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1888 Map from the archives of
SUNY at Stony Brook, courtesy of David Morrison
1888 Hyde Map Turntable
Collection: Stony Brook, NY
Emery Map: W. Babylon
: Great East Neck Road Crossing.
<1906 MP34-35
The CRR of LI crossed the road AND the LIRR tracks at grade on their
trek to the Babylon Town Dock.
Info and collection: Dave Keller
MP36-37 1925
Babylon Track Capacities
MP 54 Cars - c.1950
Emery map MP 34-35 1958
Collection and Info: Dave Keller
Emery map MP 35-36 1958
Collection: Dave Keller
Emery map MP 36-37 1958
Collection: Dave Keller
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Babylon Enginehouse 05-16-1918
Official LIRR valuation photo
Collection: Dave Morrision
Station 1914 view east from south side
platform
1925 BJ Tower almost completed. View
looking west toward depot from Signal bridge. Track at far right
(north side of main) not yet completed. Track spur off to right to
access Heinley Coal Yard. Knickerbocker Ice & Coal at far left.
James V. Osborne photo, Dave Keller archive
REA Freight House 1951
Photo: Joe Hagan
H16-44 #1507 1954
W. J. Edwards photo, Dave Keller archive
RDC1-2 Babylon Tower 1955
Jules P. Krzenski photo, Dave Keller archive
MU meet 1957
Jules P. Krzenski photo, Dave Keller Archive
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1925 First MU electric train arrival view east towards
depot from signal bridge. James V. Osborne photo, Dave Keller archive
1925 First MU electric train arrival view
taken from on top of the electric transmission tower.
Chester Kelting photo, David M. Morrison
collection, Dave Keller archive
1925 First MU electric train project.
Chester Kelting photo, David M.
Morrison collection, Dave Keller archive
1925 BN Cabin (c. 1917 to 1925) located at west
end of
Babylon
station platform, north side. View looking northwest. James V.
Osborne photo, Dave Keller archive
BN cabin, located on the north
side of the west end of the westbound platform of
Babylon
station. In service c. 1917 (Does not appear in the ETT of 1916.
No ETT of 1917 available to check. Does appear in ETT of 1918) and out
of service with opening of BJ tower east of the station sometime after May,
1925. This view is from a negative shot of the first MU train to
arrive at
Babylon
and the town’s pending celebration with thousands of people in attendance.
Chester Kelting photo, David M. Morrison Collection, Dave Keller archive.
FM 2002 Cannonball at Babylon
Jules P. Krzenski photo, Dave Keller archive
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This view is looking southeast
from the north side of the tracks. 1963
Archive: Dave Keller
What we have in the foreground is the old station high-level platforms with
old pedestrian crossover in the background.
The temporary station facilities are
adjacent to this, just south, running right through where the old depot
building was once located.
In the middle-to-right background you will
see platform shelters. You will also see a second, independent,
pedestrian crossover.
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The red platform shelters are the
temporary station at Babylon in 1964. (New, elevated station partially
visible in left background.)
Those shelters on those platforms with
THAT pedestrian crossover are the temporary station facilities with a
temporary ticket office built on the south side of the tracks.
Once the temporary tracks and station/platforms were established and
officially placed into service, the LIRR then began to demolish ALL you see
in the foreground, and the elevation took place on the site of this earlier
track location. The temporary tracks were very close to the main.
Research: Dave Keller, LIRR Historian
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RS1 on eastbound freight, running
against traffic, meeting westbound M1 electric train from yard, passing “
BABYLON
” tower and approaching station –
Babylon
,
NY
– 7/27/71 (note old coal silo at right background)
Archive: Dave Keller |
Babylon 
