Railroad Schedule Board Crushed By Merciless Digital Tide

One year after the state signed its death warrant, the flapping schedule board at New Haven’s Union Station is slated to depart. On track to replace it: The voice of Delta Airlines.

Kevin Nursick, spokesman for the Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT), said Wednesday that the sign with the signature sound will be taken down in the spring and put out to pasture at the Danbury Rail Museum.

The old-style arrivals-and-departures board, made by Italy’s Solari company, will be removed to make way for a couple of high-tech display panels. It’s part of a set of station improvements currently underway, including work on the distinctive silver pedestrian tubes to the train platforms. 

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