East Moriches 

East Moriches: Built: 1897, Agency Closed: 1932 (Robert Emery data), or 1934 (local newspaper article of 9/24/1936).
East Moriches used the call letters "EM" per LIRR CR#4 of 1903(1).
Burned: September 19, 1936. Temporary station opened in surviving freight house (per local newspaper article of 9/24/1936 discussing the fire's destruction.)
2nd smaller, brick depot built: 1936 (Robert Emery data).
Depot closed And discontinued as station stop: 10/6/1958.  Sold to private owner. Depot still standing on site as private residence: 2014.  Research: Dave Keller

 

East Moriches Station view E 1905 - Camelback #2 E51sa (4-4-2) westbound with the evening mail train.   Photo: Joseph Burt		 Station-E. Moriches-View East-1906.JPG (79488 bytes)
East Moriches Station view E 1906
East Moriches Station - 1906 view SE with a
block signal in service.  - eBay

The loco was the second of the two in the 1926 Calverton Pickle Works wreck and was scrapped right afterwards.  The man in the foreground was getting ready to hang the mail bag.  Judging by the elevation and the angle of the photo, I'm thinking the photographer was standing on the mail crane. Research: Dave Keller

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East Moriches Station c.1910 
Archive: Dave Morrison 		Station-East Moriches-c.1925.jpg (54108 bytes)
East Moriches Station c.1925		  
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East Moriches Station Fire of 9/19/1936		 Emery_East-Moriches_MP67-68_5-58.jpg (126166 bytes)
Emery map East Moriches MP67-68 5/1958

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LIRR 1966 track map East Moriches Page 39 zoom level		 Station-East Moriches-View SE-06-20-55 (Faxon-Keller).jpg (132426 bytes)
East Moriches Station view SE 6/20/1955
(Faxon-Keller)

East Moriches Semaphore - Clear Signal - Proceed 1962
Archive: John Scala
East Moriches Semaphore - Approach Signal - Proceed Stop At Next Signal to Receive Orders 1962 Archive: John Scala		  

East Moriches Depot - View NW 4/1970
Photo/Archive: Dave Keller		 Station-East Moriches-FA1 613 and Train WB-View E-05-88 (Keller-Keller).jpg (116178 bytes)
East Moriches Station LIRR FA1 #613 westbound train
View E 05/1988 Photo/Archive: Dave Keller 		east-moriches_viewW_12-07-08_RobertAnderson.jpg (57515 bytes)
Ex-East Moriches Depot, now a private residence as of 2006
View W 2008 Photo: Robert Anderson
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Ex-East Moriches Depot, now a private residence as of 2006
View N 2008 Photo: Robert Anderson
Ex-East Moriches Depot, now a private residence as of 2006
View E - 2023 Google
Note 1:  That does not necessarily have any relation to a block office there at that time.  "EM" could have been used for BOTH ticket office as well as block office, probably handled by the agent there.  It would appear that the 1903 CR4 and the 1905 photo proves that point, as the calls were in effect yet there was no block signal yet in service.  The 1906 image shows a block signal in service.  The signal was apparently gone per the c. 1910 rear view of the postcard in Dave Morrison's collection, however that date is only an approximate date.

Either way, the signal was gone by the time James. V. Osborne photographed the depot c. 1925 and the agency closed in either 1932 or 1934 (see my disclaimer in previous email.) Osborne photographed the LIRR from 1921 when he started working there as an extra block operator until 1930 when he took over as agent at Southampton.  Research: Dave Keller

11/14/2025