{"id":3431,"date":"2008-05-11T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T18:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2008-05-11T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T18:20:13","slug":"amtrak_julie_meet_penn_station_sheila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/amtrak_julie_meet_penn_station_sheila.html","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak Julie, Meet Penn Station Sheila"},"content":{"rendered":"

She doesn’t have as a high a profile as Amtrak Julie — that media suckup<\/a> — but she’s every bit as important, and probably more so<\/a>, since people actually use Penn Station:<\/p>\n

The voice that launched a thousand trips — on Thursday alone — was about to launch another.<\/p>\n

Sheila Herriott, sitting in a dimly lighted control room with a microphone in her hand and hundreds of commuters at her beck and call, spoke in a throaty, cabaret-style voice that sent them scurrying toward various tracks throughout Pennsylvania Station: “This will be the final call on Amtrak’s Train 97, the Silver Meteor, en route to Miami departing at 3:15 p.m., making station stops at Alexandria, Richmond, Petersburg . . . . This will be the final call on the Silver Meteor to Miami departing at 3:15 p.m. All aboard.”<\/p>\n

Basking in the glow of her computer screen, Ms. Herriott rolled her chair away from her desk and looked up at a half-dozen video monitors to see her audience chugging for their trains.<\/p>\n

“Those people really depend on me,” she said. “They don’t know me personally, but over the years, they have certainly come to know my voice.”<\/p>\n

For the past quarter-century, millions who have passed through Penn Station have indeed relied on Ms. Herriott for arrival and departure information regarding Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Ms. Herriott, who began making track announcements in 1983, said she felt “every bit a part of the history and tradition of Penn Station.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She doesn’t have as a high a profile as Amtrak Julie — that media suckup — but she’s every bit as important, and probably more so, since people actually use Penn Station: The voice that launched a thousand trips — on Thursday alone — was about to launch another. Sheila Herriott, sitting in a dimly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}