UNIFORMS
 


LIRR Conductor c.1895 Archive: John Jett
The hat cap badge “…worn with the black uniform and flat-brimmed cap.
Badges also worn with the Summer-issue white
uniform caps: c. 1890s - c. 1908." Dave Keller
 

Trainman-Conductor at LI City 1897 - LI Express Co. cart at mail baggage car.
(Fullerton-Queensborough Library)
 

LIRR D52a crew c.1905
Fireman Joseph Amott, 3rd from right, Engineer Charles McKeever, 2nd from right. Parlor Car Attendant in gray uniform 3rd from left at Roslyn.
Photo: John Specce
 

Central Islip Station 4-4-0 #.521 eastbound - Crew c.1905 Archive: Art Huneke
 

Trainman PRR style white cap - Vanderbilt Cup Race 10/24/1908
 

LIRR E51sa camelback #3 with train of wooden coaches and crew westbound at Patchogue NY. Standing across from the depot, from left to right: Ed Howell, engineer, Eugene Riordon, fireman, Dan Whaley, head brakeman, Ed Lewis, conductor and William Hallock, rear brakeman - 1912. Note the white summer uniform caps. (Dan V. Whaley collection, Dave Keller archive)
 

LIRR Trainman Jeff Skinner 1919 flat brimmed cap (Skinner-Keller)
 

John A. Robelen - 2nd from right c.1923
Archive: Richard M. Pope
 

John A. Robelen (center) c.1923
Archive: Richard M. Pope

 


MU Babylon 1st Electric Train 1925
Archive: Dave Keller

LIRR G5s #29 Last train and crew to Wading River
10/09/1938 Archive: Dave Morrison

Hempstead MU Train Crew: Hussey, Rosenow, Anderson, Keating c.1938 Archive: Dave Keller

Conductor Ben Purick - Trainman Matthew Robelen Sunnyside, LI City c.1940 (G. Christopher-D. Keller)
 

Port Jefferson Train #635 Crew - 1941
Photo: Robert Emery Archive: SUNY Stony Brook

Left to right:
D. V. Little - Front Trainman
F. B. Kingsbury - Flagman
Frank Gardner - Conductor
RPO Clerk - unidentified
R. H. Smith - Engineer
Fireman - unidentified

 


Conductor Bob Emery (center) discussing business about Train #22, the Thursday “Cannonball” with Brakeman Al Berna at Westhampton station. Willie Wilson of Special Services looks on at left. 7/25/68 
Photo/Archive: Richard Makse


LIRR Special Services Attendant Bill "Jitterbug" Johnson Parlor Car Montauk 8/1968
Photo/Archive: Richard Makse
 

Trainman Frank Gallagher working the double decker in the 1950's. LI Railroader Archive: Mike Boland

LIRR C420 #209 eastbound at Islip - Conductor giving the signal to start up - Summer 1975
Photo/Archive: Brandon Kulik

LIRR Conductor Jim R. Brown, Sr.
"On the Ground Brown" in an M1 1982+