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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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| LIRR STRIKE INFO | ||
 Cover of a VERY RARE "Special Timetable" in the event Amtrak went on strike September 22, 1997. Strike never happened and this "Special Timetable" was quickly pulled and extra copies shredded. Private collection of Big John Fan of the Sunrise Trail. |
 Cover of a brochure issued by the LIRR for Nassau County residents on how to cope with a possible LIRR strike Private collection of Big John Fan of the Sunrise Trail.
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 Small one page flier issued by the LIRR in the event of a potential Amtrak Strike on June 24th (year unknown). This strike is not the 1997 pictured left. Private collection of Big John Fan of the Sunrise Trail. |
