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 Long Island City passenger and express terminal as viewed west from the old overpass. Passenger depot at the center and right, express depot at the center and left. Note the steel B40 baggage/express cars to the left of center and at the far left. Archive: Dave Keller |
 As a baggage/express car, the class B40 cars were not designed as RPO (Railway Post Office) cars.
As a point of curiosity, the window at the right of this image has a leftover sticker for the 1932 presidential candidate Herbert Hoover that someone stuck to the barred window. The bars were a security feature as express cars frequently carried cash remittances from way stations into the main office in Jamaica as well as cash payrolls and cash that was being carried privately. Research: Dave Keller
B40 Express Car with Central Islip State hospital drill engine coupled to it laying up on the Central Islip team track
1933
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.jpg) Crew Shanty Old Express Car west end of Babylon yard 5/17/1952 (Faxon-Keller) |
 MOW Brush Car #498846 siding across E. Williston Station 05/07/1954 Photo: Ed Hermanns Collection: Dave Keller |
 Snow Scraper #495793 work train Holban Yard, Hollis view N 02/06/49 Photo: George Votava Collection: Keller |
 Third rail brush car 498841 (American Car and Foundry, 1916) Holban Yard, 12/25/1936 - William J Rugen collection, Queens Library |
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| B40 #658 "FISHERMAN'S SPECIALS" ICE TRAY CAR | ||
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"These trains
gained popularity early on because of the great idea of being able to go out
all day on a fishing journey. A popular stop was Canoe Place on the
east side of Shinnecock Canal. The Fisherman's Special left
Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan and Jamaica in Queens early in the morning
and, after making the Canoe Place stop, ran express to Montauk where
fishermen would catch their boats and spend the rest of the day
fishing. The LIRR offered a special accommodation on the return trip
by icing the fishermen's catches in large containers in a designated Railway
Express Agency car. The Fisherman's Specials were very popular and ran
into the 1950s when they ceased operation." Info: Dave Keller |
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 B40 Baggage car #658 equipped with ice trays for keeping cold the fish catch. Archive: Art Huneke |
 B40 #658 Fisherman Ice tray equipped interior Archive: Art Huneke MORE INFO: LIRR FISHING |
 B40 #658 Montauk return to Penn Station from fishing excursion c.1930s Photo: Rudolph Hoffman |
 B40 ex #660 Snow Scraper #495791 Archive: Art Huneke Converted 1934-35 |
 B40 ex #664 Snow Scraper #495793 Archive: Art Huneke Converted 1934-35 Renumbered W91 1/1960 Scrapped 10/1967 Info: Dave Keller |
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B40s IN WRECK WEST OF EASTPORT - 1921 |
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 G54sa Camelback #16 wreck west of Eastport 1921 |
It is uncorroborated, but supposedly the engineer of the locomotive was Forrest Jayne. The story goes that he took the curve west of “PT” Cabin a “bit” too fast and the engine rolled over on her side derailing a number of head-end cars. The photos show the engine already righted and re-railed, although the firebox door is gaping wide open, the tender is still derailed and leaning and the wreck crane is working to clear up the mess of the jack-knifed B40 class American Railway Express cars. All photos: James V. Osborne Info/Archive: Dave Keller |
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