Port Jefferson Branch
Built:  Hicksville to Syosset, by Hicksville & Cold Spring Branch R.R.: 1854, which was then leased to LIRR and eventually acquired by the LIRR: 1863
Built:  Syosset to Northport, by the LIRR: 1868 (became the end of the “Old Northport” spur.)
Built:  Northport Junction to Port Jefferson, by the Smithtown & Port Jefferson R. R. Co. (LIRR subsidiary): 1870
Built:  Port Jefferson to Wading River by the LIRR Co. North Shore Branch (LIRR subsidiary): 1895
First train: Smithtown to Port Jefferson: 11/12/1873
Doubletrack: Hicksville to “S” cabin, Syosset: 1911-12, Syosset to “S” cabin (MP 31): 1914 (“S” cabin was moved from Syosset to MP 31: 1914)
All block limit signals once had semaphores with the exception of “MI” and “WG.”
Unattended block signals added at “SJ,” “BK,” “AU,” and “JF”,  PRR “K” card system new: 5/1928
Abandoned:  MP 58 east of Port Jefferson to Wading River: 10/9/1938
Last Day: Railway Express Agency service on Port Jefferson branch: 2/3/1961   Research: Robert Emery’s notes

Form-F Port Jefferson Branch timetable 6/13/1967

"DIVIDE" TOWER  

DIVIDE” TOWER: 1  HICKSVILLE - (PREVIOUSLY “HX”, “HN” TOWERS) (PORT JEFFERSON BRANCH AND MAIN LINE DIVIDE AT JUNCTION. 
LOCATED BETWEEN LEGS OF WYE, EAST OF STATION. RENAMED: 4/23/37. US&S 9 STATION TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTER CONTROL PANEL IN SVC:  10/7/61. 
TOWER OUT OF SVC: 11/13/62 WITH GRADE ELIMINATION.

DIVIDE” TOWER: 2   HICKSVILLE - NEW TOWER BUILT DIRECTLY BEHIND OLD TOWER DURING GRADE ELIMINATION. IN SVC:  11/13/62.  OUT OF SVC:  9/12/64. 
TRANS-CONTROL 19 LEVER 
CONTROL PANEL IN SVC:  9/12/64.  US&S 14 STATION TRAFFIC CONTROL CENTER CONTROL PANEL IN SVC: 9/12/64

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Emery map Hicksville-Divide Tower  MP25-26
Archive: Dave Keller 
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FM C-liner eastbound hooping orders at DIVIDE 12/1954
Archive: Dave Keller
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DIVIDE Tower, Hicksville View SE 1962
Archive: Dave Keller
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LIRR 1966 Hicksville - Syosset  map #54 Archive: Dave Keller 
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DIVIDE Tower The new tower under construction  - RS3 #1559 
on temporary tracks View E 04/1963 Archive: Dave Keller
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DIVIDE Tower The new tower under construction  - RS3 #1558 on temporary tracks View W 04/1963 Archive: Dave Keller

Port Jefferson Branch - Divide Track profile map 1994

FM CPA20-5 #2004 and train railroad eastbound (tracks actually ran northbound at this point) on the Port Jefferson branch between Hicksville and Syosset, approaching the Northern State Parkway overpass from which the photo was taken looking SE (railroad west) on July 10, 1953.  Miller Road/Place is off to the left.  (George E. Votava photo, Dave Keller archive)
 
 
LANDIA

LOW PLATFORMS IN SVC: 12/15/52 BOTH SIDES OF TRACK TO SERVICE EMPLOYEES OF CIRCLE WIRE (LATER CERRO WIRE). CLOSED: 10/3/1973

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Emery map Landia MP27-28 9/1957 Archive: Dave Keller 

 


Landia Station 10/26/2023 Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

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MU Railfan Extra eastbound at Landia Station 1970 
Archive: Dave Keller
(Edwards-Keller)
SYOSSET

Built: 1872 at Lockwood’s Grove, Far Rockaway  Moved: 9/1877 Greatly remodeled: 1944, Razed: 1948  2nd Depot Built: 1948 Research: Dave Keller


Syosset Station - View NW c.1915 Source: eBay

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Emery map Syosset MP29-30 1910, 1911-1914
Archive: Dave Keller

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Emery map Syosset MP29-30  9/1957
Archive: Dave Keller

 
Emery map Syosset MP30-31  9/1957
Archive: Dave Keller

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Syosset Station View S  c. pre-1910  
Archive: Tom Montalbano  From "A Syosset Scrapbook," courtesy of John Delin

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Syosset Station telegraph agents c.1910 Archive: Tom Montalbano
From "A Syosset Scrapbook," courtesy of John Delin


Syosset MP30-31 View E 6/15/1910 Archive: Bill Rugen-Queens Public Library
The sandpits provide fill for the 1910-1913 relocation and elevation of the
new Jamaica station and yard.

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Syosset Station View NE c.1912
From "A Syosset Scrapbook," courtesy of John Delin

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Syosset Station after remodeling 1944
Razed/Rebuilt 1948

 
H10s #107 westbound freight at Setauket -Winter 1952 (Krause-Keller)

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Ticket - Syosset to Cold Spring Harbor 12/03/62 
Archive: Brad Phillips
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Ticket - Syosset to Huntington 11/26/76 Archive: Brad Phillips

 

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Syosset Station view E winter 1961 Photo: Irving Solomon 
Archive: Brad Phillips 

LIRR #216 at Syosset 1968 - The high tension and third rail poles are in place, but the third rail is not yet boarded over, nor has the platform been elevated. Photo/Archive: Richard Glueck
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Syosset Station View W c.1970  Photo: Michael Mark
From "A Syosset Scrapbook," courtesy of John Delin
 
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Syosset Station - View SE 6/2018 Google maps
Syosset Station Improvement  Project - 2019
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Syosset Station construction - View E at Jackson Ave. 3/12/2019
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Syosset Station Improvements MTA/LIRR sign 3/12/2019
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Syosset shelter - View S 3/12/2019
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Syosset Station construction - View E at Jackson Ave rail crossing 3/12/2019
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Syosset Station construction - View S  3/12/2019
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Syosset Station construction - View SE 
Jackson Ave./Underhill Blvd. 3/12/2019
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Syosset Station construction - View W 3/12/2019
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Syosset Station construction - View W close-up 3/12/2019

Syosset Station - 6/12/2019

Photos/Archive: Dave Morrison

COLD SPRING HARBOR

BUILT: 12/1875 AS “WOODBURY.” RENAMED “COLD SPRING” ON 10/15/1880 PER G. O. #90.
MOVED EAST ACROSS COUNTY LINE TO PRESENT STATION LOCATION: 1903 (Scott Schultz Reference Librarian Cold Spring Harbor Library.)
RENAMED “COLD SPRING HARBOR” SOMETIME BETWEEN ETT #59 EFF: 11/3/1910 AND ETT #61 EFF: 6/28/1911 TO MATCH THE TOWN'S ACTUAL NAME,
WHICH WAS CHANGED IN 1826 TO AVOID POSTAL CONFUSION AS THERE ALREADY WAS A "COLD SPRING" IN UPSTATE N.Y.
DEPOT RAZED: 1948.
2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1948. AGENCY CLOSED: 12/10/96.  Research: Dave Keller

 
Cold Spring Harbor Station c.1902 Archive: Dave Morrison

 

Emery map - Cold Spring Harbor MP31-32
9/1957 Archive: Dave Keller

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"Woodbury" by Edward Lange

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Woodbury Station 1878 (Brainerd-Emery SUNY Stony Brook)

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Cold Spring Harbor G5s #33 Train #4613 2/02/1947 (Votava-Keller)

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LI Railroader - Cold Spring Harbor Station 7/1948 
Archive: Dave Morrison

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Cold Spring Harbor - FM H16-44 1505 east of station West Rogues Path c.1958 (LIRR Emery-SUNY Stony Brook)
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Cold Spring Harbor view E 1950's
Archive: Brad Phillips
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Ticket - Cold Spring Harbor and Syosset 
7/24/62  Archive: Brad Phillips

Alco #201 Cold Spring Harbor MP31 c.3/1964
Archive: Dave Morrison

FL9 #301 C1s Cold Spring Harbor station - 9/1994 Photo/Archive: Bill Mangahas

LIRR #505 Train #6668 eastbound at East Gate Drive approaching Cold Spring Harbor - View S  5/18/2020 Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz

LIRR C420 train American Flyer Osgood Bradley cars
at West Rogues Path - View SW 1968 
Photo/Archive: Richard Glueck

Cold Spring Harbor - "Cold Spring Hill" West Rogues Path - Red arrow indicates
 photos location on topographic map

LIRR C420 train PB57 combine and P54s (pings) at West Rogues Path view SW 1968Photo/Archive: Richard Glueck

LIRR C420 train P72s at West Rogues Path - View E
1968 Photo/Archive: Richard Glueck
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LIRR #512 Train #6609 westbound approaching 
Cold Spring Harbor station 3/09/2019 Photo/Archive: William J. Skeats
 
HUNTINGTON

HUNTINGTON STATION: BUILT 1868 (?) ON THE NW SIDE OF N.Y. AVENUE. CLOSED: 10/1909 WITH OPENING OF NEW DEPOT FURTHER EAST AND RAZED SOMETIME AFTER.
2ND DEPOT OPENED: 10/1909 ON THE NE SIDE OF N.Y. AVENUE. 
Archive/Research material: Dave Keller unless noted

 
Huntington Station 1906 Emery SUNY-Stony Brook


A coupon of a (probably 4 coupon) Brooklyn – Huntington excursion ticket. It’s stamped on the back but it’s a partial and is illegible. The signature sure looks like “S. Spencer” with a title of General Sup’t. 

Per Seyfried’s “The Cross-Island Line” the LIRR reached Huntington in 1868. Transportation to the village was by stage until the first horse car line opened on 7/19/1890 to great enthusiasm by the public. That would put the ticket in the range of 1868 through +/-1890. The stage line went out of business that same year.  Info/Archive: Brad Phillips

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Emery map MP34-35  9/1957 Archive: Dave Keller 

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The old Huntington Station located west of New York Avenue (Emery map 1957 location #7 map below), showing a crowd waiting for the New York train due to arrive at 10:12 am, June 9, 1907. Note the summer trolley at right and Petit's Grain and Feed Depot.  View NW

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 Huntington by Edward Lange



Huntington Trolley c.1925 - Emery SUNY-Stony Brook
 

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Huntington Belcher-Hyde map 1917
Archive: Dave Morrison


Huntington Station area drawing 1918
Emery SUNY-Stony Brook


Port Jefferson Branch - Huntington to Greenlawn
Track profile map 1994


Emery map MP35-36  9/1957 Archive: Dave Keller
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LIRR 1966 Huntington map #55

LIRR 1978 Huntington map Archive: Jeff Erlitz 
#5 Huntington Matl. -Nassau Suffolk Lumber
#6 Mars Cup (later Mars Sales)
#7 Kleet Lumber

East of Huntington Station hand-operated switch 353W
leading to Mars Cup, later Mars Sales - View NE  1/27/1979
Info/Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz
 
East of Huntington Station hand-operated switch 353W
leading to Mars Cup - View NE  11/08/1981
South Siding Extension under construction with Third rail on Main Track
being extended to 1000 feet east of Park Avenue placed in service 1/5/1982
Info/Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz

LIRR 1986 Huntington map Archive: Jeff Erlitz 

#5 Huntington Matl. -Nassau Suffolk Lumber
#6 Purchasing & Material
#7 Kleet Lumber

Grade Crossing Elimination Project 1909
Archive: Bill Ahern, whose grandfather was the construction foreman on the project, unless noted.

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Huntington Construction 1909 grade crossing (New York Ave. - Route 110) elimination. New station under construction in background. View E
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Huntington Construction 1909 grade crossing (New York Ave.) elimination. 
Old  station in background view W (left), New station view E (right). Archive: Tom Farell
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Huntington Construction 1909 grade crossing view S along New York Ave.
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Huntington Construction 1909 grade crossing elimination  horse team and construction worker.
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Huntington Construction 1909 grade crossing (New York Ave.) elimination.
Old station in background. View SW across Route 110.
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Huntington Construction 1909 grade crossing (New York Ave.) elimination. New station under construction. View NW.
Huntington Station Action
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LIRR #80 4-4-0 D55a westbound from Wading River.  View is NE from west of the depot, looking towards the depot 1904. Photo: Hal Fullerton  Archive: Dave Keller
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LIRR #39 G5s train eastbound at Huntington 1950 (Edwards-Keller)
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FA2 #603 Push-Pull train 604 Port Jefferson Shuttle eastbound at Huntington 7/26/72 LIRR #227 C420 
at power end

LIRR #205 at Huntington Station 1971
Photo/Archive: Richard Glueck

LIRR #611 at Huntington Station 1973
Photo/Archive: Richard Glueck
 
2nd Huntington Station - Opened October 1909
HUNTINGTON STATION
. BUILT: 1868 (?), CLOSED: 1909 2nd RELOCATED DEPOT OPENED: 10/1909
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Huntington Station Floor Plan Electric Railway Journal 1909 Archive: Unknown
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Huntington RR (Cross-Island Trolley) streetcar laying up at station - Huntington - 10/20/1909 View NE towards express house. (Dave Keller archive)
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Huntington Station colorized post card view S c.1910

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Huntington Station view W c.1914

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Huntington Station view NE c.1910
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Huntington Station view NE c.1940 
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Huntington Station view NE c.1915
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Huntington Station view NE c.1915 
Eastbound Express House in background
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Huntington Station colorized post card view S c.1920 
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Huntington Station in snow view W  5/23/1928+
Archive: Dave Keller
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Huntington Station view W 1940
Archive: Dave Keller
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Under construction westbound Express House  foreground and Huntington Station at "UN" block crossover 08/28/1951 View E Archive: Dave Keller
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Huntington Station "UN" Block crossover 8/28/51
close-up view E  Archive: Dave Keller

"UN" HUNTINGTON (1878 Book of Rules and 1903 CR4) (In ticket office Manual Block Signals in service: 9/8/1915 per ETT #79 (Art Huneke data). Unattended block station signal in service: 5/23/28. Permissive block aspect added to block signals: 6/25/28. Block signals relocated  260’ west of former location converted to position light signals: 2/16/59. Block station and block limit station limit signals Out of Service: 5/22/62) Research: Dave Keller

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Form 19 Train Order "UN" Huntington 10/30/1928
Archive: Dave Keller
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Form 19 Train Order "UN" Huntington 12/185/1932
Archive: Dave Keller

HUNT 1 Interlocking - View E about 3/4 mile west of Huntington Station. Here there are not one but TWO pedestal type position light signals mounted on what look like full-height (or nearly so) ground masts. This is almost 3/4 mile to the east of a point of curvatures so I see no visibility reason for mounting these pedestals so high. Funny how they HAD TO mount signal 1E to the left of the track governed (Track 1) when there is clearly enough clearance between the tracks to mount it there (as 2W signal is, just on the other end of this crossover!).
Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz  9/22/2020


Huntington Station DE30AC #402 arrives with Train #650
4/21/2022. The replacement of the east end pedestrian overpass is coming along nicely. View from the roof of the south garage. Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz

Huntington Express Houses and Freight Houses
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Huntington Freight Station View NE located west
 of New York Ave. 1969 Photo/Archive: Dave Keller
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Huntington Eastbound Express House located east of the station Valuation photo 10/03/1918. View NE Archive: Dave Keller
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Huntington Eastbound Express House View E from New York Ave. 11/04/1921 (LIRR-Huneke)
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Huntington Westbound Express House and Station View E from just west of New York Ave. girder bridge 11/04/21 (LIRR-Huneke)
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Huntington Westbound Express House
1942 View W  Photo: Unknown
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Huntington Westbound Express House 
View W 12/1962 Archive: Brad Phillips 
Huntington Shelter
Archive: Dave Morrison
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Huntington Shelter slate roof. View E late 1940s (Weber-Morrison)
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Huntington Shelter slate roof. View NW late 1940s (Weber-Morrison)
 

 

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Huntington Shelter drawing - side 10/16/1995

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Huntington Shelter drawing 10/16/1995
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Huntington Shelter drawing -front 10/16/1995
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Huntington Station Shelter 4/2013 view SW 
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Huntington Station Shelter 4/2013 view NW 
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Huntington Station Shelter 4/2013 view N 

This shelter was supposed to be demolished as part of the 1995 station renovation project. I was the Port Jefferson Branch Line Manager at the time. At a meeting with Capital Programs, I protested the shelter demolition, contending that the shelter should be restored and that it would then enhance the beauty of the entire project. Project Manager, Boris Gutman, agreed with me and had the shelter completely restored, putting on a new slate roof, re-staining the wood columns and repairing the stone walls. Well done Boris! 

Well, don't let any good dead go unpunished.  About a decade later, some dummy in the Engineering Department decided that the beautiful, natural-wood columns should be painted with white paint.  See the last three photographs.  What a shame!  Then, to add insult to injury, the paint has been allowed to peel and now the shelter looks horrible. Dave Morrison

Huntington Electrification

Huntington Station electrification project - MOW crew
c.7/1970 Photo: Harry Glueck Archive: Richard Glueck

High level platforms and third rail are in place, but the guard boards atop the third rail have not yet been installed. That's the last thing to do before turning on the juice.

As electrification was completed in October, 1970 and electric service having commended that month, this photo was most probably taken during the summer of 1970 (leaves all on the tree in the background), leaving the remaining several months to get the guard boards in place and the juice flowing. Dave Keller

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Huntington Electrification news article 10/22/70 Archive: Dave Morrison
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Huntington  Electrification ash tray project completion 10/13/1970 Archive: Dave Morrison

Huntington is presently the terminus of electrification on the Port Jefferson Branch. The project was extended from Mineola and completed October 13, 1970 with service commencing on October 19, and since then the station has become an intermediate transfer point for off-peak riders between electric trains to and from Penn Station and diesel scoot trains to Port Jefferson. 
Huntington Industries

LIRR #453 switching the team track Huntington 1971 Photo/Archive: Richard Glueck
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Kleet Lumber Huntington aerial view 2016

LIRR #453 switching Huntington - View E 1970
Photo/Archive: Richard Glueck
CENTERPORT/GREENLAWN

BUILT: 1868 AS "CENTERPORT" RENAMED "GREENLAWN." BURNED: 1909. 2nd DEPOT OPENED: 9/1911. AGENCY CLOSED: ?  Research: Dave Keller

 
Centerport Station c.1878 Photo: George Brainerd
Archive: Queens Borough Public Library

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Greenlawn by Edward Lange


Greenlawn Station original building c.1890

 

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Greenlawn Station original building c.1890
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Greenlawn Station - LIRR valuation photo 2/14/1918
Archive: Dave Keller
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LIRR 1966 Greenlawn map #56
 
Train #650 LIRR #271 eastbound at Greenlawn team track
8/1987 Photo/Archive: Jay Bendersk
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Greenlawn - Third rail test track for newly arrived 
DM Locomotives  view NW 5/22/1998
Archive: Dave Keller

Greenlawn Station entrance sign
6/12/2019 Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison


Greenlawn Station - REA sign 6/12/2019
Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison


Greenlawn Station - totem pole 6/12/2019
Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

Greenlawn Station interior - 6/12/2019
Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison


Greenlawn Station- View W 9/29/1995  - mural of old Shinnecock Hills Station  Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison


Greenlawn Station - pot belly stove 6/12/2019
Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

Greenlawn Station interior display 6/12/2019
Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

Greenlawn Station interior historic photo display 6/12/2019 Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

Greenlawn - LIRR #160-150 dropping rail west of the station. MTA PD is seen protecting the crossing, as the train was moving at a walking pace making frequent long stops.  11/13/2021 Photo/Archive: Thomas Farmer
OLD NORTHPORT BRANCH (Abandoned 1899)

BUILT: JAN-MAR/1868. IN SVC 04/25/1868 (Art. Huneke data) ETT #10, EFF: 06/28/1899 INDICATES LAST PSGR. SVC. (Art Huneke data)
ABANDONED: 10/17/1899. SPUR USED ONLY FOR FREIGHT SERVICE THEREAFTER
  Research: Dave Keller

The Hicksville & Cold Spring Branch Railroad was built from Hicksville to Syosset in 1854. It was leased to the Long Island Railroad, and sold to it in 1863. Syosset was at this time an important terminal, and people came from Huntington and Northport in their carriages down to Syosset to take the trains. A few wealthy members of the Jones family of Cold Spring Village, undertook the enterprise of grading the road to their village, which they did in 1862. This road enters Cold Spring along the west side of the stream and mill ponds. But after the line had been graded a dispute arose between the members of the Jones family and the Long Island Railroad as to the exact location of the terminal. As the parties could not agree, the railroad finally abandoned the idea altogether, and when the road was finally extended to Northport the route was a more inland one, leaving Cold Spring to the north.

In 1867 a right-of-way and depot site in Huntington had been granted by the town to the Long Island Railroad, but Oliver Charlick got into a dispute with certain landholders, and with characteristic obstinacy, refused to yield. The road fell through, the more liberal terms of Northport being accepted. The Long Island Railroad extended the branch to Northport Village, leaving Huntington Village to the north, in April, 1868. For quite a few years there was no station opposite Cold Spring, the passengers from that village being obliged to go to either Syosset or Huntington. This aroused the antagonism of the villagers to a great extent. Soon after, however, a station called "Cold Spring Harbor" was established at the small settlement of Woodbury.

The Long Island Railroad stimulated the building of a further extension by a subsidiary company, the Smithtown & Port Jefferson Railroad Company, in 1870. This extension left the old line at Northport junction, on the highlands back of Northport Village, and continued to Port Jefferson. The first station, known as East Northport, soon became known merely as Northport Station, the line into the village from Northport junction being abandoned. Research: Felix E. Reifschneider

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Northport Terminal 1878  Photo: George Brainerd
Archive: Brooklyn Public Library

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July 4, 1880 ETT shows "Old Northport" and "New Northport".  Train #505
ran as a passenger train to Old Northport then as a mixed train to Port Jefferson.
 
LIRR timetable from 1890 lists "Northport East Station",
"Northport", and "Northport Junction".

Emery Old Northport Branch 1906
Archive: SUNY Stony Brook

Emery Old Northport Junction
Archive: SUNY Stony Brook

Emery Old Northport Branch 1935
Archive: SUNY Stony Brook

1917 Belcher Hyde - Old Northport map
Northport Lumber & Coal Co., Railroad Ave

The original Northport LIRR Station had been closed in 6/28/1899 with the opening of East- Northport Station. The railroad spur to the original station was now relegated to a freight siding serving the Northport Lumber and Coal Co. The original station was north of 25A (Washington St) and west of Church Street (Railroad Ave.)

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Northport 1941 Hagstrom map

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Northport - Kings Park map - Henry Raudenbush  c.1950


Emery map - Old Northport Branch 5/1958
Archive: Dave Keller
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Northport Lumber & Coal Co. at Church St. 1941
Later
Axinn & Son's Lumber

Northport Lumber Co. at Church St.-View E c.1960's

Axinn & Son's Lumber at ex-Washington St. crossing (now Ft. Salonga Rd.- 25A) to the original Old Northport Station location. - View NE
 

LIRR 1978 Old Northport map Archive: Jeff Erlitz
Axinn & Son's Lumber Church St. sidings previously Railroad Ave
 

Axinn & Son's Lumber at ex-Washington St. crossing (now Ft. Salonga Rd.- 25A) to the original Old Northport Station location. - View SE c. 1978+  Currently a King Kullen Shopping Center; 2020.

 
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RDC's #3101, #-3121 Old Northport 9/1956 Special (Rugen-Huneke)
NORTHPORT

BUILT: MAY-JULY/1873. ALSO KNOWN AS "NEW NORTHPORT".  APPEARS ON ETT #10 EFF: 06/28/1899 AS "NORTHPORT (EAST STATION)." APPEARED ON 1901 TIMETABLE AS "NORTHPORT EAST." MOVED TO PRIVATE LOCATION: 1927. USED AS OFFICE FOR A SIGN COMPANY. RAZED: 1959.
2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1927  FREIGHT STATION MOVED HERE IN PIECES FROM CAMP UPTON WHEN LIRR ENDED OPERATIONS THERE AFTER 4/1922.
TICKET AGENCY CLOSED: 08/19/2009. STATION "HISTORICALLY REMODELED:" 01/2019  Research: Dave Keller

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Northport Depot  - View E by artist Edward Lange 1880

 

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Northport station as it looked c. 1910 with a 
Northport Trolley behind the depot.
Archive: Dave Keller
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Northport Station -  H3 2-8-0 #162 First train from 
Penn Station - Northport Traction #601 9/08/1910
Archive: Dave Keller
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Northport Station - Traction Car #602 c.1912
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Northport Station - View E c. 1927+ Archive: Jim Gillin

LIRR #111 Northport Station - View W 1952

Notes: The low-level platform (above) between the main track and the passing siding, similar to what was in place at the time at Smithtown. It was smart because it allowed passengers to board or get off the train if their train had
 to take the passing siding.  "NP" semaphore block signal relocated behind the photographer to east of the Larkfield Rd. crossing and converted to position light. Signal and block office out  of service in 1963.  Info: Dave Keller


LIRR #113 Northport Station - View E 1952
Photo: John Krause
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Northport MP39 - View E c.1950 Archive: Northport Public Library
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Northport Station original building in private use 1957
Archive: Dave Keller

Emery map - Northport MP38-39  9/1957
Archive: Dave Keller

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Emery map - Northport MP39-40 after 1955 9/1957
Archive: Dave Keller


East Northport MP40+ - VA Hospital siding new 1934 removed 1950
per Emery map below - 1947 USGS topographic map


Emery map - Northport MP40+ VA Hospital  9/1957
Archive: Dave Keller

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LIRR 1966 map - Northport map #57

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FA1 #616 westbound at Old Northport Junction
 View E 2/26/1977 (Madden-Keller)
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Northport Station - LIRR C-420 #207 - Train #4234 View W 
12/04/1974 Photo: Richard Makse
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ALCO FA1 #615 - Push-Pull train westbound on Bread and
Cheese Hollow Rd. Trestle 11/1980 (Mazzarone-Keller)

 


Northport Station - View W 2020

Northport Station - 6/12/2019 Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison


Northport East (LIRR 1901) )Trolley Stop Historical Marker
erected 1999 -  East Northport Chamber of Commerce


 Northport Traction Co. plaque  6/12/2019 Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

Northport Station interior - 6/12/2019
Photos/Archive: Dave Morrison
KINGS PARK

BUILT: NOV-DEC/1872 AS ST. JOHNSLAND. RENAMED “KINGS PARK”: 6/1891 (Per V. F. Seyfried) RAZED: 1948 2nd DEPOT BUILT: 1948. REMODELED: ? AGENCY CLOSED: ? 


 
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G5s #50 Train westbound at Kings Park State Hospital 
Station 3/1936 (Harrison-Keller)
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Kings Park station and "JO" unattended block station signals viewed east - c. 1934  (Jeff Winslow photo, Dave Keller archive)

 

Looking west at the old Kings Park station (above) on August 30, 1934, notice the station sign identifies the stop as "King's Park" using the possessive apostrophe.  As the manned block office closed in June, 1932, the "JO" unattended block station signals visible lower down on the signal mast trackside were used in conjunction with clearance ("K") cards.  Semaphore signals were no longer in use and the blades were removed from the mast sometime afterward.  This image shows that as of the date of this photo, the semaphore blades had been removed from the mast.  The boxcar at the far right was on the spur which once ran behind the depot and eastward to Kings Park State Hospital.  The distant water tower was just east of the start of the spur and the sight of the February 16, 1947 wreck of eastbound train #4612 pulled by PRR K4s #5406.  (Fred Weber photo / Dave Keller data).

 

Kings Park Hospital Spur
Emery Map 9/1957
Archive: Dave Keller 
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MP43-44 Kings Park Emery Map 9/1957
Archive: Dave Keller 

 

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LIRR 1966 Track Map #58 

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Wreck  at Kings Park
  2/16/47 Aerial view 
shortly after the wreck. Photo: Daily News
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H10s #113 freight backing onto hospital siding behind
Kings Park station 08/25/55 (Higginbotham-Keller)
 
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RS3 #1551 Train #4647 westbound at Kings Park
State Hospital Station 1964 (Schneider-Keller)

C40 #209 westbound at Kings Park
State Hospital Station (KPHS)  11/1969 (Emery-SUNY-Stony-Brook)
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RS-3 #1558 view E c.1964+

RS-3 #1560 in Goodfellow Gray view E Winter 3/25/1962
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Station view NE 01/1966 
Notice the LIRR MOW truck in the right background. It looks like an old REA truck, but it's got Dashing Dan in the round yellow circle. Also, look behind the depot at the left. There appears to
 be a hospital train laying up back there. Info/Archive: Dave Keller

LIRR #214 westbound - Bread & Cheese Hollow Rd.,  Kings Park 12/1966 (J.Guthrie -  Emery SUNY-Stony Brook)

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“FOX”  CTC Cabin west of Kings Park
Photo: Dave Keller 1969

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DOT GTE 4 car train westbound at Kings Park State Hospital Station 11/1977 (Madden-Keller)
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Kings Park Station - c.1980's view W
Photo: Fred Lindauer Archive: Steve Lynch
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C424 #218 at MP34 westbound
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C420 #223 "Smoking It Up" Photo: Mike Koehler c.1983
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Photo: Mike Koehler c.1983
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Indian Head Road view west C53 on the rear, 223 on 
the head end. Photo: Mike Koehler c.1983
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LIRR  #228 Kings Park State Hospital spur view taken from the hill south of Old Dock Road, looking N toward Patiky Street  c. 1985  Photo: Dave Flynn

Kings Park Station interior 6/12/2019 Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison
 
SMITHTOWN

BUILT: NOV-DEC/1872, CLOSED: 11/6/1936, WITH GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION OF ROUTES 25 AND 25A.  MOVED TO PRIVATE LOCATION: EARLY IN 1937.
2nd ELEVATED DEPOT IN SVC: 2/18/1937. REMODELED: 1987 WITH HI-LEVEL PLATFORM INSTALLATION. AGENCY CLOSED: ?


Smithtown Station view SE in 1878. The large structure to the right of the station is the Trainor Hotel, which was a very popular rest spot for travelers coming through on both by train, and by horse and buggy. The hotel unfortunately succumbed to a horrible fire on December 5, 1909 and was never rebuilt.
Photo: George Brainerd Archive: Brooklyn Museum Digital Archive
 

Smithtown Station, Express House and Freight House at far left. View is SE c. 1910
from the Rte. 25-25A crossing Archive: Carol Mills

Smithtown Station - View N c.1900
 Archive: Tommy Farrell
  
Riverside Inn - Nissequogue River, Smithtown view SW c.1900 Library of Congress
LIRR trestle embankment in left background
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Emery - Smithtown MP46-47 9/1957
Archive: Dave Keller

Smithtown - Semaphore D.S. & SI  MP46.5 Last month of a semaphore in service 12/1963 View NE
Photo/Archive: Art Huneke

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Emery - Smithtown MP47-48 pre-1937 9/1957

Archive: Dave Keller

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Emery - Smithtown MP47-48 post-1937 9/1957
Emery maps archive: Dave Keller




"LIRR Agrees To Find New Smithtown Freight Yard"
10/03/1968 - The Smithtown News

Railroad trestle in Smithtown, 1878

Smithtown wooden trestle location
1878 Emery map
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Smithtown wooden trestle view NE c.1890 
Archive: Emery SUNY
Booth & Arthur General Store on Jericho Turnpike (across from where the statue of the bull now stands) at the junction of Route 25A and Jericho Turnpike. It was also called the River Store and was operated by Ethelbert L. Arthur.
Research: David Bauer  Photo: George B. Brainerd  Archive: Brooklyn Museum
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Smithtown station 1878 view E Photo: George Brainerd
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Smithtown steel trestle LIRR class D56 American 4-4-0

Smithtown - LIRR Trestle at Frank Friede's Riverside Inn post card - View NW
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Smithtown station c.1878 Photo: George Brainerd 
Archive: Brooklyn Public Library
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Smithtown station 1903 view SE
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Smithtown station 1905 view N Archive: Tom Muratore
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Smithtown station 1906 view S
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Smithtown station c. 1905 Archive: Tom Muratore
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Smithtown station 4-4-0 class D16b and train westbound 
c. 1910 Archive: Tom Muratore
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Smithtown station winter 1925 view E
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Station Smithtown c. 1928 Archive: Maggie Land Blanck
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Smithtown station 1935 view SE

 

Once high-level platforms were installed at the station to handle the new push-pull service, the overhanging eaves trackside had to be cut back to allow for passenger clearance overhead, totally ruining the architectural lines of the depot building. When it was decided to eliminate the grade crossing in Smithtown and construct a new depot building, the old, original structure was moved south of the location to Lawrence Street to become a private residence. Info: Dave Keller

 

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Smithtown station 1942 View SE

POST” INTERLOCKING (R.C.) EAST OF SMITHTOWN (REMOTE FROM “DIVIDE”. IN SVC: 12/20/63. NAMED AFTER RETIRED SIGNAL DEPARTMENT CIRCUIT
ENGINEER HOWELL B. POST per The Long Island Railroader: 10/11/61. OUT OF SVC: 10/3/77. BECAME “POST 2” LOCATION.
“POST 1” INTERLOCKING (R.C.) WEST OF SMITHTOWN (REMOTE FROM “DIVIDE.” IN SVC: 10/3/77. FORMERLY “HARE”)
“POST 2” INTERLOCKING (R.C.) EAST OF SMITHTOWN (REMOTE FROM “DIVIDE.” IN SVC: 10/3/77. FORMERLY “POST”) Research: Dave Keller


POST  CTC Cabin at Smithtown 1969 operated remotely from "DIVIDE."  In 1977 it became "POST 2".
 Photo/Archive: Dave Keller

HARE CTC Cabin west of Smithtown 1969
In 1977 renamed "POST 1"
Photo/Archive: Dave Keller

LIRR FA2 #602 Smithtown within POST 2 Interlocking View E c.1982 Photo/Archive: David Flynn
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ex-Smithtown Station view N 2014 Archive: Google

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ex-Smithtown Station view W 2014 Archive: Google
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ex-Smithtown Station view W 1/04/2017 
Photo:  Mike Tarq
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Smithtown Rte.25-25A crossing shanty view E c.1935

According to my LIRR call letters history, "ST" block station had unattended block signals added in 1928.  The block office was taken out of service some time after that (I don't have a date, unfortunately), but placed BACK into service on 6/23/35.  

It remained in service until it was taken out of service on 11/6/36 and transferred over to a temporary block office south of the tracks for the grade crossing elimination project.

As this image shows the block signals in service AND the unattended block signals are attached to the mast at about mid-height, it's safe to say this image was photographed sometime between June 23, 1935 and November 6, 1936 and while I see NO activity indicating the start of the grade crossing elimination, and I see leaves on all the trees, I'd say Summer, 1935.  If it were Summer, 1936, then there would be signs of excavation. Research: Dave Keller

 

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Smithtown wood-framed station
1953  view SE
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LIRR 2-8-0 H10s crossing Smithtown trestle (P466) 
view E from Rte.25 1953
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LIRR #2401 FM CPA-24-5 (C liner) Smithtown 
view E 1955
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Smithtown MP47 view NE 11/23/43 at the turnout for the 37 car passing siding. Photo: Fred Weber
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Smithtown bridge over Rte.25-25A view SW 11/23/43
Photo: Fred Weber
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Smithtown station view SW Call box at left 10/08/43
Photo: Fred Weber
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Smithtown station view SW - whistle post at left and LI Ice Corp. far left 10/08/43
Photo: Fred Weber
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LIRR #113 H10s freight meet with superior passenger class LIRR #38 G5s westbound Smithtown view E 1951 Photo: Norman Kohl
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LIRR caboose #14 on the Smithtown passing siding view NW 1952
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It's a little past noon, one mild February day in 1953 and the place is Smithtown. As LIRR H10s No. 107 takes the side track, the rear brakeman swings off the caboose step to reset the switch for the main track (above left). That done, the seven-car peddler freight pulls up toward the station (center view SW). Finally, in classic conjunction of the steam and diesel ages, a youthful Fairbanks-Morse LIRR H16-44 No. 1506 breezily overtakes the veteran workhorse. The engineer's oilcan, seemingly at attention, and long skirts on mother and daughter add memorable ingredients to this bygone moment (right view NE) Photos: John Krause  Material above courtesy of Dave Morrison; except as noted.  This fourth tank constructed AFTER the 1936-37 grade crossing elimination east of the elevated depot on the north side per Krause's photo (2/1953). Research: Dave Keller

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First tank west of the depot in Brainerd's c. 1880 view E
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Second tank east of the depot in the c. 1890 colorized view SW  
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Third tank across from the 1903 depot on the north side
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Smithtown - Northport Ticket 11/05/1963 
Archive: Brad Phillips
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LIRR #35 taking water  10/16/1955
Photo: Walter Broschart  Archive: Dave Morrison

Note: LIRR G5s #35 and final "Steam Special" at Smithtown Station ready to depart on the very last LIRR steam train run, October 16, 1955.


LIRR 1966 Smithtown Map #59
ST. JAMES

ST. JAMES: OPENED: 10/1873, AGENT'S QUARTERS LOCATED ON SECOND STORY.  PART TIME AGENCY PER "L.I.R.R. TICKET OFFICES OPEN FOR SALE OF TICKETS" OF 9/12/55. DEPOT RESTORED: 1964. CONSTRUCTION OF 12-CAR-LENGTH HI-LEVEL PLATFORM WITH SHELTERS BEGUN: MID-AUG, 1986.
COMPLETED BY
YEAR'S END. (Derek Stadler date of installation of latter).
AGENCY
CLOSED: 9/6/96. EXTERIOR RESTORED TO ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR REMODELED NON-HISTORICALLY: 1997.  Research: Dave Keller

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Westbound steam at St. James  
March 1953 Photo: John Krauss

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Emery map St. James MP49-50 09/1957
Archive: Dave Keller 

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Freight-Express House LIRR H10s #113 Freight West St. James 8/25/55
(Higginbotham-Keller)

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LIRR 1966 map page 59 Smithtown, St. James, Flowerfield Stations

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St. James restoration 09/14/08 Photo: Mike McDermet

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St. James view NE 1978 Photo: Steven Lynch
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St. James view N 1993
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St. James view NW 2010 Source: Wikipedia
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                   LIRR St. James Station Historical Restoration Project Booklet March 21, 1997 Newsday "St. James station to be restored" 3/22/1997
Archive:  Dave Morrison


St. James Station 3/2017


St. James Station 6/12/2019

St. James Station doorway 3/2017, 6/12/2019 below

St. James Station window 3/2017, 6/12/2019 below
Photos/Archive: Dave Morrison
FLOWERFIELD

OPENED: 1909-10. AGENCY CLOSED: BETWEEN 10/10/43 (ETT #5) AND 6/11/44 (ETT #6)
DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: 1958, RAZED: 7/59
  Research: Dave Keller


Flowerfield Map 1934 - Emery SUNY-Stony Brook

 

MORE Flowerfield Station


CPA24-5 #2404 Train #621 westbound past Flowerfield Station
8/26/1955 (Higginbotham-Keller)
 
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Flowerfield Station View N 4/1958 Archive: Dave Keller  
STONY BROOK

BUILT: 1873, GREATLY REMODELED: 1917. CONSTRUCTION OF HI-LEVEL PLATFORMS WITH SHELTERS BEGUN: 3/88. TRACK REALIGNMENT RESULTED IN RELOCATION OF S. PLATFORM WHICH WAS PLACED IN SVC: 11/14/88. N. PLATFORM WITH SHELTERS COMPLETED: SPRING/1989. TEMPORARY WAITING ROOM AND TICKET OFFICE SET UP IN TRAILER DURING RENOVATION OF OLD DEPOT. EXTERIOR RESTORED TO ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR REMODELED NON-HISTORICALLY. AGENCY CLOSED: 9/7/96. NEW SHELTERS CONSTRUCTED: 11/2008 TO EARLY 2009. (Derek Stadler research re: Shelters)

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Stony Brook c.1905 view NE


Stony Brook c.1905 view E- Freight on siding at Bayles Lumber Yard
Archive: Tom Farrell

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Stony Brook Station - BK Signals 1937 Photo/Archive: Votava-Keller
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Emery map - Stony Brook 9/1957
Archive: Dave Keller 

Stony Brook MP53 - View NE 1/13/2021
Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz
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Stony Brook 1905 
Photo: Greene Archive: Dave Keller
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Stony Brook c.1930 (James V. Osborne- Keller)
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Stony Brook Station 1943 Archive: LIRR
Note: Freight Station and high platform razed.
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Stony Brook Baggage Wagon c.1950 Archive: Dave Keller
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Stony Brook Semaphore Signals Baggage Wagon c. 1950 Archive: Dave Keller
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Stony Brook view NW 8/1971
Photo/Archive: Dave Keller
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Stony Brook view NE 7/1986 
Photo: John Fusto
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Stony Brook view E 7/1986 
Photo: John Fusto
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LIRR FA1 #616 Push Pull train #55 #260 at power end
Port Jefferson-Huntington Shuttle view W Stony Brook 6/05/1978 GP38-2 Archive: Dave Keller

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LIRR #164 work train east of Stony Brook view W Fall 1988 
Photo: John Volpi

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Stony Brook LIRR F7 #622 view E View E 06/1994 Archive: Dave Keller

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Stony Brook Station track project view E 1988 Photo: John Volpi

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Stony Brook track project view E 1988 Photo: John Volpi

 

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LIRR #251 work train west of Smithtown station view W
Fall 1988 Photo: John Volpi

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LIRR work train pulling into Smithtown station view E
Fall 1988 Photo: John Volpi


Stony1 Interlocking - Home signal 1W Main & 2W on siding
View SE 1/13/2021 Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz
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LIRR 1966 map Stony Brook Setauket Page 60

Stony2 Interlocking east of station Home signals 2E
on siding 1E on Main - View NE 1/13/2021
Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz

Stony Brook c.1964 Photo/Archive: Ed Bacher

Stony Brook BK #645 in the siding meets #658
7/20/1967 Photo/Archive: Richard F. Makse

LIRR #216 at east end of BK - Stony Brook 1971
Photo/Archive: Richard Glueck

Stony2 Interlocking Home signal 1W - View SW
1/13/2021 Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz

Stony1 Interlocking - Home signal 1E west of Stony Brook station
View NE 1/13/2021 Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz

Stony Brook Station - 2021 Photo/Archive: George H. Lightfoot III


Stony Brook Station 6/12/2019

Stony Brook Station - Wi-Fi sign 6/12/2019

Stony Brook Station restroom 6/12/2019

Stony Brook Station interior 6/12/2019
Note: Gutted pay telephone pedestal

Stony Brook Station interior schedule board 6/12/2019
 
  Photos/Archive: Dave Morrison  
SETAUKET

SETAUKET FREIGHT STATION BUILT: 2/1877 AND USED AS DEPOT. ACTUAL DEPOT BUILT: JAN-FEB/1883 AGENCY CLOSED: ?  RAZED: 10/3/60. 
DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: c. 1980
  Research: Dave Keller

 
Setauket combination depot freight house. View N/NE
The platform and freight ramp are on the west side. 10/1878
Photo: George Brainerd  Archive: John Lisi


Setauket - View NW c.1900 Archive: Dave Morrison
The freight ramp has been relocated to the east side of the freight house and the station platform extended east of the old freight office and former depot, including a Dietz kerosene platform lamp.

Setauket 1930 Photo: James V. Osborne The freight house has been removed (along with the "AU" block signal semaphore blades) but a short high-level express platform is still in place. Research/Archive: Dave Keller

Setauket Station LIRR #107 - View E 1952
Photo: John Krause
 


Setauket Station - View 1953 NE Photo: John Krause Archive: Dave Keller

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Emery map - Setauket MP54-55 9/1957 Archive: Dave Keller

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Setauket Station 1958 view NW - Robert Emery holding up lamp post. Photo: Bill Slade Archive: Art Huneke
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Setauket Station 1959 view E
Photo/Archive: Art Huneke
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C420 #202 east on trestle over Old Town Rd, east of 
Setauket 12/1971 Photo: Dave Keller
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Setauket station shelter shed and platform View E 8/12/73
Archive: Dave Keller

Emery Map Setauket - 1941
 Archive:  SUNY-Stony Brook

Port Jefferson Branch - Setauket to Port Jefferson Track profile map 1994
 

 

More Setauket

PORT JEFFERSON

OPENED: 1/13/1873, BURNED: 2/1/1874.
2ND DEPOT BUILT: 6/1875, CLOSED: 1903 AND USED AS EXPRESS HOUSE, RAZED: 4/1963
3RD DEPOT OPENED: 7/25/03, REMODELED: 1968. PLATFORM OUT OF SVC: 4/25/88 AND TEMPORARY PLATFORM 75’ WEST OF MAIN ST. IN SVC. WHILE HI-LEVEL PLATFORM UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
SOUTH PLATFORM IN SVC: 10/31/88. CONSTRUCTION OF HI-LEVEL PLATFORMS AND SHELTERS ON N. SIDE OF TRACKS BEGUN: SPRING/1989. PEDESTRIAN OVERPASS COMPLETED: LATE 1998-JAN, 1999. SHELTERS REPLACED: FALL/2000. TEMPORARY STATION IN SVC: 12/1999 DURING RENOVATION OF OLD DEPOT. (Derek Stadler research)  EXTERIOR RESTORED TO ORIGINAL ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR REMODELED NON-HISTORICALLY.  RENOVATION COMPLETED AND OLD DEPOT REOPENED: 7/10/2001. (Derek Stadler date) AGENCY CLOSED: 4/2020  Research: Dave Keller


Port Jefferson -  LIRR  4-4-0  - View E 1878 
Photo: George Brainerd  Archive: Dave Keller

One of the earliest if not THE earliest of LIRR railfan photographers was George Brainerd who worked for the Brooklyn Union Gas Co.  Back in the late 1870s, he lugged his large glass plate negative camera and tripod out east from his residence in Brooklyn and photographed many of the original station buildings along the South Shore, Main Line, Locust Valley (rails had not yet reached Oyster Bay) and Port Jefferson branches.  This terrific image shot by Brainerd in 1878 shows an old 4-4-0 American-type locomotive laying up with a two-car train westbound at the original Port Jefferson station and freight house  west of Coram Rd. (Main St. - current SR #112).  The view is looking east and the depot building, which resembled the structure at St. James, and which survived from 1903 until the mid-1960s as the freight/express house, is at the far left.  The tracks would not yet extend to Wading River for another 20 years.  (George Brainerd photo, Dave Keller archive)  

 

 

Another example of George Brainerd's 1878 photos of an 4-4-0 American-type locomotive at Port Jefferson. Here we have an example of the link and pin coupler system utilized at the time.  (George Brainerd photo, Brooklyn Public Library archive)

 

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Port Jefferson view E  c.1903 
Note: Hopper on team track for Loper Bros Coal. south of main on team track.  Eastbound semaphore behind train.

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Port Jefferson view W  c.1903 
Note:  Semaphore wires and rollers in foreground. 
Info: Dave Keller

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Loper Bros Lumber - FA2 #602 C420 #202 view W 12/1971 Photo/Archive: Dave Keller

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Port Jefferson - Setauket 7/03/1963 
Archive: Brad Phillips

 

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Port Jefferson LIRR #213 4-4-0 
Class D16b view E  c.1907 
E. H. Rogers Feed & Grain south of main on team track.  Note sign: "BICYCLE RIDING on this platform is PROHIBITED" and semaphore signals now moved to front of station

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M. REMZ Feed (after 1931, as per 
Emery map) Port Jefferson View E 4/12/1946 (Weber-Morrison)

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M. REMZ Feed zoom sign -  Port Jefferson View E 4/12/1946 (Weber-Morrison)


E. H. Rogers (left) Echo Ave. (also Port Jefferson Road, Coram Road, Ste. Rte. 112),
Port Jefferson View S 1887 Archive: Tommy Farrell

 

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An interior view of the Port Jefferson ticket office and "JF" block station with the block operator talking with the dispatcher on the flexi-phone at the operator's desk which was built into the ticket office bay window to allow visibility in each direction down the track.  Note the table machine to operate the block signal and also note that this machine was originally manufactured to control two block signals, eastbound and westbound, but the eastbound one, including large round indicator dial, was removed in 1938 with the end of service east of this station to Wading River.  This view is c. 1945. (George Christopher photo, Dave Keller archive)


E.H. Rogers - Port Jefferson view E 1897
After 1931 M. Remz Feed - Archive: Tom Farrell

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M. REMZ Feed sign - Port Jefferson View SW
10/06/1947   (Weber-Morrison)


Emery map - Port Jefferson 1936
Archive: SUNY Stony Brook

Port Jefferson REA truck 2/1941
Photo: Robert Emery 
Archive: SUNY Stony Brook

Port Jefferson Crew Train #635 1941
Photo: Robert Emery 
Archive: SUNY Stony Brook
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M. Remz Bros. Feed View S 1978 
Photo: Steven Lynch
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Robert M. Emery map of Port Jefferson pre-1920 MP57-58 (Dave Keller archive)

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Robert M. Emery map of Port Jefferson MP57-58 effective 9/1957 showing the west yard, station facilities, east yard, wye and wye access tracks.  (Dave Keller archive)

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Robert M. Emery map of Port Jefferson MP58-59 effective 9/1957 showing the tracks and end of track east of the station as indicated in the general order noted in the end-of-track image further down on this page. The right portion of this map also shows the beginning of the Wading River extension as it looked in 1925.  (Dave Keller archive)

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Port Jefferson - Setauket 1/01/1967 
Archive: Brad Phillips


Thomas Wilson & Co. Lace Mill - Port Jefferson aerial view W c.1950 Archive: Tom Giarrizzo
The lace mill plant, which manufacture
d Leavers, Raschel and Bobbinet lace fabrics, closed in 1987.
Note: Finley Robertson Porter automobile plant until the
1920's.


Port Jefferson West Yard view E from west of Main Street
with the
Wilson & Co. Lace Mill on the right  5/1936 

 
Port Jefferson Freight/Express House/Office
View W zoom Photo: 11/06/1947  (Weber-Morrison)

 
Loper Bros. Lumber (far left), Wil
son Mill (left), 'JF' (right) unattended block station signal mounted lower-down on the block signal mast The two-story structure just west of Rt. 112 is the former 2nd depot on-site, built 6/1875 to replace the original which burned 2/1/1874.  After the 1903 depot was built on the east side of what today is Rt. 112, the wooden depot became the express house/office.  It was razed in April, 1963. Photo: 11/06/1947  (Weber-Morrison)

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LIRR 1966 Port Jefferson map # 61

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A local professional photographer whose studio was in Port Jefferson for many years was Arthur S. Greene.  In 1905 he photographed the 2-year-old station building at Port Jefferson.  This depot was built by the developers of nearby Belle Terre, and resembled the architecture of the two pergolas they erected overlooking the Long Island Sound.  Built on the northeast quadrant of the crossing of Patchogue-Port Jefferson Road (later route 112) this new brick structure replaced the original wooden one shown previously which was located on the northwest quadrant of that crossing.  This view is looking northwest and shows Greene's signature pinto pony and wagon . . . usually found in many of his photographs.  Also visible is the block signal out front of the depot building, with two semaphore blades, one eastbound and one westbound as the branch now extended further east to Wading River.  (Thomas R. Bayles collection, Dave Keller archive)  

Port Jefferson Station - View NE c.1930's Archive: eBay Info: Dave Keller
Unattended block limit station signals were installed lower down on the
 mast effective 5/23/28 until end of service to Wading River 10/09/1938

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Looking northwest, we see the Port Jefferson depot as it looked in 1938 after service to Wading River was curtailed.  The semaphore blade for the eastbound block signal has been removed from the mast as there was no longer any through service past this station stop.  (George Christopher photo, Dave Keller archive)

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G5s #22 West Yard Port Jefferson View E c.1935 Port Jefferson had two yards.  One east of the station and one west.  The yard west of the station and west of Route 112 was known, for some unusual reason as the West Yard.  This c. 1935 view looking east towards Route 112 and the station area, shows G5s class (4-6-0) locomotive #22 laying up westbound in the West Yard.  (Dave Keller archive)

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LIRR 1950 Port Jefferson P-54
Track Capacity Map  

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Also laying up in the West Yard, at the west end near the ashpit tracks is G5s #32. This c. 1935 view, looking northeast, was photographed just a short distance east of where the yard branched off the main, and was, for a number of years, adjacent to a turntable, which was later replaced bye a wye track located east of the station and south of the yard. (Dave Keller archive)


Port Jefferson - East Yard aerial east of Columbia St. 10/2020  Photo/Archive: Jason Zimmermann

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Commemorating the last day of steam on Long Island, a railfan extra (fan trip) was held on October 16, 1955, pulled by  G5s #35.  In this view we see the locomotive, tender and lead car just having been cut from the train preparing to back onto the wye track east of the Port Jefferson station.  After being turned on the wye, it will head up the  west leg of the wye track, connect to the front of the train it just pulled eastward, and head back west with its complement of railfans of the day.  (Dave Keller archive)

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Dark Hollow Rd. - arched concrete tunnel west of
Port Jefferson 01/1972 (Keller-Keller)

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Laid up in the Port Jefferson yard in September, 1963 is combination RPO (Railway Post Office) and baggage car #7737.  The car still sports modernization number 487 which it's worn since it was renovated in the LIRR's modernization program of cars which  began in December of 1954 and lasted several years.  Visible across the small door accessing the postal facility is the swing bar that would be rotated perpendicular to the car and catch, while traveling non-stop, leather mailbags hung from a trackside mail crane to be sorted and cancelled en-route.  Also note the bars across the windows protecting the mail compartment from burglary.  U. S. Railway Mail Service employees carried side arms in the completion of their duties.  (Wm. Lichtenstern photo, Dave Keller archive)
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Fairbanks-Morse model H16-44 #1507 is seen here laying up in front of the former and original wooden depot building at Port Jefferson on October 24, 1962.  Once the new brick depot was constructed in 1903, this old depot was relegated to freight and express use and lasted until the mid-1960s.  This view is looking northeast.  The station is at the far right, on the other side of the crossing of Route 112.  The cars visible are in the station parking lot.  (George E. Votava photo, Dave Keller archive)
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Looking due east in the West Yard in 1957, we see ALCO RS3 #1554 laying up alongside a Fairbanks-Morse C-liner.  In the distance at the right is M. Remz's Feed store, many years a landmark, with its notable "Checkerboard Square" pattern, which was Purina Chow's logo.  In the left background is visible the original depot in use as a freight / express house and the 1903 depot beyond.  For fun, compare this image side-by-side with Brainerd's 1878 image!   (Jules P. Krzenski photo, Dave Keller archive)
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Fairbanks-Morse C-liner (model CPA24-5) #2401 is backing an RPO-Baggage car onto the wye east of the Port Jefferson station in 1955 so its train can head back west again. View is looking southwest.  This area today is all built-up commercially.  (W. H. Higginbotham photo, Dave Keller archive)

Fairbanks-Morse C-liner  (model CPA20-5) #2008 is laying up in the late afternoon sun in the yard at Port Jefferson
c.1963  (Dave Keller archive)  

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ALCO C420 #201 and train is laying up westbound in the yard east of the station on April 5, 1964 (George E. Votava photo, Dave Keller archive)

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September 20, 1999 LIRR GP38-2 #272 is at the platform taking in passengers as the sun is rising on Port Jefferson Station view E Photo: William J. Skeats. 

 

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After non-productive revenue service to Wading River during the many years of the Great Depression, when steam trains were replaced by self-propelled gas cars ("Doodlebugs") to cut down on operating expenses, it was finally decided to cut the 1898 branch extension back to Port Jefferson.  The last revenue train ran on October 9, 1938 and a little over 5 months later the following general order was issued:

GENERAL ORDER #1006C, EFFECTIVE 3/29/39:

SINGLE TRACK FROM A POINT 1,550’ EAST OF EAST LEG OF WYE, PORT JEFFERSON STATION TO WADING RIVER
STATION OUT OF SERVICE.

WESTWARD LOWER QUADRANT SEMAPHORE DISTANT SIGNAL LOCATED
EAST OF PORT JEFFERSON STATION OUT OF SERVICE

This view, looking due east, shows that point of single track "1,550' east of east leg of wye" as it looked in 1968, disappearing into nothing . . . .  not even a bumper block or crossed railroad ties.  With the rebuilding of the yard and installation of modern facilities east of the station, this last vestige of rails to Wading River was torn out. (Dave Keller photo and archive)

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LIRR #400 DE30AC passing the West Yard on 10/03/2010 as the leaves are changing Photo: William J. Skeats

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The Port Jefferson depot midday view NE in the Spring/Summer of 1963. A playbill for "Enter Laughing" starring Alan Arkin, Vivian Blaine, Sylvia Sidney, Michael J. Pollard, and Alan Mowbray is attached to the platform light pole at the left. Archive: Brad Phillips

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The Port Jefferson depot is caught in the late afternoon sun in October, 1964.  Long shadows of the position-light block signal and telephone poles are cast in the station parking lot in this view looking due east.  A playbill for "What Makes Sammy Run" starring Steve Lawrence, Robert Alda (Alan's dad) and Sally Ann Howes is attached to the platform light pole at the right.  (Dave Kelle
r archive)


 Port Jefferson Station - M7 #7563 - Train #7725
View E 5/18/2020 Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz



Port Jefferson Station 10/10/2016


Port Jefferson Station  8/17/2017


Port Jefferson Station stove 8/17/2017

Port Jefferson Station  6/12/2019


Port Jefferson Station  6/12/2019


Port Jefferson Station stove 6/12/2019

Port Jefferson Station ticket office 8/17/2017

Port Jefferson Station ticket office 6/12/2019
Photos/Archive: Dave Morrison

 

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