LIRR - Glendale

Glendale: Rockaway Beach Branch -  In service eff: 9/15/27 per General Notice #118. Replaced Glendale Station on Montauk Branch. Renamed "Parkside".

Parkside: Rockaway Beach Branch - Opened: 9/15/1927 as replacement for Glendale Station on Montauk Branch called “Glendale” on General Order #118 and ETT’s when placed in service.
Out of service: 10/29/1958. Low platform in service: 10/29/1958. Discontinued as station stop: 6/8/1962. Branch abandoned: 6/9/62. 

I'm assuming that Glendale on the Montauk branch didn't have much ridership and was abandoned early on (1927).

There was much more ridership along the Rockaway Beach branch so a station was opened at Metropolitan Avenue and this station was built as the replacement for the Montauk branch Glendale station stop.  When it opened it was listed on ETTs as "Glendale" but sometime later was renamed "Parkside."

Glendale reopened some years later, with a station stop and shelter shed on the opposite side of the tracks from the original depot location.  My copy slide of the shelter shed says c. 1941 and the data I have below says the station was reopened after c. 1942, so as they are both circa dates, I'm assuming that 1941-42 was the date of reopening.  Research: Dave Keller
 

Glendale Junction view S 1932
Archive: Art Huneke

LIRR #467-468 at Weitzner Brothers-Papper
77th Ave East of Glendale Station
View W at 80th St. overpass.

Emery map Glendale MP5 to 80th St.
10/1958 Dave Keller archive

Emery map Glendale Jct. 
10/1958 Dave Keller archive

Glendale Station Tower 9 - (GW) view E 1906
Dave Keller archive

Glendale Station 73rd St. crossing view E 
2/20/1976 (Madden-Keller)
 

In April, 1964, the Glendale freight house (above right) had one of the last surviving pre-Goodfellow circle LI logos. Glendale's agent primarily spent his day handling shipments at Atlas Terminal. Today, the Shops at Atlas Park occupy the Hemmerdinger Estates property and the freight house still stands, largely unchanged.  As with many locations on the west end of the Montauk Branch, Glendale represented extraordinary freight business. Atlas had its own stable of switchers to handle the sharp curves in the terminal. In later years, the late Dale Hemmerdinger, grandson of the founder of Atlas, one of the first industrial parks in New York City, became MTA Chairman.  Photo/Archive/Info: Richard Makse

Trestle was burned sometime between end of service in 1962 and my 1970 photo; perhaps around 1965.  Info: Dave Keller

ALCO RS# #1550 RF-7 crossing 88th Street, Glendale on the Montauk Branch on a warm Summer day, 8/31/1976. The crew has just completed drilling the White Pine Sash, General Electric or US Plywood sidings on the old connection to the Rockaway Beach Branch and is heading back to Holban Yard.
Info: Jeff Erlitz