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LIRR Ore Cars - Close Up 12/06/99
Photo: John McCluskey

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
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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.  
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LIRR #104 08/13/97 
Photo: John McCluskey

Cars extensions for use in hauling taconite pellets. Not as dense as iron ore.
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LIRR #4156 HO Scale Model

Former CN and BN cars. The LIRR sold them to LS&I who shortened the cars.
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LIRR Ore Cars sold to LS&I 10/06/2001 Photo: Mike Ellis

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. 
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LIRR #4044 Photo: Robert Andersen

Research: John McCluskey

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LIRR "Ore Car"  Train Movement Notice #27-97 07/17/97
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LIRR #4001 08/13/97
Photo: John McCluskey

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LIRR #4002 12/06/99
Photo: John McCluskey

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LIRR #4011 06/96
Photo: John McCluskey

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LIRR #4023

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LIRR #4056
Photo: John McCluskey

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LIRR #4064

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LIRR #4088
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LIRR #4096
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LIRR #4123 12/06/99
Photo: John McCluskey
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LIRR #4126 05/99
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LIRR Ore Consist 08/97
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LIRR #157 02/28/97
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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).  Research:  Jay Eichler

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, we would get "muck bound" very quickly and 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