LIRR Pinelawn

Pinelawn - Republic Station	Pinelawn Station 3/1967 (Sturm-Fehn)	Ticket - Pinelawn to Farmingdale on-way excursion return c.1901+ Archive: Brad Phillips Note: Ticket signed by Howard Mapes Smith (served the LIRR from 1848 - 1919+?) and was appointed LIRR Traffic Manager 4/2/1888 and later to General Passenger Agent on 4/12/1901.
Ticket - Weekly Jamaica to Republic 12/22/1947 Archive: Brad Phillips	Ticket - Woodside to Republic General Pass. Agt. (GPA): C.G. Pennington 9/1943+ Archive: Brad Phillips	Ticket - Pinelawn to NY Penn Station 1953+ Archive: Brad Phillips
PINELAWN: 1ST DEPOT OPENED: c. 1895-1897 AS “MELVILLE” ON N.W. SIDE OF WELLWOOD AVENUE. LISTED ON TIMETABLES AS FLAG STOP. THEN AS “PINELAWN (MELVILLE)” IN TIMETABLE OF JUNE, 1898. LISTED AS “PINELAWN” IN TIMETABLE OF 1899. 2nd DEPOT BUILT: 1915, CLOSED: 1925 AND RELOCATED TO S.E. SIDE OF WELLWOOD AVENUE. OPENED AT NEW LOCATION: 1925. AGENCY CLOSED: 19 ? . IN 1960s, AGENCY OPENED ONCE A YEAR ON MEMORIAL DAY. (Brad Phillips data). AGENCY PERMANENTLY CLOSED: ? DEPOT GREATLY REMODELED AND 101 LONG COVERED BRICK PLATFORM ADDED: 1977. REOPENED AS A SHELTER ONLY. DEMOLISHED: 12/2017* (* Steve Quigley Data) WITH THE START OF DOUBLETRACKING OF THIS SEGMENT OF THE MAIN LINE. Research: Dave Keller
The old depot and admin building taken c. 1908. Archive: Dave Keller A birds-eye view from 1909 Archive: Art Huneke	Roundtrip Ticket Pinelawn to LI City, 34th Street Ferry Archive: Brad Phillips Howard Mapes Smith (1848-1919+?) was appointed LIRR Traffic Manager 4/2/1888 and later to GPA on 4/12/1901 It’s a sample (no serial number), for a single organization (Greenlawn Cemetery Assn.), and an excursion ticket good on only one day, probably for Decoration Day (now Memorial Day). Interesting note: The return ticket had to be validated by the agent at Pinelawn! Info: Brad Phillips
PINELAWN CEMETERY: BUILT AT THE THEN AMAZING COST OF $135,000, BUILDING CONSISTING OF GENERAL OFFICES, MORTUARY CHAPEL AND LIRR TICKET OFFICE OPENED: 8/30/1904. FANCY TICKET OFFICE LOCATED IN THE MAIN LOBBY. IT WAS SAID THE TICKET OFFICE WAS NEVER PUT IN SVC. BUILDING REMAINED IN SERVICE FOR CEMETERY BUSINESS UNTIL IT WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE ON 4/04/1928 (Per NY State Supreme Court document). STONE WALLS STILL STANDING AS LATE AS 12/27/1939 (Photo provenance). ARCHED PORTICO AT STATION PLATFORM AND COVERED WALKWAY EXTENDING BACK TO WHERE BLDG. ONCE STOOD STILL STANDING AS LATE AS 1960 (Photo provenance). ARCHED PORTICO AND CONCRETE STATION PLATFORM STILL STANDING UNTIL ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT BEGAN IN 1985 (Photo provenance). 1928 Newspaper Article Research: Dave Keller
Pinelawn Cemetery station/admin. bldg. (View NE toward Wellwood Ave.) - c. 1910 View after the April, 1928 devastating fire Photos: Dave Keller archive
The 1904 Pinelawn Cemetery station/administration bldg. and chapel after the April, 1928 devastating fire. View SE. Archive: Dave Keller The covered portico at the LIRR station platform is visible at the far right. The portico remained standing until the electrification project of 1985 when it was removed along with the original station platform. Research: Dave Keller	Pinelawn Station Cemetery portico along with the original platform as it looked in 1968. (Dave Keller photo and archive)
PW CABIN: WEST OF PINELAWN (END OF DOUBLE TRACK) (NORTH SIDE OF TRACKS. IN SERVICE: 8/1918. APPEARS IN ETT #88 EFF: 10/18/1918. MOVED TO S. SIDE OF TRACKS. UNATTENDED BLOCK STATION SIGNAL IN SVC: 5/23/1928 [?]. PERMISSIVE BLOCK ASPECT ADDED TO BLOCK SIGNALS: 6/25/1928. BLOCK AND UNATTENDED BLOCK STATION OUT OF SVC: 7/29/1930. AUTOMATIC BLOCK CONTROLLED BY “B” INTERLOCKING STATION IN SVC: 7/29/1930. UNATTENDED BLOCK SIGNAL AGAIN IN SVC: 11/1/37. AGAIN MANNED 1943-1946 TO HANDLE TROOP TRAIN MOVEMENTS DURING WW II.) AFTER TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE, IT WAS REPLACED BY A SWITCH TENDER'S SHANTY AND AN IDENTIFYING SIGN ON A POST WITH THE CALLS "PW." Research: Dave Keller
Switch tender's Cabin - PW Call Letters looking east west of Pinelawn - 1970 (Dave Keller photo and archive)	Possible temporary "PW" block station or switch tender's cabin looking NE - 8/1986 (Jay Bendersky photo and archive)
The structure above left appears to be a typical switch tender's shanty on the site of the former block office cabin at "PW" interlocking. Possibly a switch tender threw the manual switch to access both the 98-car capacity Pinelawn siding, the wye and team tracks north of the tracks and east of New Highway. Note the chimney, indicating a stove to keep the manned cabin warm inside as well as the large propane tank at the left to fuel it. It probably housed the "T" box for freight crews to report their train "in the clear" for meets with passenger trains. A temporary block station WAS established during the 1986-87 electrification project to Ronkonkoma, and while this shanty (above left) was not it, (I photographed it in 1970), the newer shanty (above right) has replaced the earlier structure and may very well have been the temporary block station. Or . . . it may have simply been a replacement switch tender's cabin. Note: These photos are NOT of the same structure and the "PW" call letters on the signpost are in different locations. Research: Dave Keller
Pinelawn-Republic Station Emery Map MP31-32 06/1958	/ Pinelawn Emery Map MP32-33 06/1958
LIRR Farmingdale map 1966 Page 63	LIRR Farmingdale map 1986 Page 49 Archive: Jeff Erlitz
H16-44 #507 Cemetery Train westbound Station Pinelawn Old Cemetery station at left view NE 1960 (Rugen-Keller)	Remains of the Pinelawn Cemetery station-administration building's porte cochere and crumbling concrete station platform looking west from Wellwood Ave. - 1968 (Dave Keller)
LIRR C420 #223 Greenport eastbound Train #204 at Pinelawn 1969 Photo/Archive: Brad Phillips Note: B&O closed-end observation car "Nappannee" which the LIRR got in trade for the one remaining BUDD RDC 2 that survived the Holtsville wreck in 1967. Info: Dave Keller	Pinelawn Station view E 02/05/2005 Photo: Joe Tischner
Pinelawn Station view E from Wellwood Ave. 12/08/17 Photo: Dave Morrison	Pinelawn Station view SW 8/10/2016 Photo: Edward Hand
Republic Station Shelter view E 1970 - signal distant in view "PW" block signal and the end of double track. Info/Photo: Dave Keller	Republic Station Shelter view E at Route 110 c.1970+ Photo: Art Huneke
This one was taken of a westbound flying through Republic Station in June of 1985. The station will be soon closed with the coming Main Line electrification to Ronkonkoma project. Hopefully, there will be a station here again sometime soon. Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersky	Pinelawn Station view W from Wellwood Ave. 12/08/2017 Photo: Dave Morrison
Republic Station stairway - Route 110 12/09/2017	Republic Station View W - Route 110 12/09/2017
Republic Station View E - Route 110 12/09/2017	Republic Station View S - Route 110 12/09/2017
Pinelawn Wye Yard - New Highway
PNC -GP9 #1701 Pinelawn, New Hwy Yard 6/1974 Photo: Ellis Simon	Pinelawn Wye - Bogies view NE 7/1989 Photo: Chuck Yungkurt
Pinelawn Wye LIRR MP15 #155 - View SE 1995 Photo/Archive: Steven Lynch	Pinelawn Wye Bogie crane LIRR hack view SE 8/1995 Photo: John Fusto MORE LIRR Bogies
C420 #226 at Pinelawn 6/1986 Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersky	LIRR #150 & #155 wait at Republic Yard/Pinelawn in East Farmingdale for their next crew, the RF-64, to go on duty and start switching. August, 1987 Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersky
C420 #223 at Pinelawn 1987 Photo/Archive: Dan Marra