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The current Long Island Rail Road East Side Access
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![]() Sunnyside Yard Rendering C. 1905 In 1910 the Pennsylvania Railroad had completed its terminal in New York City, which was connected by tunnels to New Jersey, and under the East River to Long Island. At Sunnyside the large yard of the Pennsylvania Railroad was constructed. An agreement was made with that Railroad and the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company whereby the cars of the Long Island Railroad would be carried through the tunnels under the East River into the Terminal at Seventh Avenue and Thirty-second Street, New York. Thus the Long Island Railroad acquired what successive administrations had striven for in vain, a terminal on Manhattan Island. In order to reach this terminal it was necessary to electrify from Jamaica to New York, which was accomplished in 1910, and the first train run into the Pennsylvania Station on September 10th of that year. Felix E. Reifschneider's 1925 Long Island Rail Road History |
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![]() LI City Boiler House 070/7/1919 Collection: Dave Morrison |
![]() LI City Canopy and Station c. late 1914-1920 Collection: Dave Morrison |
![]() LI City Coal Tower 07/07/1919 Collection: Dave Morrison |
![]() LI City Express Stable Entrance 07/14/19 Collection: Dave Morrison |
![]() LI City Ferry Entrance 06/23/19 Collection: Dave Morrison |
![]() LI City Freight Offices 07/14/19 Collection: Dave Morrison |
![]() LI City Ice House 06/24/19 Collection: Dave Morrison |
![]() LI City Pump House 06/23/19 Collection: Dave Morrison |
![]() LI City Shop Office c. 1918 Collection: Dave Morrison |
![]() LI City Switch House 06/22/20 Collection: Dave Morrison |
![]() LI City Wagon Repair Shop c. 1918 Collection: Dave Morrison |
![]() LI City Engine House c. 1918 Collection: Dave Morrison |
Sunnyside Yard Rendering
C. 1956 by Robert
Wegner
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LI Rail
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Float Lead Yard Emery Map 1 ![]() |
Arch Street Transfer Westbound Classification (8th Street) Yard Emery Map 2 ![]() |
Thomson St to Queens Blvd. Yard A Emery Map 3 ![]() |
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Yard A Hump - Eastbound Classification Yard
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Yard A Hump to Harold Ave Yard Emery Map 5![]() |
Gosman Yard - US Postal Center Emery Map 6 ![]() |
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![]() Looking East-NEast: Sunnyside passenger yard upper left, freight team track platforms lower left, Montauk Cut-off tracks centerview, and Executone Telephone Systems (ex-Sunshine Biscuits bakery 1956) upper center. Photo: Nick Kalis Collection |
Montauk Branch Cut-Off
The Montauk Freight Cut-Off was opened in
1910. From the time of the leasing of the old South Side Railroad in 1876 by
the Long Island Railroad, most of the traffic from the Island of Manhattan
and Long Island City was carried in steam trains over the Montauk Division
through Richmond Hill. But in 1910, with the
opening of the East River tunnels, practically all the passenger traffic
from Manhattan was carried in electric trains over the Main Line. This made
it impossible to route freight trains from the old North Side yards over the
Main Line, as had been formerly done, as it would interfere with passenger
train operation. Accordingly, this elevated freight connection, known as the
Montauk Freight Cut-Off, was built from the North Side yards to a connection
with the Montauk Division at Dutch Kills Creek, a distance of over two
miles.
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![]() 5. Honeywell Ave view west into Yard A switchmen cabin and floodlight tower 3-29-46 |
![]() 6. Honeywell Ave Overpass looking east toward LIRR Hump lead ![]() 9. Yard A - Ore Jennies tunnel rock blast loads to be delivered to Prima Rock, Holtsville photo: 4-96 |
![]() 7. Right: PRR sand towers, washers and inspection pits 3-29-46 ![]() 10. Hunter's Point at the Queen's Midtown Tunnel (Long Island Expressway Tolls) 07-15-03 Photo: Copyright 2003 Bernard Ente |