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Passenger
Ferry Service from Oyster Bay, NY to Wilson Point, CT
Spring 1892 two daily passenger trains. Eliminated by Winter 1893.
Source: Paul Strubeck
Oyster Bay Station
(map 3)
Sam Berliner's
OB Station Details
OB Turntable
(map 4)
OB photos
compliments of Friends of Loco #35, Inc.
Oyster Bay table looking south.
Alco
RS1 #461on the turntable and G5
Photo: Henry Maywald
01-23-55
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Oyster Bay Map NMRA bulletin 2/66
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Engine House-D56s - G5s #21 1926
Collection: Dave Keller
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 Class 80P81
pass tender
water gallon capy: 81,000 coal lbs. capy: 34350
weight empty: 76700 weight loaded: 178550
Tender #107 assigned to Class H10s 2-8-0 #105 taking on water for filming of Floyd Gibbons' "True Adventure Stories" Oyster Bay Sept 6-7, 1937
Photo: J.P. Sommer Collection: David Keller
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Oyster Bay Turntable 04/02/1965
Photo: Pat Scopelliti
Oyster Bay Turntable
01/08/2008
Photo: Dave Morrison
Oyster
Bay’s Historic Turntable
Article
Part I by Walter Karppi from:
The FREEHOLDER - Spring 2001 issue.
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Oyster
Bay Historical Society
Part II by David D Morrison from:
The FREEHOLDER - Fall 2006
issue. Article: "Oyster Bay Railroad Museum Brings Tourists to Oyster Bay"
Oyster
Bay "Enterprise Pilot" article 07/19/2007
Note:
Interesting artist renditions of restored Oyster Bay Station and
Turntable
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Topographic Map |
Yard Throat looking toward
the station (west). Track running across foreground is cutoff
leading to the turntable.
(map 1) Photo: J. Nelsen |
Oyster Bay Yard looking
east toward turntable.
Cutoff track seen in photo
(left) is in near foreground.
(map 2) Photo: J. Nelsen |
SE view April '53.
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Scenes
From the Past:
Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay
by Dave Keller
1928 Jakobson Shipyard
Jakobson Switch 1940
T. Sommer photo
D. Keller Collection
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OB Station 1953
1928 Yard Area
Oyster Bay Lumber 1928
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Long Island Coal Co. 1953
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LIRR #228 LIST
fan trip Oyster Bay 11/09/1969 Photo: Joe Testagrose
The
fan trip would be 1970 or, perhaps, a year earlier, as the equipment
began to appear on the property in 1968-69 and the B&O closed
observation “Nappannee” (which was traded for the LIRR’s BUDD RDC2
#3121) was repainted and renamed by 1971.
Info: Dave Keller
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Engine #141 at the water tank 06/19/1938
Post Cards provided by
David Morrison |
1950 LIRR P-54 Passenger Car Capacity
Click for  Sam
Berliner's Oyster Bay Station Details Col. Roosevelt |
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Dedication sign at entrance to
Roosevelt Park
OB dock crane |
Mill Creek Bridge - West of town
Railroad sign advising
long trailer load warning |
Engine #35 on the Move
Again
Jakobson's Marine 1/4 Turntable |
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Oyster Bay Turntable Alco C420
#211 04-02-1965 Photos: Pat Scopelliti
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1/17/2004 - new information about the Oyster Bay station contributed by
Gary Farkash (past president of the Friends of Locomotive 35)
The Oyster Bay
Station is actually the original 1889 structure. Dave Morrison and I
found this information in the 1889 LIRR Annual Report. We also found a
drawing of the station in a book printed for the LIRR back in the late
1880’s.
In 1902 the
original structure was remodeled by the addition of the bathroom section
as well as a brick fireplace on the same end.
The varnished
chestnut was painted over in a sea foam green color and the roof
reworked.
Also, all the
gingerbread trim was removed as was the Porte cocher. The prominent bay
window on the street side was added as well.
The Operator’s Bay
on the track side is original to the structure. The original structure
bears remarkable similarities to the Newtown Depot (East Elmhurst) which
was built the same year.
Compare photos form
Ron Ziel’s Stations book and you can clearly see this. We will be doing
more research at the NY Public Library on this and on the architect.
H16-44 No.1508 1956
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LIRR donates historic train station to town
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BY BILL BLEYER
STAFF WRITER
Long Island Rail Road president James Dermody Friday donated the 1889
Oyster Bay station to the town as part of the process of creating a
railroad museum by 2008.
As the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum, the depot -- owned by the LIRR since
it was built -- will be restored to the way it looked in 1902 when it
was renovated when local resident Theodore Roosevelt was president. The
Town of Oyster Bay now owns the building and immediate surroundings, but
it will be managed by the restoration committee of the Oyster Bay
Historical Society.
David Morrison of Plainview, the committee chairman, said white paint
was stripped from the exterior bricks, wood trim was restored and
painted the original Essex green, and copper leaders and gutters
installed. Inside, they removed the partitions and second floor that
were added in later years.
"We want to restore it to the beautiful cathedral ceiling appearance it
once had," Morrison said. The museum will encompass the depot, the
turntable that reversed steam locomotives and Locomotive No. 35, the
LIRR steam engine that is slowly being restored by the same volunteers
who have been working on the station.
Copyright (c) 2005, Newsday, Inc. |
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FA-2 #600, #601, #609 06/10/78
Archive: McEnery
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FA-2 #602 and FA-1 #610 03-01-81
Photo: Tim Darnell
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Oyster Bay Schedule 09-17-39
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G5s Oyster Bay LIRR
#46 #34 #35 #23
1947 Photo: Ed Wittekind
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The old brick
building is the old freight house at Oyster Bay in 1964. Info: Dave
Keller
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Summer of 1972 Photo: Richard Glueck
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Oyster Bay Station
view W 1965
Archive: Dave Keller
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Yard Crew Shanty 1965
ex-Bunkhouse location
Archive: Dave Keller
A bunkhouse
in 1941 would have been either brick or wood. Not cement block.
This,
however, is a newer structure, possibly 1950s-style architecture,
replacing the 1941 structure indicated on Emery’s map.
But the
location is most definitely the same.
Emery
1958 Map note #9
is former water tower.
Note the old,
yellowed concrete slab to the left of the 1965 bunkhouse shot?
That is probably a remnant of the concrete foundation for the water
tower.
Research: Dave Keller
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R. Emery Oyster Bay Yard
07/1958
Location:
#9 Water Tower 1941-1956
#10 Bunk House New 1941
#11 Pump House 1941-1956
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LIRR #225 and trio
FA units Oyster Bay 11/1976 Photo: Tim Darnell
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10/14/07 Photo: DE30415
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The turntable restoration now at the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum’s
yard. 07/27/2008 Photo: JJ Earl
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