Wantagh
Emery map Wantagh MP25-26 8/1958
Wantagh Station - View NE c.1900 Archive: Dave Keller
Wantagh Station at Wantagh Historical Society 2000
Photo: Bob Anderson
WANTAGH:
S. SIDE R. R. SVC. BEGAN: 10/28/1867.
DEPOT BUILT: 1875 AS “RIDGEWOOD” (8-year gap??) RENAMED
“WANTAGH”: ? CLOSED AND MOVED: 1966 WITH GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION,
RESTORED AS MUSEUM: 1982 (Per
Wantagh Museum website)
TEMPORARY STATION ACCOUNT GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION
IN SVC: 8/24/66. OUT OF SVC:
10/22/68 AND RAZED.
ELEVATED STRUCTURE IN SVC: 10/22/68
Wantagh Station - View E c.1900 Archive: Dave Keller
Wantagh Station View NE c.1920 Archive: Dave Keller
Wantagh Station - View E c.1900 Archive: Dave Keller
Wantagh Station view NW summer 1960 Photo: Art Huneke
Wantagh - Railroad Ave - View E c.1961
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Wantagh Station - view NE 11/12/63
Wm. Lichtenstern photo, Dave Keller archive
Wantagh Station View E 9/20/1965 Photo/Archive: Brad Phillips
Wantagh Freight House View E 9/20/1965
Photo/Archive: Brad Phillips
Wantagh Station View SE 9/20/1965 Photo/Archive: Brad Phillips
Wantagh Station View E 1/1966 Photo/Archive: Brad Phillips
Wantagh temporary track - view W Archive: Dave Keller
Wantagh Station and temporary tracks. View E
Archive: Dave Keller
Wantagh Temporary Station on 1st Day of Service View E
8/24/1966 Photo/Archive: Brad Phillips
Wantagh Elimination Gold Spike Ceremony View E
8/24/1966 Photo/Archive: Brad Phillips
Wantagh Station elimination view W - Archive: Dave Keller
Wantagh Station move 1966 Photo/Archive: Dave Keller
Wantagh - LIRR Map Page 30 6/1966
Wantagh Station Grade Elimination View W-1968
Photos: Jim Hiltonsmith -Wantagh Railroad Elevation Project collection,
Wantagh Preservation Society
Dismantling the temporary shoo-fly tracks through Wantagh. The temporary
station was to the east of Beech Street while the new, and original,
stations were to the west of Beech and extending to Wantagh Avenue. Jeff
Erlitz
Looking east from the pedestrian overpass. This may be the only known photograph of automatic block (and Section Break) signal S262 on Track 2 up on the signal bridge. The signal bridges were included as part of the grade separation project as a provision for a future Wantagh Interlocking. Track 1 was placed in service on the elevation on 10/22/1968 and Track 2 followed on 11/1. The interlocking was placed in service 6/7/1971 and S262 was converted to home signal 6 (later renumbered 2E).
Wantagh Grader Crossing Elimination 1966 Archive: Dave Keller
Goodfellow letter - Wantagh Station preservation 4/23/1965
Wantagh Station move - 9/01/2016 Archive: Joshua Soren
This is a copy of the letter to Margaret Aiken, from Thomas Goodfellow, President of The Long Island Rail Road, April 23, 1965, in response to her request to save the Wantagh Rail Road station from demolition. Margaret Aiken was a resident of Wantagh, New York who was one of the founders of the Wantagh Preservation Society. Archive: Joshua Soren
The Wantagh Station, Wantagh, New York. On September 23, 1966, (56 years ago), the former station was removed from its foundation on Railroad Avenue and secured onto the building movers truck for the slow ride on Wantagh Avenue to its current location opposite Emeric Avenue. The building serves as the Wantagh Historical Museum, operated by the Wantagh Preservation Society. Joshua Soren
Wantagh Depot after move to the Wantagh Museum
Photo/Archive: Brad Phillips
Note: Moved 9/22/1966, per Bob Meagher, Wantagh Preservation Society
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Diamond Crossing Sign-Wantagh Station Museum 12/04/07 Photo/Archive: Al Castelli
Wantagh Museum "JAMAICA" parlor car #2000
3/15/2014 - Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz
Wantagh Museum 10/05/2015
Wantagh Museum - 50th Anniversary Celebration Sign 9/24/2016
Wantagh Museum "JAMAICA" parlor car
10/12/2018 Photo/Archive: John Nasta