MONTAUK
BRANCH 
Merrick
view east of Meadowbrook Parkway, June 1975. The
replacement of the temporary tracks and cutting in the new elevated
tracks. The temporary tracks were laid in June 1969 and removal began in
June 1975. The program languished a few years due to lack of state
funding, with the bulk of the elevation work occurring 1973-1975.
Photo: William J. Madden Info/Archive: Capt. William Gilligan, US Navy
Date
Rockville
Centre 1949 Photo: Art Huneke
H10s Freight Eastbound past freight house View from PORT Tower c.1940
Archive: Dave Keller+
Freeport MU eastbound view from PORT Tower past the same location (Henry St. crossing) in 1959 during the grade elimination. Old warehouses remains, the freight house is gone. Info/Archive: Dave Keller+
Freeport Temporary Station
Archive:
Dave Keller+
Freeport
MU Train passing Elimination Project
Archive: Dave Keller+
June
1972 Photo: Tim Darnell
1973
Photo: Tim Darnell
June
1975 view East Photo: William J. Madden
Archive: Capt. William Gilligan, US Navy
LIRR
#1520 RS2 09/17/1974
Photo: Tim Darnell
View east 11/11/1974 Photo: William J. Madden
Archive: Capt. William Gilligan, US Navy
View east approaching Old Mill Rd 06-1975
Photo: William J. Madden
Archive: Capt. William Gilligan, US Navy
Wantagh
MU train passing Elimination Project
Archive: Dave Keller+
Seaford Elimination Elevation West
Archive: Dave Keller+
Seaford Temp Station and Elimination Elevation East Archive: Dave Keller+
Massapequa
Photo:
Art Huneke
Massapequa Park depot and temp Ticket Office
Archive: Dave Keller+
Massapequa
Park July 1979 view west towards Park Blvd Photo: Capt. William
Gilligan, US Navy
Amityville
MU train West under old Trolley Trestle 1963 Photo: Art Huneke
Copiague
view west Archive: Dave Keller+
Lindenhurst
MU Temp Platforms West Archive: Dave Keller+
Babylon
view East Photo: Frank Pfuhler
Abandoned freight sidings: Some that come to mind, west to east.
1)
West
of St-Albans are remains of former freight sidings that used to
trail eastbound into Montauk 2.
2) Coal siding for the Vet Hospital at St. Albans
3) Siding off MTK1 West of former Springfield Gardens (Recently uncovered by the tree chopping campaign)
4) Siding off MTK2 East of former Springfield Gardens (Recently uncovered by the tree chopping campaign)
5) Valley Lead which had 2 team tracks off it. (Used for MOW today)
6) Valley Coal co via the viaduct on the West Hempstead branch at Valley.
7) Siding West of RVC on MTK2 to the REA yard (Mavis Tire today)
8) Siding West of RVC on MTK1 to the LILCO substation site, and former
Coal Co. (Hot Skates today)
9) Siding off MTK1 West of Freeport into what looks like a Verizon property today.
10) Freeport Team Yard. (Used for MOW today)
11) Siding off MTK1 west of Massapequa. (goes into a municipal sand dome today)
12) Hendrickson Siding just east of Babylon. (Might have been the remains of a
shoo-fly just used as a
MOW siding?)
Author: Joseph Vila
MAINLINE
Date
Jamaica
Jamaica
Station at grade near Union Hall Street Archive: Dave Keller+
Union Hall St. was created as a substitute station stop to appease the riders who lived in the location of the OLD Jamaica station when it was at grade. It was near Union Hall Street. When the station was moved further west, the people felt they were being inconvenienced by having to trek all the way west to Jamaica so the LIRR gave them Union Hall St. station.
After the grade elimination project was finished at Jamaica, the tracks leading up to that new elimination from east of the station, passing right through the former Jamaica station site were depressed BELOW grade level and the tracks were crossed by a combination of grade crossings as well as iron bridges.
Turntable at Washington St. near Union Hall Street
Archive: Dave Keller+
Union Hall
St. station was newly-created and opened in 1913, and was later elevated
in 1929 as a result of the Jamaica East project, which stretched all the
way from east of Jamaica station up to and including Hillside station.
My father, an electrician for the LIRR at the time, actually wired the
elevated Union Hall St. station for lights.
Union Hall Street Station 12/161929
Archive: Dave Keller+
Hicksville
Lifting bridge girder Photo: Ed Bady
View
east to Broadway Photo: Ed Bady
"Taking down the gates" Photo: Ed Bady
ATLANTIC BRANCH