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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 |
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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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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