Tour of Grand Central's top-secret tunnel that only presidents use

It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as president. He went through great lengths to hide this disease from the press and the public. One of his many tricks of disguise can still be seen on a secret track, hidden below Grand Central Terminal.
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[@teddykgb3865]

2:13 Wait a minute .. hold up! You're telling me they moved an elevator by pushing a button? Get the hell outta here with that mess!!

[@NanobanaKinako]

Wow, pushing a button to move an elevator, what a complex trivia to explain.

[@NHPsychoticGoat]

Its called track 61, it was NOT built for FDR, Fact is, it was built in 1929, 3 yrs prior to him being elected president, he used it once in 1944, it was orig a freight elevator with track -the elevator was a direct link to the hotel...but it was NOT built just for him.

[@user-bf9le4qq2w]

nice 😊

[@DX88]

"The location is still confidential." Hell no it isn't, the gold entry door is clearly visible from the outside and the location is all over google.

[@realniggsolo]

Yeah, but they're point was that you just can't get in.

[@DX88]

@@realniggsolo They said confidential. That means secret/hidden, it's not.

[@DX88]

That has nothing to do with my statement though. I was quoting "The location is still confidential."

[@markahlers6011]

More proof at just how DISGUSTING the democRAT party is and has been for a long time. They always cry for "equality" yet prove they are all about money and power. FDR by the start of his 3rd term was in similar condition to the senile old fool we have today.. Stalin also had his own private subway under the Moscow Metro..

[@arghyaprotimhalder5592]

@@realniggsolo they sealed most doors with concrete except few for who knows they government do there

[@rupe53]

I believe this guy did commentary on a similar video for Discovery / History Channel a few years ago and it's obvious he doesn't have all the fact straight when they show a RR car that doesn't have a large enough door to stow an automobile, and neither does the elevator. Also "backing right into the ballroom" is not correct because NOBODY drives into a ballroom. They might use a special entrance from the outside but can't drive into the facility directly. BTW, this was never a secret entrance. Employees are aware that most commercial buildings have a loading dock or back door for deliveries, and in that era most well to do people traveled via RR so likely that entrance (or another) was much better looking in the day. After all, well off people usually don't enter through the same door as the janitor or kitchen supplies.

[@RMoribayashi]

It was NOT a secret taht FDR had (past tense) polio. It was a secret that he was paraplegic. He could appear to walk with heavy steel leg braces and two strong men at his side. This made him look like a strong man fighting instead of the apparent weakness associated with being in a wheelchair. Unlike today most of the press were in on the secret and even the opposition press wouldn't think to exposed him. I miss those innocent days.

[@Ham549]

RMoribayashi political opponents mentioned it however.

[@TheOwenMajor]

innocent days where the elites conspired unchallenged to lie to the public, good times.

[@frostbite3318]

@@TheOwenMajor 😂

[@Ham549]

Almost everything about this story is bullshit. That station was built long before FDR became president and that train cars is just a standard baggage car.

[@bonez319]

Why would FDR need to drive a car DIRECTLY into the Waldorf Astoria ballroom?

[@Ham549]

Christopher Scott he woulden't this is all s bunch of bullshit

[@aita2565]

Christopher Scott It was moved to the garage not the ballroom, and he used the track (which isn't even made for him) only once to hide his case of polio

[@triumph1115]

Probably a much more sinister reason for this tunnel as well as tunnels under Central Park

[@kallias.3503]

Is where they hide the kids....? God knows what is hidden down there i hope they rot in hell

[@liberationwasalie2982]

human trafficking tunnel

[@mh7067]

@@kallias.3503 do you people think before you speak?

[@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588]

@@mh7067 they just love their conspiracy theories don’t they. It makes their boring lives a lot more interesting.

[@leeludallas]

@@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 yeah bc human trafficking is so fake ....dumbarses.

[@eingang44]

So why isn't this so-called "historic" rail car donated to a railroad museum somewhere? Kind of a shame that it is allowed to deteriorate like this.

[@aelitadelarobia]

It was, that's just a baggage car sitting there,

[@LongIslandCityLayout]

The blue baggage car has been moved the the Danbury Railroad Museum.

[@Ham549]

It was brought to a railroad museum who tells the real story about how it's just a plain baggage car that was then used to haul materials on a maintenance train.

[@kevingarnett2000]

The major press colluding to keep his disability a secret was both noble and disturbing

[@KatWoodland]

nothing much has changed in regards to the press except for the adjective “noble”

[@winstonzeb2842]

Doing it to this day with Biden 😂

[@LongIslandCityLayout]

2:04 No doubt that's a freight elevator, but that's way too narrow for a car to fit through.

[@EagleOne76]

So, the moral of the story is that the federal government wasted a ton of money back then as well. That's somehow not a surprise.

[@aita2565]

dd1781 It's a private railway built for the hotel, not just presidents. Celebrities use it too, and it's also used for exhibitions and fashion shows.

[@Ryan-on5on]

A lot of historical misinformation and simplification to be found in this piece. Track 61, in fact, was not built expressly to be used by the special train of visiting U.S. Presidents, but did find such use at least once during FDR's Presidency, and this both for wartime security reasons and to conceal Roosevelt's debilitating disability from the NY press. There is no proof, though, that this wayside track - and the rail car sitting on it - were ever designated by the NY Central, Waldorf Astoria, or Secret Service for express use by VIPs such as the POTUS. As with so many things, time and rumor have made a legend out of something quite unextraordinary!

[@nyctenthusiast3507]

And I belive that track is gonna be rebuilt for the LIRR right?

[@ROTE]

Maybe

[@mh7067]

Wrong, lirr is much further down than these tracks

[@orangecayman520]

my great,great,great grandpa was a architect on grand central terminal

[@definitely_notme4112]

The car at track 61 is not FDR’s train car. it is an old maintenance car.

[@sebastianaguinaldo2243]

It's a laboratory train car where all annoying Scooby-Doo toilets was created to attack the fruit city

[@REXXSEVEN]

how the fuck is it a secret if you are showing it to us?

[@toranggurning1346]

They not show the entrance

[@timcoyle50]

That car needs to be restored.

[@nytom4info]

It's all shut down..we explored all the tunnels.. including the loop.. ask someone..

[@The_Ahamd_072]

Where is the third level of the grand central station. 👁👁

[@ShanerTheGrey]

The tunnel WAS NOT BUILT FOR FDR

[@Msajjadhussain-mg6cy]

Why Couldn't they used a Wheelchair?

[@jasminejohnston6393]

Waterfront Station in Vancouver has nothing on Grand Central. But Waterfront Station is known for a few things. It’s home to Canada’s first Starbucks, and some people believe it’s haunted!

[@melloangelwolf8611]

That rail car should be in a museum

[@hatem8909]

it is

[@MikeJ2023]

@@hatem8909it’s not it’s a restricted area I go through GCT all the time trying to find the area gets you a federal charge.

[@jayvoke188]

Why would FDR want a elevator to let him off at the Waldorf Astoria ballroom?................. So he could dance the night away!

[@noobforpresident2024]

So, you're telling me the location of a Train Track that people since FDR died wanted to keep a secret?

[@EscapingWife2020]

Wow

[@dmaster225]

Dayum. So much secrecy and opulence. It sounds like something Kim Jung Un would have.

[@krazyjake247]

I think I was your 45,000 subscriber lol yay

[@ShadyJ911]

+krazyjake247 Is there something magical about the number 45,000? Whooptedo.

[@ShadyJ911]

+krazyjake247 Is there something magical about the number 45,000? Whooptedo.

[@sends2aaron]

Is there something magical about the number 45,000? Whooptedo.

[@buckzz___]

@@ShadyJ911 hes just saying, sheeesh.

[@hanxzo_]

Can anybody go there like regular people ?

[@vinny57ish]

watching this and a few other youtube video posts of my hometown subway system...just brought a funny memory back...it's of a song about a man ,I believe on the Boston subway that ...well he got on the train but never got off the train...I know it's an old tune but just the thought of a working blue collar construction worker..getting on a subway train and never getting off the train. ..hope he had a big enough lunch box to eat on the train for a while...I have been on the subways in both my hometown Bronx New York city and on the Boston T subway system. .

[@wannaspritecranberry2052]

Faker

[@vinny57ish]

LOL.......

[@julianrobin9390]

It's a Boston folk song, I believe just called "M.T.A.". As for the lunch, in the song his wife would toss sandwiches into the window of the car, which as a kid always made me wonder why she didn't just toss him a nickel.

[@michaelspraggins5419]

@@julianrobin9390 well, if she tossed him a nickle, there would be no need for the song or this conversation. Like, you've seen movies and wondered, "Well, why didn't he/she/they do this to avoid the problem?"....because then, there'd be no movie. It's just for entertainment purposes.

[@LenuiseAgazirQuilatonVlogs]

Tour of grand central

[@attommas]

Track 61

[@Cartbs229]

I’m going to become the president just so I can know where this is

[@psychicfriendfreadbear6025]

it's not there anymore

[@Agenteyes007]

psychic friend freadbear nope it's still there.

[@gtfoshea]

The video showed us absolutely---NOTHING--and P GOAT is right--next time let him do the film.

[@richardwebster1192]

Cool

[@kupferbergbahn7952]

Can somebody PLEASE restore that Heavyweight car?

[@aidensmith9154]

More than likely the wont

[@aidensmith9154]

There is already one of fdr cars restored for amtrak

[@Ham549]

There is one at Steamtown.

[@hatem8909]

it is at the Danbury railroad museum in Connecticut

[@maskent-ol3jy]

wow

[@randallmartin2549]

Get real dude.

[@tri-lakesozarkrailroad6360]

is their a plan for the car?

[@Ham549]

tri-lakes & Ozark Railroad no because this is a bunch of bull shit. It is a New York Central baggage car, they have the exact same kind at Steamtown and IRM.

[@alexsmith8765]

Ham549 how do you know it is not a new haven baggage car?

[@rehmsmeyer]

Cool info, but get this guy a mic please.

[@CowSaysMooMoo]

So he can puncture our eardrums??

[@danbrit9848]

think of this next time you thing biden is of full health...

[@jacobgarrity9055]

Andrew Garfield brought here back since 2014

[@alexbrown1332]

Buzz feed, anyone?

[@Dandan-vf9kr]

yup

[@flushingrailfanner6391]

Okay, yeah.....

[@TI4438]

Cool bid but lots of BS.

[@johnsmythe2050]

wasn't this in spiderman?

[@roydyncassidy4370]

It was in spider-man

[@roydyncassidy4370]

@@gptm1 nah it defo was in spider-man

[@chronicillz1879]

when was this in spiderman?

[@parkerwilliams7652]

Dang lying Yankees

[@darkreign8081]

I want to see the real black budget shit, not this play play presidential nonsense.

[@appleintosh]

DarkReign Get on out to Area 51 and Edwards AFB. Tell me what you see.