LIRR Ore Cars - Close Up 12/06/99
Photo: John McCluskey
Early LIRR Ore Cars Archive: Dave Keller
Steam Crane Ore Cars 65th St. 3rd Ave Bay Ridge
11/07/1909
Camelback Ore Cars 3rd Ave Bay Ridge Yard 1917
G52 114 Ore Cars Bay Ridge Branch Construction
Ore Car Fulton St. Tunnel Construction East NY
1913
Ore cars BRT Portal Sea Beach Line 5th Ave Bay
Ridge 1917
LIRR Ore Cars - Ore Jennies
They were used in removing tunnel boring excavated rock from the Third City Water Tunnel, Queens section.
Cars numbered by my observations:125 cars, 4001 to 4126 Queens Tunnel Bore 06/11/97
Photo: John McCluskey
Loaded
out in Maspeth where the LIRR used to have a freight house on Grand
Avenue. There was a ban on shipping this material by truck from the Queens
job site, so the railroad got the business.
LIRR #104 08/13/97
Photo: John McCluskey
Hampton Materials and Handling
Bridgehampton 07/1995
Photo: Thomas Collins
Archive: Dave Keller
Hampton Materials and Handling
Bridgehampton 02/1996
Photo: Thomas Collins
Archive: Dave Keller
Hampton Materials and Handling
Bridgehampton 07/1995
Photo: Thomas Collins
Archive: Dave Keller
They went caput a short time after. Did not pay the bill
to the railroad. Freight job RF7 from LI City went out with the ore
jennies. They received Conrail hopper cars of 1/4 inch bluestone also when
freight job RF70 went out and did Pulver gas which is just east of there
on the DEF....(double end freight)
Research: Don Fischer
Former
CN and BN cars. The LIRR sold them to LS&I who shortened the cars. LIRR Ore Cars sold to LS&I 10/06/2001 Photo: Mike Ellis
One of the un-rebuilt Long Island ore cars LIRR
#4072 sits with the set used for re-claimer service (picking up spilled
pellets on the roadbed) 12/10/08
Info/Photo: Robert Welke
One of the un-rebuilt Long Island ore cars LI #4034 at Eagle Mills
12/10/08
Photo: Robert Welke
At Eagle Mills (LS&I shops). The cars have to be
narrowed 8 inches otherwise they cannot pass each other on the Presque
Isle dock.
Photo: Robert Welke
LIRR "Ore Car" Train Movement Notice #27-97 07/17/97 Collection: Paul Strubeck
LIRR #4001 08/13/97
Photo: John McCluskey
LIRR #4002 12/06/99
Photo: John McCluskey
LIRR #4011 06/96
Photo: John McCluskey
LIRR #4056
Photo: John McCluskey
Cars
extensions for use in hauling taconite pellets.
Not as dense as iron ore.
LIRR #4156 HO Scale Model
String of cars in Yard A were
bad order cars/part sources
for the rest of the fleet. They
got scrapped when the others
were sold. LIRR #4044
Photo: Robert Andersen
LIRR #4023
LIRR #4064
LIRR #4088
Photo: John McCluskey
LIRR #4096
Photo: John McCluskey
LIRR #4118
LIRR #4123 12/06/99
Photo: John McCluskey
LIRR #4126 05/99
Photo: John McCluskey
LIRR Ore Consist 08/97
Photo: John McCluskey
LIRR #157 02/28/97
Photo: John McCluskey
NYA #105 05/15/99
Photo: John McCluskey
I'd have to do some research on these cars for their predecessor information, but I can tell you they were referred to in the LIRR timetable as
ore cars and were called ore jennies by the crews.
The entire fleet was transferred to the New York & Atlantic Railway in 1997 and at the time were being used for the GROW tunneling project in Maspeth. The rock that was removed to build the tunnel was transported to Prima Asphalt in
Holtsville, NY. For most of the first few years of the NYA, this was a unit train that ran weeknights (and sometimes on weekends).
One small item though. The tunneling operation was year
round. We did not stop during the winter for maintenance. The trains did
slow down but did not stop. The Contractor was always upset when the
railroad would run slowly, as we would get "muck bound" very
quickly and he would be screaming to get switched or for more empty cars.
Info: John McCluskey
Before the freight transfer, LIRR also used the cars to service Hampton Materials in Bridgehampton and for a sand
project just east of
Speonk. Research: Jay Eichler
The fleet went to the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad and are back in Ore service.
(LS&I RR)
Research: John McCluskey and Paul Strubeck
