Ronkonkoma 

Electrification Project Completed Archive 12/1987

 G5s LIRR #39 Tender taking on water Ronkonkoma 06/05/1955 
Photographer unidentified, Dave Keller+ archive

Ronkonkoma Milepost 49-50
Emery map 10-57

Ronkonkoma Milepost 48-49 
Emery map 10-57

FA1-611-C420-208-PushPull-Ronkonkoma-10-72
Photo: Dave Keller

View Wye North 
Photo: Steve Lynch

View Wye South
Photo: Steve Lynch

L203 Photo: Steve Hoskins c. 1960's
P-GT1_Turbine  
Photo: Steve Hoskins c. 1960's

View Wye NE BAR  #60, #72  1998
Photo: Paul Kennedy

View Wye NE Precision  #1702
1998 Photo: Paul Kennedy

 
L1555  Photo: Steve Hoskins c. 1960's

1940 T. Sommer photo


1970 Dave Keller photo


1987 Dave Keller photo

Tower KO 1940
Collection: Dave Keller


KO Storage Seed 1972
Photo: Dave Keller

Photos of the newly opened electric yard at Ronkonkoma – filled with diesel-hauled equipment!  A sight you’ll never see again.

Views are looking west in December, 1987. I don’t have an actual date indicated, however the 3rd rail was activated on, I believe, Dec. 17th and I probably shot these the same day as I shot the electrified activation warning sign.  (Photos shot through the chain-link fence.)
Photos/Archive/Info: Dave Keller

George Ayling, the agent at CI, worked a rotation schedule in the late 1940s and part of that rotation was a day or two a week at Ronkonkoma .  He said he was warned by the regular agent to beware of Gould, because Gould was a deadbeat who never paid his bills and was constantly threatened by the LIRR.  He saw a relief agent on duty and would bluster into the depot, figuring the new guy didn’t know of him and DEMAND that his loads of feed be released to him.  Ayling told him he’d be more than happy to release his loads to him ONCE HE PAID HIS MONEY OWED TO THE RAILROAD . . . whereupon he’d bluster some more and storm out.  He’d come back later with money to pay the bill, blustering some more, and his feed would be released to him.      Story told  to Dave Keller, no claim as to accuracy of this story.

His feed business was way up Hawkins Road north of the village of Ronkonkoma , almost on the borderline of Ronkonkoma and Lake Grove.  Info: Dave Keller