LIRR FREIGHT STATIONS & PRIVATE SIDINGS 1966

             Table of Contents: LIRR 1966 Sidings

Page 1	Location #	Long Island City	Car Capacity   	Loads
	1		National Concrete Co.			cement, aggregates
	2		Englo paint Corp.			paint	
	3		Crown Oil Chem Co.			chemicals, products	
	4		Anheuser Busch Corp			beer
	5		Stein Hall				Steinway pianos	
	6		Olin Matheson				chemicals	
	7		Team Tracks (5) 	

	8		C.J. Slicken Co.	
	9		Sterenberger Esbitco	
	10		Bickfords, Inc.	
	11		Peter F. Mallon	 

Page 2		Long Island City	

	12		American Steel Wool  steel wool	
	12a		Brenner Paper Corp.			paper goods	
	13a		West Chemical Products			cleaning chemicals
	13b		West Chemical Shipping Products

West Chemical made CN disinfectant cleaner (Motto: "You can't spell clean without CN"). CN was an iodine-containing product sort of like Betadine lotion, but it was made with industrial-grade ingredients instead of pharmaceutical-grade. As a result it smelled of iodine with a strong overtone of dead fish. Stink track, indeed!   Albert Waltien

LI City "Stink Track"  West Chemical 4 dome tank car GATX 3040 
1/08/1974 Photo: Richard F. Makse

West Chemical 3 dome tank car GATX 70487 
1/1972 Photo: Frank Szcahacz

	14		Westinghouse Corp.			electrical equipment
	15		Astoria Lumber
	16		National Casket				caskets
	17a		Louis Sherry				wine
	17		KB Offset
	18		Speed Queen				appliances
	19a		Roto Broil
	19b		Extrin Foods				grocery products
	20		Seggerman Slocum Co.
	21		Kohler Bldg. (NY Assn for the Blind)
	22		The Assn for the Blind (Lighthouse Bldg.)
	23		Karpin Building

Page 3		Long Island City	

	1		P.O. Powerhouse		3
	2		Republic Steel		8	steel products
	3		Perkins Trucking	 
	3		General Electric	7	electrical equipment
	4		Ronzoni		        7	pasta manufacturer
			 “Ronzoni, sono Buoni”
	5		S.C. Johnson		3	cleaning products

Page 4		Long Island City - Degnon Terminal	 

Degnon lead 03/26/74 Photo: Richard F. Makse

	1		Empire Carpet	 
	2		Peel Richards	 
	2a		Moldtronics	 
	3		Waldes Kohlinoor	 
	4		Ross Togs	 
	5		A.A. Cohen	
	5a		Formulite Paper Corp.	
	6		Executone

Looking south across Yard A are the layup track, cripple tracks along with the car repair storehouse. The Sunshine Biscuit bakery building stands in the background than occupied by Executone; maker of  business telephone systems. c. 1980 Photo: Steve Lynch

	7		Staley Elevator
	8		Conran Supply
	9		Best Wholesale
	9a		Masbrook Wholesale
	9b		Saxon Paper
	10		Principe Danna
	11		Sunshine Biscuit (Garage)
	12		Sunshine Biscuit (Factory)
	13		Bell River Corp.
	14		American Chicle Corp.
	15		Equitable Paper Corp.
	16		Wheeling Corrugated
	17		Gimbel Bros.
	18		R.H. Macy
	19		Simons
	20		Concrete Steel
	21		Phillip A. Hunt	
	21a		Saxon Paper	
	22		Standard Wine & Liquor	
	23		Harrison Building	
	24		J.H. Rhodes	
	25		Hunters Point Steel	
	26		Standard Folding Box Company	
	27		United Parcel 	
	28		Star Liquor	
	29		Viking Criterion Paper	

Page 5		Long Island City - Meurer's Siding 
It was named after the Meurer Steel Barrel Company.	

Meurer Steel Barrel Co. Letterhead 3/24/1925

	1		Bloomingdales		4
	2		Able Steel Equipment	1
	3		R. H. Donnelly		3
	3a		Dublin Distributors	1
	4		Pure Corp.		1
	8		Partition Service	1
	10		Conway Import		3
			Conway Oil 06/14/74 Photo: Richard F. Makse

	11		Metropolitan Ref	1
	11b		Smickle Co.		1
	12		Eugene J. Brandt	3
	14		J.J. Newberry		1
	16		Berhard Wholesale	2
	17		Penn Crest Oil		1
			Penn Crest Oil 06/14/74 Photo: Richard F. Makse
 
	19		Pellman Wood		1
	19b		Central Smelting	1
	20		Bonded Paper-Gay Trking	1
	21		Styro Sales		1
	22		Muller Paper		1
	23		Bosby Metals		1
	24		City Service Studio	1
	26		Grnp Fire Brick		1
	27		Amer Library		4
			American Home Center	
	29		Irving Sub Grating	2
	30		Peerless Oil & Chemical	4
	31		Lindemeyer & Schlosser	4
	33		Case Paper		4
	34		Montauk Steel		2
	35		Gotham Builders Supplies2	

Page 6		Long Island City - Kearney Siding	

	1		Texaco			3
	2		American Calmal Corp	2
	3		Horowitz & Margaretem	3
	4		Owen's Ill Glass 
			Paper Products Div	
				a. 8
				b. 2
				c. 2
	5		Detecto Scale		2
	6		Radio TNG Lab		6
	7		NY Envelope		6
	8		Warren Connelly Co	2
	9		Thypin Steel	
				a. 2
				b. 2
	10		Hiram Walker Co		3
	11		Holeston Bros		6
	13		Metal Purchasing	3
	14		Bloch & Guggenheimer	4
	15		Frok & Sechel		2

Page 7		Laurel Hill - Bliss		

	1		Carbona	1
	2		Stoll Metal		1
	3		Centre Lumber		2
	5		Van Iderstine	a. 6
					b. 6
					c. 9

LIRR Triple header Bliss VanIderstine 1-30-71 Photo: Richard F. Makse rfm@twinney.com

VanIderstine's rendering plant in LIC was living on borrowed time in this scene of a triple header, lead by 1554,1557 and a third RS-3, passing by the plant at Greenpoint Ave. In the 60's and 70's, traffic through BLISS was sufficient to justify an operator around the clock (with two tricks on the weekends). Quite a piece of railroad back then. Both secondary tracks to LIC were still in service; passenger trains still ran to LIC; and the Navy Yard lead, Maspeth Yard and Nichols siding had plenty of business to make it serious business to keep local switchers out of the way of Yard A haulers.

	6		Triplex Oil 		4
	7		Marilyn Warehouse	3
	8		Peerless Oil & Chemical	8
	9		Jacobson & Son		1
	10		Shaw Walker Co.		1

LIRR Eng 208 light Penny Bridge NY 5/74

It's about 10:30 AM on May 2, 1974 and Eng 208 extras back to Morris Park for midday servicing after bringing a morning train into Long Island City. Penny Bridge was one of the last extant pure PRR standard shelters and this classic design was the architectural inspiration for the first modern era shelters that started appearing along the South Shore in the 90's. Info/Photo: Richard F. Makse

	11		General Refractories	1
	12		Gotham Builders Supply	2
	13		General Chemical 	4
	14		Phelps Dodge	a. 8
					b. 8
					c. 9
	15		Kenrich Hollaway	d. 8
			North American Wine 
			Atlas Import 	4
	16		Greenport Dog Food	2
			H. Block	a. 4

Page 8		Maspeth	

	Newton Creek Photo: Bernard Ente
LIRR #1519,1520 passing St. Saviour, Maspeth 04/04/65	St. Saviour's Church was on the corner of Rust St. & 57th Drive. The grade crossing in the picture is Maspeth Avenue. As I understand, the church was dismantled and from the view on bing.com, the property has been leveled. The building immediately on top of the crossing watchman's shed is the old Maurice mansion. The Clinton Diner is still there and always had good food. It had to with the traffic at that intersection and the busy industry around there. While it got some movie fame in later years, it still had a reputation for good food. Info/Photo: Richard F. Makse
LIRR 554 Flushing Ave Mt. Olivet  Maspeth 07-67 Photo: Richard F. Makse	It's 5:35 PM on 7/19/67 and RS-3 1557 makes light work out of its six car consist (including the heavyweight private club car Locust Valley on the head end. Flushing Avenue, later rebuilt as an undergrade crossing, once featured an interlocking tower (Olivet) to control the former trolley crossing. This is as mountain railroading as it gets on the LIRR, with a reasonably tough two-mile long 1.8 percent grade, the LIRR's only helper district during the days of steam. Olivet grade was enough to rate "G" plates on the eastbound position light automatic block signals. Alas, LIRR freights during the 70's rarely had the length or the tonnage to pass these signals on a Rule 291. It still was a great piece of railroad.

	1		Delmonico Int.		4
	2		Continental Can Co  8/21/1970  Photo: Richard F. Makse 
				a. 4
				b. 4
				c. 3
				d. 5
	3		Bulkley Dunton LL	2
	4		Austin Nichols		2
	5		Austin Nichols		5 

LIRR Extra 419 Nichols Siding, Maspeth 1974  Photo: Richard F. Makse rfm@twinney.com

May 2, 1974. Mid morning. The Empire State Building just to the right of center and the fabled Kosciusko Bridge above. You're at the private grade crossing into the Phelps Dodge copper refinery. Nichols Siding, named after the Nichols Copper Co In the 50's and 60's, you could go to Nichols Siding at virtually any time and find a train in motion. The lead to Phelps-Dodge is the track to the left of the train. This landmark industrial site on Newtown Creek, was long the LIRR's best freight customer and was so important as to justify its own freight clerk and station designation ("Laurel Hill"), a job that worked in one of the myriad ancient brick buildings of the complex until the early 60's. Phelps-Dodge, a company with ancient roots in NYC and a supply link to copper mines off the SP and the Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend in far away Arizona, signaled to the world why the ancient and fragrant colonial waterway of Newtown Creek represented the greatness of New York at the inland port of Maspeth.  If you went to Nichols on a weekday afternoon at 4 PM, it was like going to heaven and dying; deadhead passenger, light engines, local and through freights, and scheduled passenger trains.

	6		Maufacturers Corrugated Box Co.	1
	7		Canada Dry		3
	8		Boro Hall Lib		3
	10		Circle Wire And Cable	a.2 (new)
				b. 2 (old)
	11		E.D. Giberson		5
	12		Wm K Koburger		1
	13		Star Corrugated Box	a. 6
						b.4
	14		Plywood Dist		2
	15		Crane and Clark Lbr	4
	16		Janine Paper & Twine	8
	17		Great A&P Tea		10
			Team Track No. 1	11
			Team Track No. 2	11
			Team Track No. 3	12
			Team Track No. 4	12
			Team Track No. 5	14
	18		A. Bleyer Co.		3
	19		Howard Rubber		2
	20		Gerber Construction Co	1
	21		Lumber Service		3
	22		Hicks Costarino		4
	23		Santini Bros		6
	24		NY City Traffic Dept	4
	25		Metromedia Inc		2
	26		Canover Paper		2
	27		E. Greene Paper		2
	28		M&L Whse (Louis Max)	4
				

Page 9		Fresh Pond	

LIRR Train #1831 Eng 1557 Pond Tower 9-12-69	One of the scheduled crew riders to Long Island City, 1557 pulls a ping and an American Flyer bar car (probably a former B&M car) past newly painted Pond Tower. The wires are still hot on the NY Connecting above and a Saxby and Farmer product still controls the switches and signals at this still busy tower. Photo: Richard F. Makse

LIRR #552 Welbilt Maspeth NY 08-06-70

Dropping sand on the second curve west of Fresh Pond, Eng. 204 leads the private club car Oyster Bay, six coaches and a bar up the 1.8 percent Mt. Olivet grade. During steam days, this was a helper district on the LIRR and still features "G" plates on the two position light signals governing the hill. Photo: Richard F. Makse

	1		Welbilt			a. 6
			Garland Division 	b. 4
	2		Merrill Bros	1
	3		Crown Lbr	1
	4		Midland Cont	3
	5		Wm Intner	3
	6		Centre Lumber	2
	7		J Eisenberg Son	4
	8		J Eisenberg Co	2
	9		Vacant	9
	10		Allegheny Tiss	5
	11		Team Track 	13
	12		Juice Corp	9
	

Fremont Tower 6-23-53

Back 50 years ago, Fresh Pond Junction was an important place with freights of the New Haven and LIRR serving the 11 mile long Bay Ridge Branch. 36 year old Fremont Tower in Ridgewood, Queens, literally on the Brooklyn border, handled authorities for both railroads on the branch. Here a passenger extra approaches Fremont northbound, ready to make the right turn to the Montauk Branch.  Photo: Richard F. Makse

Page 10		Bushwick Branch Map 1		

	1		Trio 	2
	1a		A Hemley Supply	2
	2		Miron Lumber	1
	2a		Team Track	* Team track Capacity 48
	3		Team Track	
	4		Team Track	
	5		Team Track	
	6		Muldoon **	** Private Sidings of 
	7		Muldoon **	   Rheingold Breweries
	8		Industrial Traffic	2
	8a		Muldoon **	**
	9		Industrial Traffic	3
	10		Cabin Metal	2
	11		General Tin	2
	12		Time Square Stores	2
	13		Jansa Woodworking	2
	14		Monsieur Henri Wines	2
	15		Farmers Feed (outside)	5
	15a		Louis Ender	1
	16		Farmers Feed (inside)	5
	17		Catholic Relief	3
	18		Mallory Randall	1
	18a		Empty Building	2
	19		Tubeco	
	19a		Albert Pipe	2
	20		Albert Pipe	3
	21		Icing Yard	15
	22		US Paper Bag	1
	23		Lee Story	3
	24		Goldberger Doll	4
	24a		Goldberger Doll	2
	25		H&M Packing	2
	26		Metro Millwork	2
	27		Enquist Chemical	3
	28		NY Telephone	2
	29		Salwin Paper	2
	30		Empty Building	3
	31		Super Pack	1
	32		Norjac Trading	1
	32a		Comet Container	1
	33		Ace Plywood	1
	33a		Hostess Prod	1
	34		Empty Building	2
	34a		Rutgers Metal	1
	35		Max Berman	3
	36		Max Berman	1
	37		L.I. Wholesale	1
	38		Better Brands	3
	39		Stagg Whse	2
	40		Elm Coated	2
	40a		Elm Coated	5
	41		Henning Bros	2
	42		Cabro Whse	4
	42a		Cabro Whse	3
	43		Monarch Lumber	3
	44		J. Aronauer	1
	45		Sampson Bag	1
	46		S. Posner	5
	47		Cross Austin	1
				

Page 11		Bushwick Branch Map 2	

	44a,b,c		Steel & Tube	11
	45		Ehlers	1
	46		Robinson Chemical	1
	47		Brooklyn Steel Warehouse	4
	48		Burdick 	2
	49		Gallo Iron 	2
	50		Gallo Iron 	2
	51		Fidelson Whse	2
	52		Empty Building	3
	53			
	54		Max Berman	4
	55		Max Berman	 
	56		S Siderbaum	2
	57		Hammershlag	1
	58a		Mercury Litho	2
	58b		Carroll McCreary	3
	59		Mercury Litho	1
	60		Empty Building	5
	61		Mercury Litho	1
	62		Empty Building	2
	63		Delano Lumber	7
	64		Good Humor	1
	65		Arch Built Box (Archbilt Container)	6
	66a		National Can	12
	66b		National Can	3
	67		Empty Building	5
	68		Rheingold	1
	68a		Atlas Box	2
	69		Manhattan Door	1
	70a		H.C. Bohack Can Goods	6
	70b		H.C. Bohack Can Goods	2
	70c		H.C. Bohack Produce	10
	70d		H.C. Bohack Produce	10
	70e		H.C. Bohack Stge	10
	70f		H.C. Bohack Meat	6
	71		Abott Glass	1
	72		Strauss Stores	2
	73		Marquett Appliances	1
	74		Empty Building	1
	75		Empty Building	2
	76		F&M Trading	2
	77		Allied Composition	1
	78		Empty Building	1
				

Page 12		Fresh Pond Glendale / Woodhaven	

LIRR Triple header Glendale Atlas Terminal 1971

While Atlas Terminal was only a shadow of its former self, the former Glendale freight station, now a diner in this scene, gave ample testimony to the importance of this pocket-sized terminal to the LIRR's Montauk Branch. Atlas once stabled as many as three industrial switchers to handle traffic on the tight curves of this early industrial park. It's January 1971 and a glimmer of the high winter sun lights up the twilight years of first generation diesels like RS-1 265. Photo: Richard F. Makse

 	1		US Drug	1
	2		Redan Packaging	3
	3		Eastern Cabinet	4
	4		Kleigman Bros Jordan Chem	4
	5		Independent Chem	
			a	1
			b	2
	7		Hall Flooring	3
	8		Anco Wood Spec	1
	8b		Eagle Coal	3
	9		Peoquot Mfg	5
	10		Bedford Can Mfg	6
	11		P O P Displays	4
	12		Glendale Steel	3
			a	3
			b	2
	14		Gustin Bacon Mfg	3
	15		Interstate Container	
			a	8
			b	3
	16		Inactive	1
	17		National Builders	4
	18		Asco Supply	4
	19		White Pine Sash	3 

"On August 7, 1970, #1831, a crew deadhead train from Jamaica to Long Island City, passes Pinecraft Woodwork (A.K.A. White Pine Sash Company A.K.A. Glendale Sash Company), a sidetrack east of the 88th Street grade crossing in Glendale. Pinecraft's sidetrack came off the remnant of the eastbound connecting track between the Montauk Branch and the Rockaway Beach Branch." Photo: Richard F. Makse

	20		Brillo Mfg	3
	21		Certified Industries	
			a	4
			b	12
	22		US Plywood	3
	23		Wolf's Head Oil	4
	24		Olympic Radio	12
	26		Central Foundry	5
	27		General Electric % Heinz	3
	28		HJ Heinz	3
	29		Inactive	3
	30		General Fibre	3
	31		General Electric 	4
	33		Florence Merrick 	2
				

Page 13		Flatbush Ave

	
	
	B		All Purpose Whse	2
	C		Armour And Co	4
	D		Rabinowitz & Sons	
			Track 9	2
			Track 10	2
			Track 14	
	E		Vacant	
	F		Vacant	
	G		Dan's Supreme & Meat	
	H		Maxwell & Schwartz	
	I		Henry Froelich	
	J		Swift Beef	

Page 14		Winfield Team Yard

		
			Team Track (north of driveway)	12
			Team Track (south of driveway)	12

Page 15		Corona Freight Yard	

	1		Queens Scrap	4
	2		Willets Point Scrap	4
	3		Team Yard	28
	4		Empire Millwork	5
	5		Con Edison	4
	6		Con Edison	4
	7		A&P Tea Company	6
	8		Emenee Industries	2
	9		Daitch Shopwell	3
	10		Niemand Bros.	2
	11		J.R. Kramer	2
	13		Prudential Paper 	1

Page 16		Bayside Team Track

	
	
			Marben Lumber & Flooring	4

Page 17		Great Neck

	
	
			North Shore Mason Supply	

Page 18		Port Washington

	
	
	2		D.D. Wysong Inc.	4
	3		Port Washington Lumber	5

Page 19		Jamaica Freight Facilities

	
	
	1		Westinghouse Electric	3
	2		Korbro Oil	3
	3		Dynamic Elec.	3
	4			2
	5			2
	6		LIEB Iron Works	1
	7		LIEB Iron Works	3
	8			1
	9		Equipment Dist.	1
	10		Supreme Oil	1
	11		Sheffield Farms	7  View E, plant on right

	12			
	13			
	14		American Bakeries	3
	15			2
	16		Continental Baking	2
	17		Alex Peircey	2
	18		American Asbestos	1
	19		Sunrise Coal	4
	20			5

Page 20		Jamaica Freight Facilities	

	

	21			2
	22		LION	1
	23			3
	24			4
	25			3
	26			2
	27		Jamaica Water Supply	6
	28		Robinson Clay Products	7
	28A		Ideal Toys	5
	29		New York Telephone	7
	30		Associated Food Store	6
	30A		Elm Jay	6
	31			1
	32		T.T. & Terminal Lumber	12
	33			3
	34			
	35			
	37		Modern Maid Products DS	6
	38		Modern Maid Products	4
	39		Sun Dew Corp	4
	40		W.H. Foods	3
	41			3
	42		Neptune Paper	3
	43		Amco plastics	3
	44		Top Track #1	25
	45		Top Track #2	25
	46		Ind. Plywood & Plygem	8
	47			2
	48			8
	49		Ideal Toy Co.	8
	50		Hinch Produce	7
	51		B. Gertz Warehouse	7
	52		McGuire Industries	4
	53		Holban Supply	8
	54		Mango Mix	9
	55		Price Premiums	6
	56		Ammirati Masons	4
	57		B&P Stone	1
	60		Tompkins Bros.	5
	61		J&L Adikes	4
	62		Ideal Toy Co.	3
	63		Ideal Toy Co.	2
	64		Jamaica Lumber	2
	65		Highway Track & Jamaica Food	1
	67		Jamaica Food	4
	68		Hollis Brick & Paragon Builders	2

Page 21		Valley Stream	

	

	2		Team Track #1	9
	3		Team Track #2	6

Page 22		West Hempstead Branch	

	

	3		Barton Transit Mix	10
			Valley Stream Concrete	3
	5		Storage Track	8
	6		Baisley Lumber Co.	4
	7		Wm. Fitzhugh, Inc.	6

Page 23		West Hempstead	

	

	1		John A. Schwartz	1
	3		LI Wholesalers	4
	4		Inter County Bakers	2

Page 24		Woodmere	

	

	2		Hewlett Fuel & Supply	7
	3		Levitt Flooring	3

Page 25		Far Rockaway		
	2		Team Track	

Page 26		Long Beach		
	1		Gulf Oil	7
	3		LILCO	125
	4		AMA	2

Page 27		Rockville Centre		
	2		Whitehall Cabinet	2
	5		LILCO	3

Page 28		Freeport		
	3		Team track #1	6
	4		Team track #2	8
	5		Team track #3	8
	6		Molloy Bros.   Joyland Feed	
	7		Intercounty Dist.	
	8		Acme Parts & Refinishing Co.	

Page 29		Merrick		
	1		Team Track	2
	2		Fencecraft	6
	4		Phalanx Woodwork	6
	5		Horn Construction	
	6		Empire Millwork	10
	7		Team Track	6

Page 30		Wantagh		
	1		Team Track	8

Page 31 	Massapequa
	1	 	Team Track	14
	2		Massapequa Fuel Co.	2

Page 32		Amityville		
	1		Team Track	14
	3		Nassau Suffolk Lumber	6
	4		Amityville Feed	2
	4		W. Heinly (coal)	2
	7		Copiague Team Track	6

Page 33		Lindenhurst		
	5		Team Track	5

Page 34		Babylon		
	1		Team Track	
	2		No. American Winfield Door	
	4		General Builders (Risbergs Mill)	
	5		Harwein Feed & Fuel	
	6		Saston Building Material	
	7		LILCO	

Page 35		Bay Shore		
	2		Frank Bros Coal	4
	3		NY Telephone Company	2
	4		Bay Shore Flooring	5
	5		Voges Feed	
	9		Summers Lumber	6
	11		Team Track	8
	12		Team Track	25
			H. Verby & Sons	2
	13		Suffolk Fuel	4
	14		Opezio & Sons	2
	15		Selchow & Righter	2

Page 36		Islip	

	
	15		Lawrence Scrap  	4 

			 J. Abrew's Coal Yard <1924 view SW 02/08

	16		Grinnell Lithograph	5 Note: Used the team track.
	17		Islip Coal & Feed	4

	18		Team Track - Bayslip Plumbing Supplies	4

		Oakdale		
			Team Track      	7

Page 37		Sayville

Sayville - Bayport 1966

Sayville view west c.1910

Train 4012 Eastbound 01/05/80 Photo: Bob Bender

		
	1		Pagels -  Quintree	3
			           - Sunshine	3
	6		Team Track      	7
	7		Bailey          	5
	 			

		Bayport

Sayville - Bayport 1966

Bayport 1938 Sanborn

		
	1		Bayport Lumber   	8
	3		Team Track      	10

		Bluepoint

	  Sidings Out
	  Station <1910 

Page 38		Patchogue

LIRR 56 Eng 1554 at  Patchogue 1964	The 1963 station at Patchogue had been one of the early goals of Bob Waldbauer's long administration as Mayor of Patchogue. Back nearly 40 years ago, people in Patchogue still talked about the Lace Mills and the old turntable hard by the river. Mayor Bob still occupies a place of honor on the list of great people who crossed my path. This view of a two-car train 56, with a P-72 and a B&M coach, dates from July 1, 1964. The pride that Tom Goodfellow and his staff felt in the Route of the Dashing Commuter is evident in the cleanliness of 1554 and its two-car consist. Photo: Richard F. Makse
P54D-93-PELCO-Plant-1954	Patchogue Electric Light Co. PELCO built 1899 and razed June/1967, located just west of the creek where the current LILCO sub-station stands.	Patchogue River south c.1906
LIRR MOW storage 2001	LILCO substation behind the main line (ex PELCO location). 30' bridge with placard "GANG 54" over Patchogue River - 10-2001.	Patchogue River - 10/2001
Week's Coal Ramp	Lace Mill south c.1935	Lace Mill south c.1906

	8		Team Track	9
	14		Case    	2
	17		NY Telephone	3
	19		Alco    	5

Page 39		Bellport		
	1		Team Track	5
		Brookhaven		
	2		Robinson	4
		Mastic		
	1		Team Track 	8
	3		DePiaz Duck Farm	2
		Center Moriches		
	1		Chapman Lumber	5
	3		Team Track	8
		East Moriches		
	1		L.H. Smith Moriches Produce	6
	2		Team Track	12
	3		Red Comb Mills	10
	4		Chapman Wm. Southampton Lumber	

Page 40		Eastport		
	1		Beacon Milling	8 
	2		Beacon Milling	8   Beacon Feeds 1986
	4		Team Track	17
	5		Team Track	7

		Speonk		
	6		Team Track	11
	7		Silicon Corp.	10

Page 41		Westhampton		
	2		Team Track	2
	3		Rogers	5
	4		Air Force	3

		Quogue	

Quogue Station view E c.1955 Photo: LIRR  Archive: Jim Gillin

The passing siding is the first track to the left of the Main .  The team track is the 2nd track to the left of the Main and the coal bunker/silo of T. C. Warren & Co. at the far left was accessed by the spur continuing to curve northeastwards, just visible beyond the “T” box and telephone pole visible in the center of the photo. The undergrade crossing in the foreground is Quogue-Riverhead Road , SR104 which was used to access the station parking lot at the far right. Research: Dave Keller

	3		Trifano	10

		Hampton Bays		
	1		Team Track	8
	3		Jackson	3

		Southampton		
	1		LILCO	3
	2		Team Track	8
	3		Southampton Coal	2
	4		Southampton Coal	2
	8		Southampton Lumber	5
	9		Rosko	5
	10		NY Telephone	5

Page 42		Bridgehampton		
	1		Southampton Produce	4
			Sayre baldwin	
			Dan Storey	
	2		G.L.F.	4
	4		Vahlsing	3
	5		G.L.F.	5
	6		Team Tracks	5
	7		Team Tracks	8
	8		Team Tracks	12
	9		I.M. Young	6
	10		South Shore Produce	4
	14		Easthampton Lumber	4
	15		Easthampton Lumber	8
	16		Pulver Gas	2
	17		Shinnecock Sand	8

		Watermill		
	2		Team Track	8
	3		A&P	8
	4		A&P	8

Page 43 		East Hampton		
	1		Team Track	32
	2		Team Track	8
	3		East Hampton Lumber	9
	4		East Hampton Lumber	4
	5		Shinnecock Coal	6

		Wainscott		
	1		Team Track	20
	2		A.C. Carpenter	5
	3		Mason Mix	

		Amagansett		
	2		Amagansett Lumber	3

Page 44		Promised Land		
	1		Atlantic Processing Co. (Smith Meal)	11
	2		Atlantic Processing Co. (Smith Meal)	8

			Abandoned Smith Meal Fish siding	

		Montauk		
	1		Republic Aerojet	35
	2		Republic Aerojet	35
	3		Argyle	
				 

Page 45		Queens Village		
	1		Dugans	4
	2		Dugans	 
	3		Candle Works	7
	4		Dugans - car storage	7
	6		Team Track	7
	7		Team Track	7
	8		Team Track	12
	9		Team Track	11
	10		Anchor Coal	5

Page 46 		Floral Park		
	1	 	Kingsway Plumbing	4
	2		H. Berlind Inc.	1
	3		Universal Millwork	7
	4		Lehman Sewer Pipe	8
	5		Floral Park Building Material	2
	8		Team Track	7
	9		Creedmoor State Hospital	6
	10		Jericho Sash & Door	2

Page 47 		New Hyde Park	

	

	2		Interstate Cigar	
	3		Otto Schmidt	
	4		Trio Warehouse	
	5		Team Track	
	6		Eckert Iron Works	
	7		Boro Hall Lumber	
	8		Alliance Paper	
	9		LI News	
	10		Paramount Corp.	
	11		US Plywood	
	12		Hewly Sash & Door	
	13		Jasco Aluminum	
	14		Studebaker Corp.	

Page 48		Mineola

Nassau Tower 04/12/01 Photo: Brian Weinberg	Nassau Tower oversees the Penn Station westbound passenger entering the mainline from the Oyster Bay branch.	Nassau Tower 1966 Photo: Dave Keller
Nassau Tower 1966 Photo: Dave Keller	Here one can clearly see the Garden City route diverging south in the foreground as seen from the Mineola Blvd bridge. Directly behind lies the LIRR sub-power station.

 	1		Lewis Sherry	2
	2		United Overseas	2
	3		Feldman Wood Products	4
	4		Wilson & Co.	4
	5		Reserve Supply	4
	6		Richmond Enterprises	1
	7		Mineola Coal	4
	8		Local Steel	3
	9		Albertson Lumber	5
	10		Mineola Waste	1
	11		Windsor Fuel	2
	12		Pirrsburg Plate Glass	4
	13		Marsh Ball Produce	2
	14		H.L. Large	2
	15		Latham Bros.	10
	16		Mineola Plumbing	4
	17		Mineola Freeser	2
	18		Behrer-Nason	4
	19		Swift & Co.	3
	20		Body & Tank	2
	21		Ducon Company	2
	22		Imperial News	4
	23		Northeast Plywood	4
	24		Magic Chef - LI Stove	2
	25		Amplex Corp	4
	26		Consolidated Litho	4
	27		Laboratory Furniture	4
	28		US Printing	4
	29		Mason Mint	5		

Mason PEAKS and Mason MINTS were confectionery products made by the Mason, Au & Magenheimer Confectionery Mfg. Co. located at 22 Henry St. , Brooklyn until 1949. At that time they re-located to Mineola (later 150 Old Country Road , Carle Place ), Long Island . Mason Peaks was a candy bar (bar shaped) with coconut covered in chocolate. A Mason Mint was a round, chocolate-covered mint patty. Mason also made Dots and Crows which are now owned by Tootsie Roll.

Page 49		Garden City		
	30		E.A. Gillespie	4
	31		Max Rosen Lumber	4
	32		Oxford Filing	4
	33		Newsday	7

LIRR Freight Eng 449 Newsday NY 4/21/65

A westbound road freight rumbles through Newsday crossover on the Central Extension. The track through the gate on the left leads to the Newsday plant. About 100' to the rear was the site of the former Newsday platform, used by the Mitchel Field shuttle until 1953. On the right is the one box car spot for Mercury Millwork. An absolutely fascinating piece of the LIRR that saw freights, race trains, circus trains and MU's and trolleys during its heyday. Photo: Richard F. Makse

	34		LILCO	3
	35		A&P Team Track	10
			A&P Produce	5
			A&P Grocery	5
			A&P Meat	4
	36		Marta Coop.	4
	37		Capital Warehouse	2
	38		Hampton Sales	2
	39		Team Tracks (2)	45
	40		General Bronze	6
	41		Waldbaums	12
	42		Blanchard Press	7
	43		Arma Corp.	2
	44		AMF Corp.	3
	45		Colonial Press	1
	46		Continential Extrusion	2
	47		Mitchell Air Force Base	10
	48		Hogan Industrial Supply	2
	49		J.W. Walthers	2
	50		NY Telephone	2
	51		Lee Story	3
	52		Borus Bros. Paper Co.	2
	53		Master Millwork	2
	54		Garden City Paper Co.	2
	55		Plowman Bros.	2
	56		Lamparter Accustial Co.	2
	57		Wimaco Co.	1

Page 50 		Roslyn		
	2		Schroeter Lumber Co.	4
	3		Seaboard Swimming Pools	3
	6		H&H Prod. Co.	4
	7		Helena Rubenstein	7

Page 51		Glen Cove		
	2		LILCO	4
	3		Team Track	7
	4		Sea Cliff Coal & Lumber	5
	5		Nigro Coal Co.	3
	6		Titus, Browne, Downing	2
	8		Nassau Suffolk Lumber	6

Page 52		Oyster Bay		
	1		Jakobson Shipyards	3   Switch in 1940
	2		Oyster Bay Lumber Co.	5
	5		Long Island Coal Co.	2   View E. 1953

Page 53		Westbury		
	1		Hicks Westbury Inc.	6
	2		Ellner & Pike	3
	3		Nicholson Farms	5
	3a		Napoli Bros.	
	4		Dykes Lumber	2
	4a		Pollicastro of Westbury	
	5		Ace Flooring	2
	6		Nassau Hardwood Flooring	5
	6a		S.W. Anderson	1
	7		Austin Nichols Co.	10
	9		Westbury Mason	8
	10		Friendly Frost	
	10a		Nassau Warehouse (Troiano)	

Page 54		Hicksville		
	1		King Kullen	10
	2		Inland	15
	3		HixNewcrete	15
	4		Greenman	4
	5		TID	10
	6		Radio Recep	3
	7			5
	8		Columbia CC	8
	9		Paragon Lumber	5
	10		Metfood	14
	11		Aurora Plastics	5
	12		Georgia Pacific	5
	P29		Syosset Team Track	8
	13		Knickerbocker	8
	14		Circle Wire	25
	15		New York State	10
	16		Plastic Paper	4
	17		NY Telephone	10
	18		Sanita EagleBeef	8
	19		Metalab	7
	20		Certified Stone	14
	21		Do Cement	15
	22		Polak Imperial	5
	23		Nassau Troiano	8
	24		McKeon Lumber	5
	25		HE Schiff Dist.	3
	26		Meadowbrook Paper	3
	27		LILCO	20
	28		All Purpose Trio Whse	10
	29		Plastic Materials	5
	30		RC Hooker Chemical	10

Page 55		Huntington		
	1		Century Waste	
	2		Lombo Concrete	
	3		A. Munder & Sons	
	4		GLF	
	4a		R.B. Hamilton	
	5		Team Track	
	6		Team Track	
	9		Nassau Suffolk Lumber	
	10		Nassau Suffolk Fuel	
	11		W.W. Wood Inc.	
	12		Team Track	
	13		Huntington Materials	
	15		Kleet Lumber	

Page 56 		Greenlawn		
	1		LILCO	
	2		Team Track (Island Trucking Co. Leasee)	

Page 57		Northport		
	1	 	Axinns	5
	2	 	Northport Lumber	6
	3	 	Team Track	5

Page 58		Kings Park		
	1		State Hospital (coal trestle)	10
	2		State Hospital (store house)	4
	4		Andrew Carlson & Sons	3

Page 59		Smithtown		
	1		Smithtown Lumber Co.	10
	4		Team Track	9

		St. James		
	8		Team Track	22

		Flowerfield		
	9		Gyrodyne	2

Page 60		Stony Brook		
	1		Team Track	12

		Setauket		
	3		Suffolk Materials Corp	25

Page 61		Port Jefferson		
	1		M. Remz	6 
	2		Loper Bros. Lumber Corp.	12
	3		Suffolk Sand & Stone	4
	4		LILCO	4
	5		I.M. Young	5
	7		Team Track	14

Page 62		Bethpage		
			Grumman Plant #1 tank cars only	2
			Grumman Plant North side #1 inbound	10
			Grumman Plant North side #3 coal run	5
			Natcon	1
			Sturtevant	3
			General Motors

Page 63		Farmingdale	

	

	1		L. Karp
	2		Team Track
	3		Farmingdale Gons
	4		MacRose
	5		Leopold
	6		Plastic Calendaring
	8		J.T. Sullivan
	9		US Plywood US Lumber
	10		New Haven Paperboard
	11		Freeport Woodcraft
	12		Republic Aviation
	13		J&S Trucking
	14		East Coast Trestle
	15		D. Brown Osler
	16		
	17		Anchor Post & Fence
	18		Packard FLG
	19		Weyerhauser (Reddis)
	20		Sears Warehouse

Page 64	

	1		Liberty Ind. Park
			Hygrade Paper
			Lamtex
			Coreo Prod.
			American Lumber
	2		Randall lumber
	3		Whitestone Prod.
	4		Accounting Card
	5		Maradel
	6		Kindor
	7		Urb Prob.
	8		All State Plywood
	9		Merrit Asoc.
	11		Hermans Star Bakery
	12		Porch & Patio
	13		Reliance Supply & Sprung Mon.
	14		Van Roy Millwork
	15		Ajayem Lumber

Page 65		Wyandanch	
	1		Shepard Machinery
	2		Conservative Gas
	3		Team Track

Page 66		Deer Park	
	1		Team Track	
	2		Pinter Bros. Warehouse	
	3		Custom Made Bag	
	4		LA Sales	
	4a		LA Sales	
	5		Airborne Instruments	
	 		Aerotest Labs	
	6		Edgewood State Hospital	

Page 67 		Brentwood 		
	1		Pilgrim State Hospital Trestle	12
	1a		Pilgrim State Hospital Storehouse	4
	2		Dykes Lumber	2
	3		Reserve Supply	4
	4		Equitable Lumber	5
	5		Team Track	
	6		LILCO	8
	7		Hills Produce	
	8		Hills Grocery	
	9		Thompson Tire	3
	10		Carnation Paper	3

Page 68		Central Islip		
	1		Central Islip State Hospital coal	4
	2		Central Islip State Hospital warehouse	8
	3		G.L.F. Coop	3
	4		Team Track	4
	5		Kaufman-Allied	2

Page 69		Medford		
	2		Team Track	7
	3		Pyrofax Gas	2
	4		Island Coal & Lumber Co.	2

		Holtsville		
	1		Leo Karp	10
	2		Prima Asphalt	45

Page 70		Brookhaven Lab		
	1		Team Tracks	
	 			44
	 			32
	 			32
	 			30
	2		Twin County 	15
			Acme	
			NY Trap Rock	

Page 71		Yaphank		
	1		Team Track	9

		Manorville		
	1		Grumman Siding	32
	2		Grumman Siding	15
	3		Grumman Siding	25
	4		Grumman Siding	15

Page 72		Calverton		
	1		LIP	10
	4		HA Pollack	3
	5		I.M. Young	3
	6		I.M. Young	6
	7		Team Track	20

Page 73 		Riverhead

LIRR 211 GLF elevators west of Riverhead 1970

While freight traffic on Long Island had been decreasing year after year, I never thought, when I took this photo, that the passenger train would soon be reduced to one car and most freight sidings would be torn up and idle. GLF was always a busy siding. Photo: Richard F. Makse

		
	1		Kroemer Siding	
			A&P	5
			Riverhead Redi-Mix	3
	2		DR Brown	2
	3		LICD	25
	4		Pyrofax	3
	5		Reserve Supply	8
	6		LILCO	8
	7		GLF	25
	7b		GLF	25
	8		LI Produce	12
	9		LILCO	5
	10		LI Ice Co.	4
	11		LI Caul. Association	5
	13		Suffolk Potato	8
	14		Jackson	4
	17		Team Track #1	6
	18		Team Track #2	6
	19		Team Track #3	6
	20		Team Track #4	5
	21		New Team Track	5
	23		Old Team Track	5
	27		Riverhead Bldg.	10
	28		Riverhead Bldg.	4
	30		NY Telephone	4

Page 74 		Aquebogue		
	1		LIP	7
	1a		LIP	4
	3		Corwin	4

		Jamesport		
	1		Team Track	6
	2		Suffolk Potato	4
	4		Atlantic Fertilizer	6

Page 75		Laurel	

LIRR Laurel Station 07/16/67

On a rainy Sunday morning, Laurel lives out its last year of existence on Long Island's North Fork. Photo: Richard F. Makse

	
	2		Fargo Potato	3

		Mattituck		
	2		Jacobs	3
	4		Team Track	10
	5		Team Track	4
	6		Penny Lumber	4
	7		Schulman	4
	8		LIP	5

		Cutchogue		
	1		I.M. Young	6
	2		Team Track	6
	3		Pollack	7

Page 76		Peconic		
	1		Team Track	3
	2		Team Track	14

		Southold		
	1		Cassidy	3
	3		Southold Lumber	7
	4		Team Track	13      [Original Southold passing siding, 
	5		I.M. Young	4	old team track torn out.]
	6		LICA	2
	7		Southold Lumber	2
	8		LIP	3 

		Greenport		
	1		Team Track	6
	2		Team Track	8
	6		Burts Coal Company	3

Page 77		Evergreen		
	1		Tulnoy Lumber	9
	2		Forbee Bros.	2
	3		Nestles	3
	4		Bienenfeld Glass	3
	5		Elite Sales	3
	6		Refined Macaroni	2
	7		Nut-Ola Fat	3
	8		Bakers Purchasing	3
	10		Boro Kitchen Cabinet	3
	11		P. Dietz Coal	4
	12		A&P Tea Company	7
	13		United Grocers	3
	15		Gottesfeld Granite	2
	16		Nut-Ola Fat	4
	17		Kobi Polyethelene Bag	2

Page 78		East New York		
	1		Brooklyn Terminal Market	27
	3		Western Woodworking	6
	4		Rosenberg & Son	7
	6		Simon Holland	7
	6b		Simon Holland	8
	7		Picone Bros.	12
	8		New Lots Classification Yard	
	9		Livonia Ave Yard	
	10		Piel Bros.	4
	11		Brooklyn Tire	3
	12		Schoenberg Salt	6
	13		Schoenberg Salt	 
	14		Lieberman & Koren	4

		Vanderveer Park		
	5		General Clarifier	2
	6		Remz Prod.	2
	8		Glenwood Mason	3
	9		Glenwood Mason	2
	11		Sears Roebuck	14
	13		Key Foods	4
	15		Brooklyn Union Gas	3
	16		Favorite Plastics	4

Page 79		Parkville		
	1		Team Track	10
	1b		Team Track	2
	4		Interchange with NYCRR	10
	5		Scheck Bros.	3
	5b		Scheck Bros.	3
	6		Mason Mix	4

		Bay Ridge		
	1		Brooklyn Army Terminal	
	2		G&R Packing (6 tracks)	35
			Car Floats - 2 floats 	
			Bay Ridge Yard 9 tracks