near the main entrance to the
terminal throughout the evening. Having driven this far, it was a pleasing sight
to see!