LIRR #55 D53bWhite Hats crew - Long Beach c.1890 Archive:
Art Huneke
The White cap was worn
by all train crew members (conductor, trainman, brakeman, collector, guard)
from c. 1908 to c. 1915. It was the summer issue cap used by both the
LIRR and the parent PRR.
Info: Dave Keller
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LIRR #195 MOW crane and crew
c.1910
Archive: Charles A. Althof |
LIRR #8 and crew c.1910 |
LIRR #3 Camelback and crew
Patchogue View NE from Depot c.1912
Archive: Dave Keller
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Rotary Snow #193
Patchogue Yard 1921 |
MU Babylon 1st Electric Train 1925
Archive: Dave Keller |
Hempstead MU Train Crew: Hussey, Rosenow, Anderson, Keating c.1938
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LIRR G5s #29 Last train and crew
to Wading River 10/09/1938 Archive: Dave Morrison
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G5s #28 Morris Park Shops
Photo: 4/08/1946 Archive: D. Keller |
DD1 #358 pulling freight
northbound of West Hempstead station headed for Country Life Press where it
joined the Hempstead branch when the line connected between Valley Stream
and Mineola. The freight brakeman had to flag each crossing and he appears
to be ready to hop on the steps for a ride to the next grade
crossing. 9/28/47 Archive: Dave Keller |
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H10s #117 Taking Water Hicksville 07-25-52
Archive: Dave Keller |
FM H16-44 #1506
Crew at Deer Park 1957 View west just east of Deer Park
Ave. Westbound train on main track receiving orders. Eastbound
train on passing siding waiting for the meet to occur. DK block
signals at right on north side of tracks. Info/Archive: Dave Keller
Photo: J. Krzenski Archive: Dave Keller |
Watchman lowering gates at
Broadway, Hicksville 1959 Archive: MTA |
FM CPA 20-5 #2006 at Montauk
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Track Crew at PD 1968
Archive: Dave Keller
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1975 LIRR booklet " Facts and Figures"
Photo: Joseph C. Farrington
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LIRR SW1001 #100 Fresh
Pond
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LIRR Alco S1 #415
westbound at Hempstead Ave-West Hempstead late 1950's Archive: Jim Gillin |
"Givin' the Highball" Overhead
structure is walkway from Metropolitan Ave. Likely, this is 4:52 from LIC,
that did local stops on lower Montauk. 6/89 Photo: A. J. Daly
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HALL Tower, Jamaica Operator
Arthur Huneke 9/1971
Block Operator Art Huneke works at his
desk at "HALL" tower, Jamaica, on a hot afternoon in September,
1971. Art held the 2nd trick (2nd shift) at "HALL" tower
for many years until his retirement in the mid-1980s. (Dave Keller
photo and archive)
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LIRR #35 G5s Engine Wipers
at
Morris Park Shops10/1942+
Archive: Ron Zinn
LIRR #49 G5s Engine Wipers
at
Morris Park Shops 10/1942+ Archive: Ron Zinn
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PRR #5387 leased K4s
4-6-2 Engine Wipers at
Morris Park Shops 1943
Archive: Ron Zinn
Morris Park Shops 10/1942
Photo: Roy Pinney Archive: Ron Zinn
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Employee G. DePiazzy at SG 1972
Archive: Dave Keller
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Babylon Station crews 3/05/2015 |
Mr. Met 4/13/2015 |
Gas Car #1134 Crew Sag Harbor 4/1939
Archive: Dave Keller
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Hillside track gang close-up view E 4/30/1931
Archive: Dave Keller
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Penn Station LIRR "Mini
Maids" c.1968
Photo: Hank Boerner |
The LIRR Mini-Maid program
was alive and well for several years. Women in the employ of the railroad
could volunteer to be fitted with a yellow mini-dress and work at public
affair functions from time to time. Hank and Lou (Big Dumb Lou; see photo
above) along with Don Malone of the Public Affairs department, all great
enthusiasts of both trains, women and mini-skirts in general came up with
the idea in 1968. Since most women on the railroad at the time were in the
clerical ranks, most of the Mini-Maids were clerks in their 20's.
In later years, long after the program ended some of the women moved on to
management jobs. One became the Secretary to the President, another a
planner, while yet another became a Trainmaster. At least one supervisor
recalled the Mini-Maid roster and would tease the women from time to time
about that rung in their ladder of success.
From the late 1940's through the early 1970's. the LIRR supported an
award-winning Public Affairs department which was quite the envy of
corporations across the country which would send their publicists to the
Railroad for ideas and training.
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MOW vegetation control 2016
MTA |
MOW vegetation control wood
chipping 2016 MTA
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