Pinelawn - Republic Station
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Ticket - Pinelawn to Farmingdale on-way excursion return c.1901+ Archive: Brad Phillips Note: Ticket signed by Howard Mapes Smith (served the LIRR from 1848 - 1919+?) and was appointed LIRR Traffic Manager 4/2/1888 and later to General Passenger Agent on 4/12/1901. |
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Ticket - Woodside to Republic General Pass. Agt. (GPA): C.G. Pennington 9/1943+ Archive: Brad Phillips |
Ticket - Pinelawn to NY Penn Station 1953+ Archive: Brad Phillips |
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PINELAWN:
1ST DEPOT OPENED: c. 1895-1897 AS “MELVILLE” ON N.W. SIDE OF WELLWOOD
AVENUE. LISTED ON TIMETABLES AS FLAG STOP. THEN AS “PINELAWN
(MELVILLE)” IN TIMETABLE OF JUNE, 1898. LISTED AS “PINELAWN” IN
TIMETABLE OF 1899. |
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The old depot and admin building taken c. 1908. Archive: Dave Keller
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Roundtrip Ticket Pinelawn to LI City, 34th Street Ferry Archive: Brad Phillips Howard Mapes Smith (1848-1919+?) was appointed LIRR Traffic Manager 4/2/1888 and later to GPA on 4/12/1901 It’s a sample (no serial number), for a single organization (Greenlawn Cemetery Assn.), and an excursion ticket good on only one day, probably for Decoration Day (now Memorial Day). Interesting note: The return ticket had to be validated by the agent at Pinelawn! Info: Brad Phillips |
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PINELAWN CEMETERY: BUILT AT THE THEN
AMAZING COST OF $135,000, BUILDING CONSISTING OF GENERAL OFFICES, MORTUARY
CHAPEL AND LIRR TICKET OFFICE OPENED: 8/30/1904. FANCY TICKET OFFICE LOCATED IN THE MAIN LOBBY. IT WAS SAID THE TICKET OFFICE WAS NEVER PUT IN SVC. BUILDING REMAINED IN SERVICE FOR CEMETERY BUSINESS UNTIL IT WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE ON 4/04/1928 (Per NY State Supreme Court document). STONE WALLS STILL STANDING AS LATE AS 12/27/1939 (Photo provenance). ARCHED PORTICO AT STATION PLATFORM AND COVERED WALKWAY EXTENDING BACK TO WHERE BLDG. ONCE STOOD STILL STANDING AS LATE AS 1960 (Photo provenance). ARCHED PORTICO AND CONCRETE STATION PLATFORM STILL STANDING UNTIL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT BEGAN IN 1985 (Photo provenance). 1928 Newspaper Article Research: Dave Keller |
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The 1904 Pinelawn Cemetery station/administration bldg. and chapel after the April, 1928 devastating fire. View SE. Archive: Dave Keller The covered portico at the LIRR station platform is visible at the far right. The portico remained standing until the electrification project of 1985 when it was removed along with the original station platform. Research: Dave Keller |
Pinelawn Station Cemetery portico along with the original platform as it looked in 1968. (Dave Keller photo and archive) |
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PW CABIN: WEST OF PINELAWN (END OF DOUBLE
TRACK) (NORTH SIDE OF TRACKS. IN SERVICE: 8/1918. APPEARS IN ETT #88 |
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Switch tender's Cabin - PW Call Letters looking east west of Pinelawn - 1970 (Dave Keller photo and archive) |
Possible temporary "PW" block station or switch tender's cabin looking NE - 8/1986 (Jay Bendersky photo and archive) |
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The structure above left appears to be a typical
switch tender's shanty on the site of the former block office cabin at "PW"
interlocking. Possibly a switch tender threw the manual switch to access
both the 98-car capacity Pinelawn siding, the wye and team tracks north of
the tracks and east of New Highway. Note the chimney, indicating a stove to
keep the manned cabin warm inside as well as the large propane tank at the
left to fuel it. It probably housed the "T" box for freight crews to report
their train "in the clear" for meets with passenger trains. A temporary
block station WAS established during the 1986-87 electrification project to
Ronkonkoma, and while this shanty (above left) was not it, (I photographed
it in 1970), the newer shanty (above right) has replaced the earlier
structure and may very well have been the temporary block station. Or . . .
it may have simply been a replacement switch tender's cabin. Note: These photos
are NOT of the same structure and the "PW" call letters on the signpost are
in different locations. Research: Dave Keller |
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LIRR Farmingdale map 1966 Page 63 |
LIRR Farmingdale map 1986 Page 49 Archive: Jeff Erlitz |
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Pinelawn Station view E from Wellwood Ave. 12/08/17 Photo: Dave Morrison |
Pinelawn Station view SW 8/10/2016 Photo: Edward Hand |
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Republic Station Shelter view E 1970 - signal distant in view "PW" block signal and the end of double track. Info/Photo: Dave Keller |
Republic Station Shelter view E at Route 110 c.1970+ Photo: Art Huneke |
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This one was taken of a westbound flying through Republic Station in June of 1985. The station will be soon closed with the coming Main Line electrification to Ronkonkoma project. Hopefully, there will be a station here again sometime soon. Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersky |
Pinelawn Station view W from Wellwood Ave. 12/08/2017 Photo: Dave Morrison |
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Republic Station stairway - Route 110 12/09/2017 |
Republic Station View W - Route 110 12/09/2017 |
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Republic Station View E - Route 110 12/09/2017 |
Republic Station View S - Route 110 12/09/2017 |
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Pinelawn Wye Yard - New Highway | |||
PNC -GP9 #1701 Pinelawn, New Hwy Yard 6/1974 Photo: Ellis Simon |
Pinelawn Wye - Bogies view NE 7/1989 Photo: Chuck Yungkurt |
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Pinelawn Wye LIRR MP15 #155 - View SE 1995 Photo/Archive: Steven Lynch |
Pinelawn Wye Bogie crane LIRR hack view SE 8/1995 Photo: John Fusto MORE LIRR Bogies |
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C420 #226 at Pinelawn 6/1986 Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersky |
LIRR #150 & #155 wait at Republic Yard/Pinelawn in East Farmingdale for their next crew, the RF-64, to go on duty and start switching. August, 1987 Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersky |
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C420 #223 at Pinelawn 1987 Photo/Archive: Dan Marra |