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Found in the wall of the Stony Brook station during recent renovation. Stony Brook was massively remodeled in 1917, this bit of history was still trapped within its walls and did not come forth until about 10 years ago. Info: Dave Morrision |
Freight Information: LIRR Freight 07/30/08 Working Yard A 03/15/2008 Islip Freight Sightings 03/15/2008 LIRR Coal Operations 2/17/08 LIRR Freight Sidings 1966 02/17/08 LIRR Milk Cars 07/29/07 LIRR Freight Yards 02/09/07 Switching LI City Floats 12/04/06 Freight Ops Q&A - M.Smith 09/07/06 LIRR Freight Info 1941 & 1945 01/08/05 Freight Ops Yard A N. Kalis 12/14/04 1947 Pass/Freight Statistics 1950 Freight Car Types/Loads Chart Location Updates: Islip 10/02/08 Morris Park Shops 10/01/08 Mattituck 09/17/08 Bethpage 09/15/08 Oyster Bay 09/15/08 Riverhead 09/14/08 LI City 09/01/08 Montauk 08/10/08 Oyster Bay Turntable 08/01/08 Mineola 07/01/08 Dutch Kills/Kearny - Texas Oil 06/06/08 Pinelawn 06/01/08 Atlas Terminal 05/17/08 Speonk 03/13/2008 Babylon 03/07/08 Bay Shore 02/28/08 Bliss Yard 02/17/08 Great River 01/14/08 Ronkonkoma 01/06/08 Greenport 12/31/07 LI City Yard A 11/04/07 Hicksville 08/31/07 Eastport 08/15/07 Montauk Cutoff 07/06/07 Fresh Pond Junction 05/26/07 West Side Yard Penn Station 05/07/07 Patchogue 05/04/07 LIRR Hooping Orders 03/19/07 LI City Phelps-Dodge 02/06/07 LI City Wheelspur Yard 01/12/07 LI City Yard A Update Part II 11/01/06 Camp Upton Update 12/27/06 Kings Park 11/13/06 Rockville Centre Project 11/01/06 Sayville 07/23/06 Jamaica 10/03/03 Great River E. Islip Hist. Soc. 01/17/05 Branch Info:
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These are the job specifics for the construction of the standard, 4-bay, brick engine house. It proscribes the construction materials to be used. Sort of like a “job standard” which the construction must follow. Design of the OBay, Greenport and Patchogue engine houses, hence their references at the bottom of the document giving the ACTUAL BLUEPRINT reference numbers per structure. Info: Dave Keller
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I’ve come upon similar items from the late 19th and very early 20th century that seem to have been personally issued by train crews to assist them in their daily routine. Sort of like having a desk job and you like to cradle the phone on your shoulder, but the company won’t spring for any shoulder rests, so you go and buy your own for your own use and comfort. Another
example was a document from 1909 that had a rubber stamp imprint
affixed that read “Conductor Noe, Train 60.” (And,
as an aside, conductor Noe’s first initial was “O.”
I kid you not.) Obviously,
this conductor held his run for a goodly period of time that he
would bother to have his own stamp made with the train number
and he had no threat of someone taking train 60
from him. Thus . . . the
rubber stamp allowed him to just smack his documents rather than
handwrite every one. It appears that the Conductor with the seat check (above) devised a system of keeping track of his ticket collections from his passengers, by having his own seat checks printed. It was definitely a privately-printed item. The back has a train schedule thereon, but also has an advertisement for a local theatre in NYC. The theatre obviously paid for the cost of printing and while the conductor got free, personalized seat checks, the theatre got publicity and the riding public got a free timetable. They were perhaps issued in different-colored cardstock for the use on the conductor’s different runs or days of the week. This
conductor may have started the whole seat-check thing that has
been in use for so many years on the LIRR! |
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Affixed to a rider’s luggage in the old days. The express agent would put it on the bags with a leather strap. Upon receipt of your bag(s) at your destination, the express agent would remove the tag for reuse for another customer on another train. American Railway Supply Co., was in business from 1891 to the 1920s. Info: Brendan Manley With
the years of operation you provided, that would confirm my dating and
conveniently place it about mid-way during the 1891-1920s era, yet
closer to the earlier end, since by the time the 1920s rolled along,
the Pennsylvania Railroad, the parent road of the LIRR since 1900, was
in full-swing bringing their systems on board. 1928 was a big
year for institution of the block signal system and clearance cards,
and Pennsy-style employee timetables. Pennsy-style
uniforms began in the early 1920s. Disposable card stock baggage checks were used at that time, punched by the express agent. Before you mentioned the American Railway Supply Co. (who made all sorts of stuff back then) and their dates of existence, I would have dated the tag c.1910. So your brass tag would have been used in the teens and earlier. Again . . . c. 1910 would be a safe bet to date it. Research: Dave Keller
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The two long keys (1,2) are somewhat different versions of the old "coach key" used to (literally) lock up the end storm doors of the Pullman-Standard Coaches (2700, 2800 & 2900's)...all used the same ones. The flat key is an old
locker key(6)
from the Agents Office to keep "his" stuff, and two of the
shorter hollow barrel keys are signal keys. The other flat key,
(not the old Ford ignition key (3) |
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