LIRR Paperwork   
                                                                                                                                      

The Long Island Rail Road Company Founded April 24, 1834 
Private collection of Big John Fan of the Sunrise Trail.
 Archive copy: R. Andersen

General LIRR Notecard
Collection: Paul Strubeck 

ASC Test Card
Collection: Paul Strubeck 

LIRR Retirement Form

LIRR June 29-1905 Timetable
Collection: Dave Morrison

LIRR Freight Schedule 
06/05/1974
Archive: Tim Darnell

Freight Pickup Slip Form 121

Freight Pickup Slip Form 121
Glen Cove (a piano) 
Collection: John Fusto

Bill Of Lading

1928 Trip Pass Sag Harbor
Collection: Dave Keller

Freight Notice

1940 World's Fair

 
1967 Parlor Car East

LIRR Form 53 Student Pass
46 Trip Ticket
Collection: John Fusto

LIRR Freight Service MTA Pamphlet
Collection: John Fusto

Form 166

500 Mileage Ticket 1917
Collection: John Fusto

500 Mileage Ticket Back 1917
Collection: John Fusto

Half Fare Ticket
It's a cash fare purchased ON BOARD the train and issued by trainmen/conductors/ticket collectors.

It had been issued under the authority of the United States Railway Administration (USRA) which took control of all  USA railroads beginning at the outset of WWI in 1917 until 1920.  

The LIRR used USRA marked forms until the early 1920s. I have a train order from 1921 that still says USRA across the top.  Just using up old stationery, I guess.  Why not?

Seeing the ticket also lists the Manhattan Beach branch, which was abandoned to passenger service in 1924, this ticket was issued between 1917 and 1924. 

Collection: John Fusto
History: Dave Keller  

Shipment of a bag of gold coins, valued at $1,000 going via Wells, Fargo & Co. from San Francisco on the steamer "Golden City" to Panama, then land transfer to Aspinwall on the east coast and whatever connecting steamer will take it on to New York City.  1864

(This was typical of the hazardous shipping of valued merchandise before the days of the Panama Canal! Transcontinental railroad wasn't yet in place, either, and there was a war going on! ) History: Dave Keller

Wading River station - 1 box - 1877
Collection: Dave Keller

Wading River station - from Port Jeff 101 feet of molded white pine - 1896
Collection: Dave Keller

Riverhead station from Westbury - 3 bundles of trees - 1878 Collection: Dave Keller

Manor station - 1 barrel sweet potatoes 
1877 Collection: Dave Keller

To Agent at Eastport - Shipping rates on berries - LIRR Traffic Dept. - 1890
Collection: Dave Keller

And another interesting one. A shipment of lime from Amityville to St. Catherine's Infirmary at Maywood Siding, the famous siding along the Central Extension where Charles "Mile-a-Minute" Murphy made his famous bicycle ride behind a LIRR train in 1899 (only 10 years earlier!). The directions on the bill say "Central Extension . . . near Farmingdale." Guess the train crew didn't know where it was . . . 

Back then, lime was used for two major purposes: 
1. Dump down the openings under the outhouse seats to kill the smell and disintegrate the waste collected
2. Use to assist in the decomposition of dead bodies

Being an infirmary, they may have used it for both those purposes, such as when they had a "John Doe" or "Jane Doe" in the morgue.

LIRR Waybill Blank 1965 "Dashing Dan" logo
Collection: Dave Keller

 
1962 Commutation Weekly Ticket for Henry Keller, Dave Keller's Father. 
 Collection: Dave Keller

Back in the early 1970's the LIRR was on a safety campaign much like today's Operation Lifesaver. This item is a book cover. Back in my school days we were required to cover our text books with either brown paper or an accepted book cover. They came to schools with a demonstration, and also gave out freebies to the students., one of which was the book cover pictured. How I managed to save it all these years is a miracle! I used it to cover my Electrical Installation notebook. I attended a vocational high school and it seemed appropriate for me to use a LIRR book cover, as I was a railfan even back then, on my way to becoming an electrician.  

Collection and Info: Mike Kubiak

The illustrations on both these iitems, and most of the LIRR's art through the '70 and '80's, was drawn by Don Malone.  He had a trademark way of drawing people's hands. Note the kid waiting at the railroad crossing and compare it with any of Don's drawings. 

Don worked in Public Affairs back when it was called Public Relations and had a staff of three. 

He also illustrated the guy and gal holding the lantern in the Book of Rules' hand signals. When he had originally made the drawings in 1982, the characters had "flood water pants" on. Don thought that was funny. 

Transportation's Superintendent at the time, Pete Roche, said "Hay Don, what the h*ll's with the flood pants." He made them longer, and to this day in the illustrations you can see where he lenthened them.  

Don's son had become a block operator.  Currently,  Public Affairs employs over 80 and has to pay an outside artist.  The Long Island Tool

LIRR Freight Brochure reverse side 05/86
Archive: Paul Strubeck