REPUBLIC
REPUBLIC: OPENED: 12/9/1940 AS
PLATFORM ONLY, TO SERVICE EMPLOYEES OF REPUBLIC AVIATION. WOODEN SHELTER
SHEDS ERECTED 12/1941. NO AGENCY ESTABLISHED. OUT OF SVC: 10/27/86 DUE
TO RONKONKOMA ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT AND MINIMAL RIDERSHIP.
DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: 10/27/1986 AND RAZED THEREAFTER.
2ND DEPOT WAS PLANNED (2014) TO BE BUILT AND STATION STOP REOPENED.
NOT YET BEGUN AS OF START OF 2020. Research: Dave Keller
Farmingdale to Republic Station - Emery Maps MP30-32
6/1958 -
Archive: Dave Keller
PW Interlocking - View E from 2 track. In the distance is PW
block station
6/03/1972 - Photo/Archive: Richard F. Maske
Note: J. W. Robinson & Sons sand pit at left.
Former Sikorsky plant, (right) purchased by Republic Co. 1942
Republic siding - Boeing 747 parts delivery
6/03/1972 - Photo/Archive: Richard F. Maske
Republic Station and new 1942 siding to Republic Aviation Corp.
View W 6/03/1972 - Photo/Archive: Richard F. Maske
Republic Station Shelter view E 1970 - signal distant in view "PW" block
signal and the end of double track. - Info/Photo/Archive: Dave Keller
Republic Station - View W 6/03/1972
Photo/Archive: Richard F. Maske
Republic Station Shelter view E at Route 110
c.1970+ - Photo/Archive: Art Huneke
GP38-2 #253 westbound flying through Republic Station in June of 1985.
The station will be soon closed with the coming Main Line electrification to Ronkonkoma project.
Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersky
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
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 (per Steve Quigley data) WITH THE START OF DOUBLE
TRACKING OF THIS SEGMENT OF THE MAIN LINE. Research: Dave Keller
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.
Pinelawn Station 3/1967 (Sturm-Fehn)
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
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
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
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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)
Pinelawn Emery Map MP32-33 6/1958
Archive: Dave Keller
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 2/05/2005
Photo/Archive: Joe Tischner
Pinelawn Station view SW 8/10/2016
Photo/Archive: Edward Hand
Pinelawn Station view E from Wellwood Ave. 12/08/2017 Photo: Dave Morrison
Pinelawn Station view W from Wellwood Ave.
12/08/2017 Photo: Dave Morrison
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