Port Washington Branch

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WIN Tower Winfield Junction 1967
 Photo/Collection: Dave Keller
The History of the Port Washington Long Island Rail Road presented by David Morrison March 3, 2020

Port Washington Branch 1916
 
LIRR NORTH SIDE DIVISION

The "North Side Division" is the original name of the Port Washington branch.  The branch started east of Woodside at Winfield Jct.  It continued on and stopped at Great Neck until 1898 when it was extended to Port Washington.  The Whitestone branch started east of Corona station, on the west side of the Flushing River (Creek).  In 1887, Malba wasn't yet a station stop on the Whitestone branch.  The lines on the timetable between Corona and Flushing, Main Street designate the Whitestone branch.  This was common on timetables that had other branches leading off the timetable's main branch. Research: Dave Keller
 

   Rail & Railroad Magazine - April 2023
  with permission of Frank Garon and Steve Barry

Book Review:  LIRR: Port Washington Branch
by David D. Morrison

 


 

Timetable - North Side Division  - 5/08/1887 
Archive: Jeff  Erlitz

 

WINFIELD JUNCTION

“WJ” TOWER: WINFIELD JUNCTION., QUEENS - JCT. OF MAIN LINE AND PORT WASHINGTON BRANCH (NORTH SIDE DIVISION).  NORTH SIDE OF PORT WASHINGTON BRANCH TRACKS, EAST OF JUNCTION. FORMERLY TOWER #35. S&F MECHANICAL MACHINE IN SVC: 1884.  REBUILT: 3/1/1898 [?] MOVED: 12/1915, SOUTH SIDE OF TRACKS, .7 MILES EAST OF WOODSIDE. 40-LEVER GRS MODEL 2 UNIT LEVER TYPE ELECTRO-MECHANICAL MACHINE IN SVC:  1908.  
RENAMED  “WIN”: 4/16/3
7 DESTROYED BY FIRE AND PLACED OUT OF SVC: 3/28/77.   
(per N. Y. Times: 3/29/77) 

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Winfield Tower No. 4 c. 1894
Archive: Dave Keller
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WJ Tower - Winfield Jct. east of Woodside View E c.1910 previously Tower #35  Archive: Dave Keller

     
             Winfield Jct., Queens map c.1895 Archive: Art Huneke

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WJ Tower-Winfield Jct. c.1910 view SW
Archive: Dave Morrison
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WJ Tower Port Washington  Branch at Winfield Jct. Original location view E c.1910 Archive: Dave Morrison

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WJ Tower interior  c.1910 Archive: Dave Morrison

WIN Interlocking blueprint 12/20/1940
Archive: Stephen McEvoy

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MU trains westbound at WIN Tower signal bridge  Winfield- view NE 7/07/1951 (Faxon-Keller)

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WIN Tower  - View NW 1968 
Photo/Archive: Art Huneke

WIN Tower - 10 car Train #22
6/02/1972 Photo/Archive: Richard F. Makse
 
WIN Tower shortly after the fire
Photo: Winfield S. Boerckel Archive: Dave Morrison

WIN Interlocking map 5/22/1977

WIN Tower after the fire (left) 3/28/1977.  The normal-direction home signals were modified to automatically fleet, as automatic block signals.  Plans were drawn up effective 05/02/77 to rebuild the interlocking and move the table-top machine into the old sub-station building, but this was never accomplished. Archive/Info: Jeff Erlitz

WINFIELD

WINFIELD: BUILT: JULY/1854, MOVED TO WINFIELD JCT: 8/1876 2nd DEPOT BUILT: ?, RAZED: 1915 3RD DEPOT BUILT: 1915, DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP AND RAZED: 1929  Research: Dave Keller


Winfield map - 1873

Winfield Station c.1910 Archive: Art Huneke

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Winfield substation 4/08/1919 
(LIRR valuation-Morrison)
 


Winfield Station c.1918 Source: eBay

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Winfield Station c. January 1st, 1925 view SW 
Archive: Dave Morrison

Winfield was situated roughly in the area within the following borders: Hurl Gate Road (Woodside Avenue) to the north, Mount Zion Cemetery, Calamus Road (Avenue, today) and Maurice Avenue to the south, the New York Connecting Railroad to the east, and New Calvary Cemetery to the west. Its major intersection was where North Shell Road (45th Avenue), Thomson Avenue (Queens Blvd) and Fisk Avenue (69th Street) converged. This was an excellent place for a settlement, as it was located in close proximity to Newtown, and along the road that connected Long Island City and Jamaica. The adjacent town of Woodside was called so because the area sat beside what was then the Winfield Woods – a.k.a. “Suicide’s Paradise” – where, legend has it, despondent early colonists went to commit suicide.

Though you won’t find Winfield listed on modern maps, the village was, at one time, a major center of industry and railroad. The largest employer in the area was a foundry located at the crossroads mentioned above. (W. M. Raymond & Co. Metallic Burial Case Manufacture & Foundry)  The factory manufactured metal coffins – a good trade to be in with so many cemeteries in the area. Business later expanded when major rail lines converged at Winfield. During WWI, the factory was converted into an aircraft-making center. The same factory, at another time, also made Singer sewing machines. Alas, the entire complex is now gone.

In 1854, the Flushing and North Side Railroad (now the Port Washington LIRR line) was extended to the area. The FNSRR ran at-grade down present-day Garfield Avenue. The FNS Winfield stop was located near Madison Avenue (70th Street) and Monroe Street (50th Avenue). The Winfield LIRR stop opened in 1865 less than a half mile away. Finding itself redundant, the LIRR stop closed in 1876, and patrons used the FNS stop, renamed “Winfield Junction,” in its place. Both lines were moved about one block north of their former locations and elevated for safety between 1912-1915, which is when the Winfield Junction station closed. There are no traces of either stop remaining, however, the present-day point in Woodside where the LIRR splits is still referred to as Winfield Junction. Another rail line called the New York Connecting Railroad, built around 1915, runs along what was the eastern border of Winfield. The handsome arches carrying the NYCRR over Queens Boulevard can be viewed on the Forgotten page entitled Got Connections. Research: Christina Wilkinson

ELMHURST

Originally  NEWTOWN   OPENED: 1855, RAZED: 1888 2ND DEPOT OPENED: DEC/1888, HIGH PLATFORMS: 1912, RAZED: 1927
3RD, ELEVATED DEPOT IN SVC:  1927 OUT OF SVC: 1/22/1985 PER GN3-43 RAZED.  Research: Dave Keller


Elmhurst Station - View W at grade c. 1905 Archive: Dave Keller

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Elmhurst Station 1916 Archive: Dave Morrison
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Elmhurst Station 3/1923 (Osborne-Keller)
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 Elmhurst Station View E on Whitney Ave from Broadway 1929 Archive: Dave Keller 
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Elmhurst Station View E 2/07/1977
 (Madden-Keller)
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Elmhurst Station 12/84 - M1 eastbound prior to  next month's raze Photo: Matthew Kowal
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Elmhurst after grade 1927 elimination at Broadway & Whitney Ave, looking south. Also seen in opening credits of "King of Queens" Season 4, 2001 TV sitcom

Elmhurst Train #755 passing former Grand Street station location 8/21/1970
Photo/Archive: Richard Makse
CORONA

ORIGINALLY: FASHION RACE COURSE   BUILT: 3/1853 AS FASHION RACE COURSE, RENAMED WEST FLUSHING,  RENAMED CORONA
2ND DEPOT BUILT: SEPT-OCT/1872, BURNED: 12/9/1880 WHITE LINE DEPOT MOVED TO SITE: 1890, RAZED: 9/1894
4TH DEPOT BUILT: 9/1894, RAZED: 1930 ACCOUNT GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION. TEMPORARY STATION SOUTH OF FORMER 
LOCATION IN SVC: 5/8/30 ELEVATED STRUCTURE NORTH OF FORMER LOCATION IN SVC: 10/13/30 (WESTWARD) 
AND 10/17/30 (EASTWARD) DISCONTINUED AS STATION STOP: 4/8/1964
  Research: Dave Keller

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Emery map - Corona MP5-6 10/1958 Archive: Dave Keller
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Corona Station freight bill  for 2 boxes of baskets 25¢ ($6.92 in 2018)  Form 3 - 12/15/1888 Archive: Dave Keller
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Corona Fuel & Supply Co view NW Zoom 12/1930 (LIRR Valuation-Keller) See note 9 on map at left for location.
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Corona Station - Tiffany Factory View W c. 1910 Archive: Dave Keller
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Corona Station -View E c.1913
Archive: Dave Keller
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Corona Station  c.1910 Archive: Dave Morrison
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 Corona Station view E 10/05/27 In preparation of the grade crossing elimination project. Archive: Dave Keller
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 Corona Station view E 1/24/30 Newly elevated 111th St.
(LIRR valuation-Keller)
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Station Corona view E 4/27/30 
Archive: Dave Keller

A Long Island Rail Road valuation image (above center) from November 24, 1930 showing the newly-elevated ROW and tracks at 111th St. east of Corona Station. The view is looking east towards Flushing Creek with the Brooklyn Ash Removal Company's Corona Ash Dump at the right which, 4 years later, would be ordered cleared by Robert Moses to be leveled out and become the site of the 1939-40 N. Y. World's Fair. The tracks dip down in the distance, cross over the Creek then rise again on the other side of the waterway. Yes, folks . . . It's hard to imagine, but Queens DID once look like this! (Dave Keller info and archive)

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Corona Station colorized post card  
View NW c.1913

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Corona Station newly opened view NW 12/1930 Photo: LIRR valuation Archive: Dave Keller  

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Recently opened elevated station at Corona - platform shelter View NW - 12/1930 
LIRR valuation photo/Dave Keller archive

This station opened in 10/13/1930.  Note how white the concrete stanchions are under the platform, and it appears some construction debris is still on the platform. Research: Dave Keller


It's September 30, 1935 and photographer Percy Loomis Sperr has focused his camera on Flushing Meadows, with a view north towards the LIRR's newly-constructed overpass over the
projected route of the new Grand Central Parkway which is under construction. Beyond the LIRR can be seen the IRT's Flushing Line at Roosevelt Avenue with an EL train passing the
signal tower on the upper level and an EL train entering or leaving the storage yard at the lower level. (Dave Keller archive)
CORONA MEADOWS TEAM YARD

Corona Meadows Team Yard - View NE
10/18/1936 (Sperr-Keller)


Looking North across the marshland from the Roosevelt Avenue bridge on September 30, 1935, we see the Corona Meadows team yard which opened in 1926.  Prior to that date, all freight was handled at the Flushing, Bridge Street freight facilities on the Whitestone branch.  A pair of DD1 electrics with headlights lit are working some freight cars and the freight station is just beyond.  At the far right, the former electrified tracks of the Whitestone branch are visible, paralleling the Flushing River.  After the Whitestone branch was abandoned in February, 1932, this portion of the branch tracks was left intact to access the team yard from the Port Washington branch.  The marshland in the foreground became the site of the large passenger yard constructed in 1938 to handle the layup of passenger trains in service to and from the 1939-40 N. Y. World's Fair trains.  It was torn up in 1954, leaving the team yard in place.  (Percy Loomis Sperr photo, Dave Keller archive)
This is a close-up view of the Corona Meadows team yard.  The former Whitestone branch track at the far right curves in the distance, where it once went across the Flushing River over a swing bridge.

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Emery Whitestone MP6-MP7 10/1958
Archive: Dave Keller


Corona Meadows Yard - J. J. Burke Coal Co. 10/18/1936 (Sperr-Huneke) Location #8 Emery map above. View NE

 


Corona 'New Freight Yard - LIRR Information Bulletin 1/1926 Archive: Art Huneke

After that date, the yard was considered part of the Port Washington branch as it was accessed via the former tracks of the Whitestone branch running parallel to the Flushing River and connecting with the Port Washington branch at the former location of "JC" tower at Whitestone Jct.  The short stretch of track between the Port Washington branch and the west bank of the Flushing River at the out-of-service swing bridge was all that remained in service of the former Whitestone branch.  In 1929, the LIRR stated that this stretch of track would remain in service to access the yard and the freight sidings should the branch be abandoned (plans for which were already in the works at that time). Info: Dave Keller


Corona Freight Yard abandonment + LIRR Information Bulletin 9/1929 Archive: Art Huneke

Of course, this last part never happened. On February 19, 1932, the branch was abandoned, no LCL freight provisions were made at the two named stations and the short stretch of track alongside the Flushing River was left in service. Info: Dave Keller

 

 


Anchor Coal Co.  view SW 1979

Anchor Coal Co. Corona 5/1994
Photo/Archive: James Mardiguian

DD1 freight at Corona Yard Lead - Flushing Meadows (View NE) - c.1949 (Faxon, Jr.- Keller)
This is a close-up view of the Corona Meadows team yard.  The former Whitestone branch track at the far right curves in the distance, where it once went across the Flushing River over a swing bridge.

Corona Yard, and what is left of the Whitestone Branch, once went to Whitestone Landing in Queens. Incidentally, the LIRR offered the Whitestone Branch to the City of New York for sale and maybe even for free, but the city turned it down; they hoped the city would incorporate into their Flushing IRT branch. 

There are various classes of cars that are being scrapped, while a train of new M1's is in the background on the Port Washington Branch. Many cars of the MP54 fleet and others were scrapped here; they were dropped off, cut up and carted off. (above right). The Corona Yard is no more; all of this within the shadows of Shea Stadium and now CitiField. It was once a very active yard but business slowly dried up and it became the last stop for many cars replaced by the new M1 fleet.  Info: Mike Boland


Corona Meadow Team Yard - View S 10/25/1947 (Weber-Morrison)


T54 and parlor cars scrapped at Corona Yard
 1969 Photo/Archive: Mike Boland


Shea Stadium is to the left, just across the street. To the right is where the scrap cars were kept. I've heard they cut up cars here, and shipped the pieces in gondolas to Naporano.  5/1976 Photo/Archive: Tim Darnell 



Corona Yard - LIRR S1 #416 - Shea stadium is to the left and to the right is the former Whitestone branch.
Photo from the Roosevelt Ave. bridge. 5/1976
Photo/Archive: Tim Darnell 


Roosevelt Ave bridge under the #7 line, facing S-SW Photo: Tim Darnell

 
Across the street, facing northeast.
Photo/Archive: Tim Darnell


The branch came off the Pt. Wash line, just east of Shea Stadium station. Info: Tim Darnell

Looking north from just north of the Port Wash Branch.  Shea Stadium to your left, Roosevelt Ave and IRT ahead. Taken I believe in 1978. 
Info/Photo/Collection: Art Huneke


LIRR 2181 in the scrap line at Corona. Prior EL 1310 previously DL&W 310.  3 cabooses  C-94, C-52, and C1. Photo: Tim Darnell c. 1976-77

Roosevelt Ave bridge under the #7 line, facing southwest. The track in the foreground is the remains of the old Whitestone branch, looking towards the old 1964 World's Fair site. Photo: Tim Darnell

The cut-up car is in the lower end of Corona Yard, where a LOT of scrapping went on: regular passenger cars, parlors and diesels. This track accessed the yard. The work train is eastbound on the Port Washington branch. Info: Dave .Keller


C94 from IC built 1941 acquired 1/72
Photo: Tim Darnell c. 1976-77

P74B #7523 Pullman Std. Built 1926
Photo: Tim Darnell c. 1976-77

Corona Yard - View S toward the site of the old
1964-1965 New York World's Fair. 1/22/1972
Photo: Frank Zahn Archive: Mike Boland

Corona Yard lead track - P54 coaches awaiting the  Scrapper's torch c.1973, view NE Photo: Steve Hoskins .Archive: Steven Lynch
Note: Serval Zippers factory in background

LIRR map 1966 Corona page 15

LIRR map 1978  Corona page 14 Archive: Jeff Erlitz

LIRR #169 - C58 at right. Latham Lumber delivery Corona Team Yard
location #3 1978 map (left)
View N  3/13/1978 Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz

LIRR map 1986  Corona page 17 Archive: Jeff Erlitz
       
1930-40 WORLD'S FAIR / UNITED NATIONS / 1964-65 WORLD'S FAIR / SHEA STADIUM / METS - WILLETS POINT

TEMPORARY STATION IN SERVICE PER ETT #9, EFF. 6/19/38 DURING CONSTRUCTION OF MAIN STATION AND FAIR COMPLEX.
2ND STATION IN SVC:  1939-40, RAZED AFTER FAIR CLOSED IN OCT, 1940.
3RD STATION IN SVC: 1/11/61.  AGENCY OPENED:  __?  LAST DAY OF AGENCY FOR 1964:  10/18/64.  AGENCY REOPENED AGAIN FOR AIR SERVICE IN 1965. LAST DAY OF AGENCY: 10/17/65 (Brad Phillips data) AT CLOSING OF FAIR.  STATION RENAMED “SHEA STADIUM”: 4/15/66. 

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Emery World's Fair temporary only MP6-MP7 1937-1940 Archive: Dave Keller


DD1-344, 351 Double headed passenger train - Flushing Meadows Layup Yard for NY World's Fair - Flushing Meadows 1939 Archive: Dave Keller

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NY World's Fair Station 2/1939 
View SE Archive: Dave Keller
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NY Worlds Fair Station - Fairgrounds 1939
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MP41 #1056 NY World's Fair Station   1939 (Votava-Keller)
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MU train at NY World's Fair Station-1939 (Votava-Keller)

UNITED NATIONS   EAST OF CORONA STATION.  IN SVC: 9/15/46 OUT OF SVC: c. 1952  (FLUSHING MEADOWS - SITE OF 1939 WORLD’S FAIR STATION)

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MU Trains DD1 Electrics at NY World's Fair Station 10/06/40  Archive: Dave Keller
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Cabin FAIR - NY World's Fair 5/1940
View E Archive: Dave Keller
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United Nations Station - Flushing Meadows 1946 Archive: Art Huneke 
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Tower JC - Whitestone Jct. Flushing LIRR valuation photo 4/04/21 Archive: Dave Keller

MP6-7 Corona Emery Map 1958
Collection: Dave Keller
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United Nations Station with MU - Flushing Meadows 1952 (Votava-Keller)
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MU Train at NY World's Fair temporary station 1962 (Edwards-Keller)
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MU eastbound World's Fair Station under 
construction Flushing Meadows 5/30/63
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 MU Trains at NY World's Fair Station 9/25/65 (Votava-Keller)
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FAIR Interlocking Cabin - NY World's Fair 5/16/65 (Makse-Keller) 
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M1 Railfan Extra at Shea Stadium Station 4/20/69 (Edwards-Keller)
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Willets Point Station 6/07/14 
Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong

SHEA STADIUM: PREVIOUSLY “WORLD’S FAIR” STATION OF 1964-65 NY WORLD’S FAIR - FLUSHING MEADOWS - 1964. RENAMED “SHEA STADIUM”: 4/15/66. NO FULL-TIME AGENCY. AGENCY ONLY OPEN DURING EVENTS PER LIRR "TICKET OFFICE HOURS" LISTING OF 5/31/66 (Brad Phillips data). FLASHING YELLOW LIGHT MOUNTED ON SIGNAL MASTS TO INDICATE STOP TO BE MADE, IN SVC: 3/21/88. OUT OF SERVICE: END OF BASEBALL SEASON: 9/29/2008. SHEA STADIUM TORN DOWN AND REPLACED WITH NEW “CITI FIELD” STADIUM AND STATION STOP RENAMED “METS-WILLETS POINT.” IN SERVICE:  TIMETABLE EFFECTIVE 4/3/2009. 
Research: Dave Keller

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Ticket between NY Penn and Shea Stadium - Form 1-B H
Archive: Brad Phillips

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"Take the Train to the Game" Shea Stadium
 Port Washington Branch timetable 6/16/2008

Port Washington Branch - Shea Stadium to Auburndale Track profile map 1994

WILLETS POINT: FORMERLY SHEA STADIUM STATION. RENAMED WITH CONSTRUCTION AND OPENING OF NEW “CITI FIELD” STADIUM. IN SERVICE: TIMETABLE EFFECTIVE 4/03/2009.


M1s passing Willets Point Station under construction
9/02/2004 Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong


Willets Point Station under construction
9/01/2005 Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong

Willets Point Station 10/17/2015
Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong
  SHEA CAR SHOP  

Tracks 3-4 are where they currently do the Extensive Interior Cleaning of the MUs. Tracks 5-6 are the pit tracks, which have been filled in with dirt. The MofE trailers are on this platform. (photo right)

Shea Car Shop track 4 location.

Shea Car Shop 7/1981 Photo/Archive: Bill Mangahas

Metro North M-3A 4/1983
Photo/Archive: Bill Mangahas

FLUSHING RIVER DRAW (SWING) BRIDGE


North Side Div. Draw Bridge N72 - Flushing River
sketch B 7/21/1924

The Flushing River swing bridge and bridge tender's cabin can be seen across marshland looking South from the Roosevelt Avenue bridge on September 30, 1935, The building in the left background with "Flushing" indicated on its roof is reminiscent of what early airports used as identification for pilots to see from the air and act as an aid to identify where they were.  This facility appears to be a construction company with a number of crane booms visible. (Percy Loomis Sperr photo, Dave Keller archive)

This is a zoomed-in view of the swing bridge which was originally controlled by the operator at "JC" tower (Whitestone Jct./ Corona Jct.). When the Whitestone branch was abandoned in early 1932, the tower was taken out of service and a bridge tender's cabin installed at the east end of the bridge and it was called "Flushing Drawbridge" despite the fact this was a swing bridge. During the construction of the sewer line for the N. Y. World's Fair, the bridge tender's cabin was turned into a temporary block office with a 6-lever Model TC table machine and given the call letters "CANAL." The block operator on duty handled the block as well as operated the swing bridge. See the segment on "CANAL" cabin for additional info. (Dave Keller data)

 

 
"CANAL" CABIN

Located on the north side of the tracks and the east end of the Flushing River swing bridge (see map notation below), east of Flushing Meadows/Corona during the N. Y. World's Fair sewer line construction adjacent to the Flushing River. US&S 6-lever style TC table machine in service: 7/13/38. Out of service 9/19/38. Note the effort to construct the PRR-style keystone call letters sign, rather than just a square of wood with the name "CANAL" painted on it, which you'd expect for a temporary structure! Also note the screens on all the windows: lots of mosquitoes!


CANAL Cabin -View NE

CANAL Cabin -View NW

CANAL Cabin - LIRR C51sa #268 eastbound over the Flushing River - View W

CANAL Cabin -Operator Win Boerckel - View NE

7/17/1938 Photos: Win S. Boerckel Archive: Dave Morrison
 

FLUSHING - MAIN STREET

BUILT: 12/1853. BURNED: 10/13/1864 
2ND DEPOT BUILT: JAN-FEB/1865, RAZED: 1870
3RD DEPOT BUILT: OCT-NOV/1870, ABANDONED: 11/11/1912
ELEVATED STRUCTURE OPENED: 10/4/1913, 2-STORY, ELEVATED TRACK LEVEL BLDG. RAZED: EARLY 1963. 
STREET LEVEL TICKET OFFICE OPENED AND DEDICATED: MARCH, 1963. (per L. I. Railroader employee magazine).
TICKET OFFICE REBUILT: JAN 21ST-MAR 21ST, 2005.
NEW FACILITIES OPENED AND DEDICATED 10/19/2018 (Per MTA's website)

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Flushing Station Water Tower View E  9/05/1910 Archive: Dave Keller
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ROW view W from portal east of Main Street, Flushing
10/25/1911 - (LIRR valuation-Keller)
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ROW view from east portal of tunnel towards Union Street, Flushing 10/25/1911
(LIRR valuation-Keller)

Main St. Station, Flushing demolition - West side of Main St. - 1912 Archive: Pinterest

The depot (above right) is in the process of being demolished for the grade crossing elimination.  It appears the lumber is being removed a bit at a time rather than a wrecking ball type of demo.  Probably due to the lack of space due to the very tight quarters at the depot with the narrow water tank and as the tracks enter the tunnel on the west side of Main St.  Info: Dave Keller

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Flushing Grade Elimination as a temporary track has been laid and finish grading hasn't yet begun. 1913 Archive: Kevin Wong
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LIRR valuation Union St. construction complete and third rail is being readied to install. View W 9/10/1913 Archive: Kevin Wong
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Flushing Main St. Station (westbound side) - 9/08/1918 (LIRR valuation photo, Dave Morrison archive) 
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Flushing Station - Main St.  colorized post card c.1920
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Flushing Main St., express house with elevated station (eastbound side) - 4/04/1921
(LIRR valuation photo, Dave Morrison archive)
 Flushing-Arrestor-House-valuation_4-04-21_DaveMorrison.jpg (124449 bytes)
Flushing Arrestor House 4/04/1921
(LIRR valuation-Morrison)
  Station-Flushing Main St. - 07-60 (Keller).jpg (85005 bytes)
Flushing Station - Main Street 7/1960 
View S  Archive: Dave Keller
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MU train eastbound at Flushing Main St. Station View W 5/06/1962 (Smith-Keller)
A three-car MU "sandwich" train is eastbound at the old, ornate Flushing, Main Street station on May 6, 1962 (left). This "sandwich train" consists of two MP54 cars as the "bread" with a double-decker car as the "filling." The two-story depot was opened on October 4, 1913 as part of a grade crossing elimination project. The first story was at street level and the second story accessed the elevated station platforms. This nice architectural specimen with multiple arches, columns, wooden eave support brackets, decorative chimney and Spanish pan-tile roof shingles would be demolished early in 1963, not quite 50 years old, only to be replaced with a small, drab, architectural "box" at street level which was opened and dedicated in March of that year. It would serve as a ticket office and tiny waiting room, remaining in use until replaced in 2018. (Harold Smith photo, Dave Keller archive and data)
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Flushing Main St. Station - Interior
 Flushing Main Street-station_4-4-2007_KevinWong.jpg (107298 bytes)
Flushing Main Street Station  41st Ave-Main St. 4/04/2007  Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong

Flushing Main Street Station 4/08/2016
Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong
 

Flushing Main Street ticket office 1/27/2023 Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong

Flushing Main Street new station house
1/27/2023 Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong

Flushing Main Street 1/27/2023
Photo/Archive:  Kevin Wong
 

Flushing Main Street 1/27/2023 – New fully accessible ADA station built 2017-2018, completed August 2018, in service 8/31/2018. Dedication by local officials 10/18/2018, per MTA.  New station house is on the
westbound side with one story station building at street level. Station house is a single story grey brick structure with ticket office (open Fridays only) and glass canopy (no waiting room) and electrical rooms.  Info: Kevin Wong

MURRAY HILL

BUILT: 1889-90, RAZED: 10/1912 
2ND ELEVATED DEPOT OPENED: 7/1914 (STATION BLDG. SPANNED DEPRESSED TRACKS). AGENCY STILL LISTED IN "L.I.R.R. TICKET OFFICES OPEN FOR SALE OF TICKETS" OF 9/12/55.  RAZED: 9/64  

 

 

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ROW from 18th Street (158th St.)  Murray Hill View E 12/29/11 (LIRR valuation-Keller)

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Murray Hill Station colorized photo view NE
c.1910 Archive: Dave Morrison
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Murray Hill Station view W from Boerum Ave. 12/18/1911 (LIRR valuation-Keller)
Murray-Hill-Station-valuation_tracksideview_8-11-14_DaveMorrison.jpg (124533 bytes)
Murray Hill Station view W
8/11/2014 (LIRR valuation-Morrison)
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Murray Hill Station  8/11/2014 
(LIRR valuation-Dave Morrison)
MU Train Leaving Sta-Murray Hill - 1950 (Edwards-Keller).jpg (118818 bytes)
MU train under 149th Pl. leaving Murray Hill Station View E 1950 (Edwards-Keller)
Murray-Hill-Station-colorized_c.1905_DaveMorrison.jpg (124655 bytes)
Murray Hill Station colorized photo view NE
c.1910 Archive: Dave Morrison
MI-Cabin_MurrayHill-1925.jpg (48849 bytes)
Murray Hill MI Cabin 1925 view W
Photo: James V. Osborne Archive: Dave Keller
 

 

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Murray Hill Substation LIRR 4/04/21 (LIRR valuation-Morrison)

Murray Hill Station - 8/29/2024
Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong
FLUSHING - BROADWAY

OPENED: 10/27/1866 AS " EAST FLUSHING ."  RENAMED "BROADWAY" BY TIMETABLE OF MAY/1872, CLOSED: 1906.
2ND DEPOT OPENED: 9/1/1906, ELEVATED: 1912 WITH GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION OF BROADWAY. AGENCY CLOSED:  8/19/2009.

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Broadway Station - Flushing colorized photo c.1920
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Broadway Station Flushing LIRR valuation
 photo 1914
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Freight station Broadway Flushing 11/04/18
Archive: Dave Keller 
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Broadway-Flushing Station view NW 1967 Photo/Archive: Dave Keller
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Broadway Station 1937 Archive: Dave Morrison
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Broadway Station  4/04/2021 view NE
(LIRR valuation-Morrison)
 
Broadway Station  8/29/2024 view NE
Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong
 
AUBURNDALE

BUILT: 5/1901, CLOSED: 1929 ACCOUNT GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION, SOLD AND MOVED TO PRIVATE LOCATION FOR USE AS A CHURCH: 1930. (CHURCH CLOSED:1973.) TEMPORARY TRACKS RELOCATED ON SHOO-FLY 42’ NORTH OF ORIGINAL LOCATION: 6/18/29 DUE TO GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION. HIGH LEVEL PLATFORM IN SVC: 12/5/29 AND WESTBOUND STATION FACILITIES
RELOCATED ON ELEVATION 42’ SOUTH OF FORMER LOCATION AND CONVERTED FROM OUTSIDE LOW LEVEL PLATFORM TO ISLAND HIGH LEVEL PLATFORM. AGENCY STILL LISTED IN "L.I.R.R. TICKET OFFICES OPEN FOR SALE OF TICKETS" OF 9/12/55.  AGENCY CLOSED: ?    Research: Dave Keller

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Auburndale Station grade elimination temporary 
tracks View E 5/18/1929
(LIRR valuation-Keller)
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Auburndale Station 1923 Photo: James V. Osborne Archive: Dave Morrison
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Auburndale Station grade elimination temporary 
tracks View W 5/18/1929 (LIRR valuation-Keller)
Team Yard - W. of Auburndale-View E - 06-17-29 (LIRR Val-Keller).jpg (120262 bytes)
Auburndale Team Yard view E view E from Utopia Parkway - 6/17/1929 (LIRR valuation-Keller)
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Auburndale Station grade elimination
temporary tracks View E 7/15/1929
(LIRR valuation-Keller)
ROW-View E from Utopia Pky Overpass-Elev Station in Distance-Auburndale - 12-12-29 (LIRR Val-Keller).jpg (95670 bytes)
ROW view E from Utopia Parkway overpass - Elevated Auburndale Station in the distance 
12/12/1929 (LIRR valuation-Keller)

Emery maps Auburndale MP9-10 - 1904, 1928, 9/1958 Archive: Dave Keller
Auburndale-Station-valuation_11-4-18_DaveMorrison.jpg (86950 bytes)
Auburndale Station 11/04/1918 
(LIRR valuation-Morrison)

Scranton & Lehigh Coal Co - View E 12/12/1929 
Photo: LIRR Valuation  Archive: Dave Keller
Note: Auburndale Feed Co. lower right
BAYSIDE

"BAY SIDE": (Originally) BUILT: c.1866 WITH OPENING OF STATION STOP ON 10/27/1866  2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1886, RAZED: 1924  3RD DEPOT BUILT: 1924. TEMPORARY  TRACKS RELOCATED TO SHOO-FLY  SOUTH OF ORIGINAL LOCATION:  6/18/1929 DUE TO GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION.  TRACKS DEPRESSED AND HIGH LEVEL PLATFORMS IN SVC:  9/25/1929  (WESTBOUND)
AND 12/5/1929 (EAST BOUND) AT 1924 DEPOT BUILDING
     Research: Dave Keller

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Bayside Station c.1917

 

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Bayside Station 1924 
Photo: James V. Osborne Archive: Dave Morrison
 
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Bayside Team Yard under construction view E 
from footbridge 6/17/1929 (LIRR valuation-Keller)
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Bayside  freight house View W  8/17/1929 
(LIRR Valuation-Huneke)

The electrified siding going into the coal yard provided  DD1 electric locomotives to pull freight in third rail territory, freeing up locomotives to operate in steam territory.  The "run around" to the right of freight house removed 1938.   

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Bayside freight house, track workers and the temporary block cabin B2 that controlled the temporary single track in place during the grade elimination project from June 18 to December 5, 1929 when it was placed out of service during the grade elimination - Fall, 1929 Archive: Dave Keller

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Bayside freight house view W 1/25/30
Archive: Dave Keller

LIRR valuation photo shot after the grade elimination was completed at Bayside.  You can see the concrete retaining walls as the two tracks dip into the cut, and all the  embankments finished off. 

“B2” Cabin: A temporary block station 1,500’ east of Bayside Station on east side of freight house, north side of tracks on account of grade crossing elimination at Auburndale and Bayside. US&S 4 lever style TC table machine in service: 6/18/29 Out of service: 12/5/29

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Bayside Freight House 4/14/34 
Archive: Dave Keller

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Bayside Freight House - Team Yard view E from
Bell Blvd. Hawley Coal Co. at right. 11/27/35 (LIRR Valuation-Keller)



Ticket Form 2-H  Round Trip World's Fair to Bayside 10/19/1940 Archive: Brad Phillips
 

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Looking east at the Bayside freight house on April 12, 1927 we see a steel boxcar spotted on the house track at the left, a wooden boxcar spotted on the Queensborough Lumber Company's siding at the right, and, in the center distance is seen the 1924 joint pedestrian footbridge/signal bridge with semaphore block signals #N112 mounted. Within 2 years, the main eastbound and westbound tracks visible in this image would be depressed in a deep cut to eliminate the grade crossings in Bayside. (Percy Loomis Sperr photo, Dave Keller archive and data)

Freight House-Team Yard-Bayside-View E from Bell Blvd - 11-27-35 (LIRR Val-Keller) (Zoom).jpg (79468 bytes)
Close-up Queensborough Lumber Co. Pedestrian walkover at rear with mounted semaphore signal. View E - 11/27/1935  (LIRR valuation-Keller)

 

 

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Bayside Station view W c. late 1940's 
Photo: LIRR Archive: Jim Gillin


MP54 train eastbound at Bayside 3/1947
Photo: James G. La Vake


Marben Lumber & Flooring Co.
View W 1960 - Photo/Archive: Art Huneke

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Bayside Freight House -View W  4/12/1978 (Madden-Keller)

The old freight house was torched by vandals and, as a result, demolished shortly after this photo was taken. What appears to be a bridge in the distance over the tracks (causing the shadow) is the road bridge and beyond, the covered pedestrian crossover at the Bayside station. The westbound concrete platform is visible to the right of the tracks.


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Ticket 1/2 fare World's Fair and Bayside
Opening Day: April 22, 1964

ticket-half-fare_World's-Fair-Bayside-back_4-22-1964_BradPhillips.jpg (43349 bytes)
Archive: Brad Phillips

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Bayside Station - View NW 1958
Archive: Kevin Wong
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View W  towards 216th St. overpass and Bayside Station 1975 Photo: A. Joseph Daly
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Bayside Station SB Block Signal view E 
1/22/79 (Erlitz-Keller)
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Bayside Station view W 7/05/2001
Photo/Archive: Dave Keller
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M7 7196 eastbound eases its train into Bayside Station on a snowy Saturday January 22, 2005. Photo: A. Joseph Daly

Bayside Station - 1961
Archive: Tommy Byrne

BAY  BLOCK STATION

LOCATED EAST OF BAYSIDE - TEMPORARY BLOCK  STATION FOR SINGLE TRACKING DURING TRACK REHABILITATION BETWEEN BAYSIDE AND SHEA STADIUM AND BAYSIDE AND GREAT NECK, BOUNCING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE 1ST  AND 2ND CROSSOVER SWITCHES EAST OF BAYSIDE.  SEE SERVICE HISTORY INDICATED BELOW.  Info: Dave Keller

IN SVC: 4/05/78    O.O.S:    5/07/78
RELOCATED AND IN SVC:    5/08/78
RELOCATED AND IN SVC:    6/07/78
RELOCATED AND IN SVC:    8/09/78  
O.O.S:  10/14/78
IN SVC:  11/01/78  O.O.S:  12/13/78
IN SVC:   2/05/79   O.O.S :    4/23/79
IN SVC:  10/02/82 FOR ONE DAY ONLY
RELOCATED AND IN SVC:    3/14/83
RELOCATED AND IN SVC:    4/04/83
RELOCATED AND IN SVC:    5/09/83
IN SVC:   7/12/86 FOR ONE D
AY ONLY
IN SVC:   7/19/86 FOR ONE DAY ONLY
IN SVC:   9/27/86 FOR ONE DAY ONLY
IN SVC:   3/28/87 FOR ONE DAY ONLY
IN SVC:   8/15/87 FOR ONE DAY ONLY
IN SVC:   8/22/87 FOR ONE DAY ONLY
IN SVC:   3/12/88.  O.O.S:  3/13/88

Cabin-BAY-WB M1 Train-E. of Bayside-View E - 04-12-78 (Jeff Erlitz-Dave Keller).JPG (121956 bytes)
 "BAY" temporary block station east of Bayside. This view is looking E on 04/12/1978 with a westbound M1 train abreast of the cabin. The call letters have been posted on the telephone pole. (Jeff Erlitz - Dave Keller)
 

 

DOUGLASTON

BUILT: APR-MAY/1867, MOVED TO PRIVATE LOCATION: ? 2ND DEPOT BUILT: 6/1887, REBUILT: 1898, RAZED: 3/62
NEWER DEPOT BUILT: 1962. AGENCY  CLOSED:  8/19/2009.

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Douglaston Station 1916 View W 
Archive: Dave Morrison

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Douglaston Station - view NW 10/30/1918
(LIRR valuation-Morrison)

Douglaston Station - View W from the  235th St. crossing. 1930
Archive: Jeff Erlitz

The addition of the below-track pedestrian tunnel accesses were constructed the same year as this photo. Info: Dave Keller 

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Douglaston Station view E 1937 
Archive: Dave Morrison
MU Dbl Dk Train WB at Station - Douglaston -  1962 (Keller).jpg (111797 bytes)
MU Double Deck Train westbound at Douglaston Station - View NE  3/1962
Archive: Dave Keller
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Douglaston Station temporary ticket office
in background View NE 1962
Archive: Dave Keller

Douglaston Station - View SE
Photo: forgotten-ny.com

 


Douglaston Station - View NW c.2020 Photo: Google

The photographer is standing on the former site of the 235th St. crossing, looking NW. Info: Dave Keller

Also, visible in the 1930 image, but not in the earlier 1918 photo, is the crossing of 235th St.  At some later date, the crossing was eliminated in an early grade crossing elimination project and the road truncated at either side of the tracks
and Douglaston Parkway bridged the tracks a short distance east of the station as is seen here in this view towards the parkway overpass. Info: Dave Keller

The former site of the 235th St. crossing (above), looking SE towards the Douglaston Parkway overpass. Note the replacement stair shelters for the below-grade pedestrian crossing.  These were constructed along with the replacement depot in 1962. Info: Dave Keller

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View east from that 216th St. pedestrian overpass. The structure in the background is across Little Neck Bay, in Douglaston. Today, Bay Interlocking is here. A set of crossovers, controlled from Harold. I can't pin exact date, it is c.1975.  A. Joseph Daly
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LIRR #167 216th St. 1978 
Photo: A. Joseph Daly
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LIRR #167 216th St. 1978 
Photo: A. Joseph Daly
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M-1 about to crest the grade up from Douglaston/Little Neck Bay. About to pass under 216th St. pedestrian overpass, and descend into Bayside Station. Westbound 10/1974  Info/Photos: A. Joseph Daly
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LIRR M7 7233 is crossing over at Bay Interlocking, due to track work ahead.
March 15, 2004 train is westbound, going on to a normally eastbound track.
Photo: A. Joseph Daly 
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Shot from 221st overpass, looking east. Apt. buildings in background are in Douglaston. Train is over the Cross Island Pkwy, coming upgrade to Bayside.
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Under the watch of PRR style position light signals, LIRR MU (M1 or M3?) has climbed the grade from Little Neck Bay, and is westbound, dropping in to Bayside Station on Saturday, January 22, 2005.
Signals are the west end of Bay Interlocking, I believe controlled by Harold Tower. Photo: A. Joseph Daly 
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M-1 at Alley Creek west of Douglaston Station traversing Little Neck Bay c.1975
Photo: A. Joseph Daly
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Eastbound arriving Douglaston 09/09/1965 
Archive: Douglaston Historical Society
Flushing-Creek_NY&NS-Trolley-bridge_Route25Abridge_VanR.SwezyHay-Grain-Feed & Coal Co._viewNE_c.1910.jpg (53880 bytes)
Alley Creek NY&NS Trolley bridge, Route 25A bridge (left)
Van R. Swezy Hay Grain Feed & Coal Co.
in background as a barged industry. View NE c.1910 
Archive: Vincent Seyfried

Alley Creek map 

Douglaston Station groundbreaking Three-D Society 7/26/1962
Archive: Dave Morrison
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Douglaston bridge was a swing bridge originally allowing ships into Alley Creek to access the mill. It was rebuilt in 1990's to help revive tidal flow into Alley Creek. View N
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Douglaston bridge view N c. 1964 
Collection: nycsubway.org
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M1 train heading across Alley Creek in Douglaston 10/07/77 View W (Wm. Madden photo, Dave Keller archive)

Douglaston Station 8/29/2024
Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong
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D Cabin - Douglaston 1925 Photo: James V. Osborne Archive: Dave Keller

“D” CABIN: 1. DOUGLASTON DRAWBRIDGE (SWING BRIDGE), S. SIDE OF TRACKS BUILT ON RECLAIMED W. EDGE OF ALLEY CREEK. IN SERVICE: 9/1911 – 1924
“D” CABIN: 2. DOUGLASTON DRAWBRIDGE (SWING BRIDGE) (N. SIDE OF TRACKS, ON E. SIDE OF ALLEY CREEK. IN SERVICE: 1924-1926. SAXBY & FARMER 4 LEVER MECHANICAL MACHINE. AFTER 1926 BECAME BRIDGE TENDER’S CABIN. RENAMED “DOUGLASTON DRAW BRIDGE.” Research: Dave Keller

LITTLE NECK

APPEARS ON TIMETABLE OF 1866. DEPOT OPENED: JULY/1870 2ND DEPOT OPENED: 12/1890. AGENCY CLOSED:  8/19/2009  Research: Dave Keller

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Little Neck substation 10/25/18 
(LIRR valuation-Morrison)

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Little Neck Station view E 4/26/32 
Archive: Dave Keller
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Little Neck  Shelter Shed - Station - REA Express House View E 5/10/1946 (Weber-Morrison)
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Little Neck REA Express House - View W 5/10/1946 (Weber-Morrison)
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Little Neck - End of REA platform View E 
5/10/46 (Weber-Morrison)
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MU Train at Little Neck Station  view W 
9/18/1951 (Faxon, Jr.-Keller)
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Little Neck  Shelter Shed - REA Express House View E
9/18/1951 (Faxon, Jr.-Keller)
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Little Neck Express House View SE 9/18/1951 (Faxon, Jr.-Keller)

On June 30, 1984, an eastbound MU passenger train departed Little Neck Station and encountered a portion of the right-of-way that had just been washed out by water from a major rainstorm. The engineer could not stop in time, which allowed most of the train to cross over the washed out area. The rear car hung in midair on the totally unsupported track, as seen in this photo taken by Win A. Boerckel.  Information/Archive: Dave Morrison 

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Little Neck Station view NE c.1968


Little Neck washout 6/30/1984
Photo/Archive: John Krattinger


Little Neck SB signal view E towards Bayview Ave 6/30/1984 Photo/Archive: John Krattinger

 



LIRR Along the Track August, 1984 Archive: RMLI Library

 

GREAT NECK

BUILT: 1866. ON NY & FLUSHING TIMETABLE 12/31/1866 AS "GREAT NECK" AND ON FLUSHING & NORTH SIDE TIMETABLE OF 05/06/1872 AS "BROOKDALE"  RAZED: 1883 
2ND DEPOT OPENED: 10/1883, REMODELED: 1893, RAZED: 1924 
3RD DEPOT IN SVC: 2/26/25. RELOCATED SOUTH OF FORMER LOCATION ON 
ACCOUNT GRADE CROSSING ELIMINATION: 6/8/34. STATION FACILITIES RELOCATED IN CUT 120' W. OF FORMER LOCATION AND CONVERTED FROM LOW LEVEL TO HIGH LEVEL PLATFORMS: 01/19/35 (1925 DEPOT BUILDING REMAINED AT GRADE).  Research: Dave Keller

 
Great Neck Station c.1898

 
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Emery map Great Neck MP13-MP14
1906 and 1929 Archive: Dave Keller

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Great Neck Station c.1905
Archive: Dave Morrison

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Camelback at Great Neck Station colorized 
post card View E c.1905

 

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Great Neck Station Camelback #2 view W c.1912
Archive: Dave Keller

 


Great Neck Station - View NW 1912
Collection: Great Neck Library

The camelback locomotive and trains are eastbound on the westbound track. The depot (as with the present-day depot) was on the N side of the tracks. In the middle of the eastbound and westbound tracks is a center island platform. The third track, the one in the foreground, is a passing siding.

Double track was in place to Great Neck in 1912-13 and just beyond the station the double track became single track and extended as such to Port Wash.

Electrification was in effect as of 10/25/1913. As there is no third rail (1913) evident in theses images, but double track is (1912-1913), the images would have to have been photographed in 1912. Dave Keller
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Celebrating the opening of the new station on March 7, 1925, built by Ernest L. Smith "in the English style" at a cost of $50,000. 
Photo: Alexander Culet Archive: Great Neck Library
Great Neck 1925 Officials.jpg (201260 bytes) Great Neck 1925 LIRR band.jpg (198859 bytes) Great Neck 1925 dedication ceremony.jpg (175479 bytes)
Long Island Railroad Information Bulletin - June 3, 1925 Archive: Dave Morrison
MU Train-EB-Colonial Rd Iron Bridge-E of Great Neck - View W -c. 1940 (Keller).jpg (73010 bytes)
MU Train Eastbound - Colonial Rd Iron Bridge east of Great Neck View W c.1940 Archive: Dave Keller
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Ping Pong  Loco Train B Grace Ave Iron Bridge E. of Great Neck
View E c.1905 Archive: Dave Keller 
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Colonial Rd. Iron Bridge E of Great Neck View W Google Maps 2015

Two more, kind of "before and after" shots only from opposite directions:

1.  Ping-Pong locomotive pulling train westbound under the Grace Ave. iron bridge E. of Great Neck - c. 1905 (View East:  Third rail not yet installed)
2.  MU train eastbound under the Colonial Road (formerly Grace Ave.) iron bridge E. of Great Neck - c. 1940 (View West)

This iron bridge is designated #N145 and was built in 1897. From a Google Maps view, it appears this bridge is still in place minus the ornamental,
wrought-iron handrails and road grating installed in lieu of the original wooden planks (like Ronkonkoma Ave. iron bridge).   Info: Dave Keller
 

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Great Neck freight station and "G" interlocking tower and semaphore block signal - looking west at  - 10/28/1931. All sidings, including the team track with box car at far left are electrified.  Archive: Dave Keller
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North Shore Mason LIRR valuation photo 
View E 5/05/34 Note: Great Neck Lumber then Gregory Coal in background.
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MU #2506 East Shore Rd., Great Neck view N   9-/01/1969  "Traffic a Pain? Relax on a Train!"  bridge slogan
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Great Neck station and "G" block office employees - Agent J. Ellenberger is at the left, seated at the desk, an unidentified block operator is standing in front of the model board, with the office ticket clerks to the right.  The ticket clerk with the eyeglasses is Tina Wieckhorst
(Dave Morrison archive)

Note the timetable rack in the background, as well as the counter at the right upon which the man is leaning his arm.  Also note the dater die (white top) and the bars of the ticket window at the far right.

"G" tower was taken out of service on June 8, 1934, due to the pending grade elimination and the block office relocated inside the

Great Neck ticket office effective January 19, 1935 with a table machine (seen behind the agent's head) to operate the block signals.

Between the OOS date of 6/8/34 and the IS date of 1/19/35, "G" cabin temporary block office was in operation.  Research: Dave Keller

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G Tower Great Neck View E c.1931
Archive: Dave Morrison

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Great Neck Station LIRR valuation photo 6/09/1934
View NE

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Great Neck Lumber LIRR valuation photo 
View W 5/05/1934

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Gregory Coal & Lumber Co., Great Neck  view E
LIRR valuation photo 4/15/1934

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Great Neck Section House 1934 view E
Archive: Dave Morrison
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Great Neck Station 1933 Archive: Dave Morrison
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Great Neck Express House - REA truck
View E c.1935 Archive: Dave Morrison
In 1933 the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) was planning to eliminate the congested, some would say dangerous ground level crossing on Middle Neck Road by constructing an overpass. The LIRR insisted that lowering, or "depressing" the tracks, which Great Neck residents wanted, was too expensive. A solution was only arrived at when William and Florence Barstow donated $32,000 to cover the additional cost of lowering the tracks. Seventh Avenue, which joined North and South Station Plaza was renamed in their honor - Barstow Road. Lowering the LIRR tracks through Great Neck was quite a large and complicated job for a small town, involving much planning, surveying, earth moving and old fashioned manpower. Many would argue that track depression is the way most other Long Island communities should have gone, considering the number of ground level crossing accidents and fatalities they've had, and how few incidents Great Neck has had. Still, by 1935, residents had another concern: a sizable fare increase. The cost of the 60-trip ticket rose from $9.46 to $11.40.  Info: Great Neck Library
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Emery map Great Neck MP13-MP14 8/31/1958 Archive: Dave Keller
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M1 Train #459 Great Neck Interlocking 1/19/1972 Photo: Richard Makse
Archive: Dave Keller
   

Great Neck Station c.1940 Archive: Great Neck Library Postcards Collection


Great Neck Station  - View NE 2/19/2020
Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

 


Great Neck Station plaque - Grade Crossing Elimination 1935   2/19/2020 Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison


Great Neck Station  - Welcome Sign
2/19/2020 Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

 


Great Neck Station 11/02/2022 Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz


Great Neck Station - NECK Interlocking Home signals 1E-2E 11/02/2022 Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz


Great Neck Station - Waiting room plaque 2/19/2020 Photo/Archive: Dave Morrison

MANHASSET

BUILT: 1899. PARTIALLY RAZED: LATE 1924. MAIN DEPOT PORTION MOVED ADJACENT TO TOWN HALL FOR USE AS BICYCLE SHOP.
2ND DEPOT OPENED: 3/23/1925. BUILDING RESTORED: 2001


Port Washington Branch - Manhasset to
Port Washington Track profile map 1994


Manhasset Trestle Construction

 

 

 

 


Manhasset Trestle Construction

 

Photos Archive: Probably 1897, as the railroad opened at Port Washington in June 1898.
 Dave Morrison

 


Manhasset Trestle Construction

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Manhasset Trestle colorized photo c.1905 
Archive: Dave Morrison
 
Manhasset Trestle LIRR #261 1/02/1978
Photo/Archive: Paul De Luca
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Manhasset Trestle over Cow Bay c.1907

Soon after the end of the Civil War and the assassination of President Lincoln, the LIRR reached Great Neck, on the North Shore of Long Island. It would be more than 30 years before the Long Island Railroad could secure the political will and economic backing to extend the line further to its logical terminus, in scenic Port Washington. One million, one hundred and eighty five thousand dollars had been expended to purchase the right of way from local landowners between Great Neck and Port Washington. A bridge over the Manhasset Valley was constructed at an additional cost of $60,000, built by Kings Bridge Iron Company, a subsidiary of Carnegie Steel. At 678 feet long and 81 feet high, the bridge was to remain the highest bridge that the Long Island Railroad would ever construct. The line was fully electrified by October 21st, 1913. Research: the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society

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Manhasset Viaduct at track level  c. 6/1934+
Archive: Dave Keller
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USGS Topo Oyster Bay-NY-CONN Edition Oct, 1900 zoom

Cow Bay was the former name of Manhasset Bay, which is the body of water seen in the map.  Due to the presence of cattle raising, it came to be called Cow Bay, and the local neck, to the northeast, "Cow Neck". It finally became Manhasset Bay in 1907. Source: Wikipedia

P.F. Collier & Son - Map of New York City in The New Encyclopedic Atlas and Gazetteer of the World. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1917

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Manhasset trestle 6/01/950 Photo: Bill Slade 
Archive: Art Huneke

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Manhasset Viaduct 08/31/1982 
Photo: Paul De Luca


Manhasset Viaduct - View SW 5/021 Photo/Archive: Joe Stroppel

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Manhasset Station view E c.1900 
Archive: Dave Morrison


MP54 at Manhasset Station c.1954
W. J Edwards photo - Dave Keller archive

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LIRR #260 Manhasset Viaduct 1999 view N 
Photo: Mario Craig

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Manhasset Station c.1900 Archive: Dave Morrison

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Manhasset  Station Opening Day 3/13/25
Long Island METRO LINES June 1970

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Inspection train with Alco RS-1 #463, a former Lackawanna Phoebe Snow lightweight observation car (either #2081 AQUEBOGUE or #2082 ASHAROKEN), and heavyweight business car #99 JAMAICA (former #2038 SETAUKET) crossing the viaduct at Manhasset, 10/73 (Huneke-Keller) Info: John Deasy

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Manhasset Station view E 1931 
Archive: Dave Morrison
Note: Warning telltale for Plandome Rd.
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Manhasset Station view W 1931
Archive: Dave Morrison
Note: Warning telltale for Manhasset Ave.
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Manhasset Station view W 1946 
Archive: Dave Morrison
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C420s #222, #226 Passenger Extra westbound 
Manhasset Viaduct 10/1987 Photo: Art Huneke

 

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Manhasset Station view SW 1967 
Photo/Archive: Dave Keller
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Manhasset Station view NW 12/11/1976 (Madden-Keller)

Manhasset Station - M9 #9069 Train #449 Port Washington to Penn Station 5/17/2022 Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz

Manhasset Station - M7 #7628 Train #432 Penn Station to Port Washington 5/17/2022
Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz

Manhasset Station view NW 8/29/2024
Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong

Manhasset Station Waiting Room - Ticket Office
8/29/2004 - Photo/Archive: Kevin Wong
       
PLANDOME

BUILT: 1909, BURNED: 1987 2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1987.  AGENCY CLOSED:  ?  

 

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Plandome Station newly opened  6/30/1909
View E  Archive: Dave Keller
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Plandome Station - Ladies waiting for the train c.1930
Archive: Dave Keller
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Plandome Station view W 1939
Archive: Dave Morrison

Plandome was elevated from the get-go and a bridge over the main road thru there on the west side of the station parking lot has been in place since 1898 when the tracks were extended to Port Washington.  Plandome station itself was opened in 1909 at the elevated tracks which were laid atop a dirt embankment. You can see the tracks descending from the embankment as it curves to head towards Port Washington.  Also visible is the station in an elevated position with the parking area at ground level to the right of the depot building.

The 1909 Plandome depot was burned by vandals and replaced by a station that was very reminiscent of the original structure.  What was sad was that the female station agent had antique LIRR memorabilia hanging on display in the ticket office to bring a little history into the venue. Info: Dave Keller

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Plandome Station  MU Train  9/15/48 
Archive: Dave Keller
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Plandome Station MU Train 8/17/62
Archive: Dave Keller 
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Plandome Station 12/11/76  Archive: Dave Keller
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Plandome Station view NE 12/11/76
 (Madden-Keller)
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Plandome Station close-up USPS sign 
  12/11/76  (Madden- Keller)

Plandome Station 12/13/2021
Photo/Archive: Joe Stroppel

M7 #7114 Train #6424 (Penn-Port Washington) Plandome Station - View S 7/10/2022  Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz

PORT WASHINGTON
OPENED: 06/23/1898 AS WOOD-FRAMED BLDG WITH WOOD SIDING.  REMODELED WITH BRICK FACING: 1930.  BRICK FACING REMOVED AND DEPOT RESTORED TO CLOSE-TO-ORIGINAL CONDITION FOR 100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: 1998

Inauguration of June 23, 1898 Port Washington train service plaque. 6/2/2021 by Cow Neck Historical Society Pres. Chris Bain


Emery map Port Washington MP17 8/31/1958
         Archive: Dave Keller

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Pre-1962 MP54 Track Capacities

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Photo: Harold Fullerton  Archive/Info: Dave Keller

Port Washington station – opening day – June 23, 1898 with Superintendent W. S. Potter’s business car #200. Check out the wooden building and wooden low-level platform around the depot.  This is the SAME depot there today.  Over the years they bricked the structure and added covered platforms and then covered hi-level platforms.  

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Port Washington Station View NE Opening Day 6/23/1898 (Fullerton-Keller)

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View NE of westbound track c.1900
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View SE colorized photo c.1905


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First train Port Washington Branch 6/23/1898

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View W colorized photo c.1905
Archive: Dave Morrison
 
Port Washington Station platform, view NE, with track bumper and canopy 3/1903.
Photo: John Witmer Archive: Port Washington News

Port Washington Station platform, view W, with the canopy added 3/1903. The water tank on the far right is approximately where the footbridge crosses over to Haven Avenue. 
Photo: John Witmer
Archive: Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society 

34th-St._lirr-ferry-pass.jpg (29930 bytes)On June 23rd, 1898, the first steam locomotive set out towards the small hamlet of Port Washington, which then had a population of just 1800 farmers, shell fisherman, shopkeepers, sand miners and families. Of course, the locomotive and her two passenger cars hadn’t come from Manhattan. In 1898 it would have come from the western terminus at Hunter’s Point, in Long Island City. Travel to and from Manhattan still required a ferry ride (left) across the East River to the 34th street ferry dock. It wasn’t until early in the 1910’s that a tunnel under the river and the streets of Manhattan, allowed the rail line to reach all the way to Pennsylvania Station.  Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society


Morning Express D53a Camelback -Port Washington c.1905 Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society

Port Washington Station tracks view W c.1940's Archive: Dave Morrison
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MUs at Port Washington 1944 Freight/express house at right. Photo: W. J. Edwards Archive: Dave Keller 
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REA #1211 at Port Washington View W 08/31/56 (Faxon-Keller)
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Port Washington Substation LIRR valuation 
10/25/1918 Archive: Dave Morrison
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Port Washington Station passenger yard View N 8/1962 Archive: Dave Keller
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Port Washington Station 8/30/1908 view S 
Main Street Photo: Kevin Wong

M7 #7750 Train #6426 (Penn-Port Washington)
west of Port Washington - View S 7/10/2022
Photo/Archive: Jeff  Erlitz

The yard switch indicators were installed maybe 20 years ago. This yard has US&S/Ansaldo/Hitachi YM-2000 switch machines, but they are not the trailable type.  The Section A dispatcher in Jamaica controls these yard switches, as well as the rest of the branch.  Jeff Erlitz

PORT WASHINGTON BRANCH - FREIGHT LOCATIONS 

LIRR 1919 CR4:

Elmhurst:
Elmhurst Coal Co.
E. R. Durkee & Co.

Great Neck Junction:
Queensboro Lumber Co.
Heinrich Francke Sohne & Co.
H. K. Lines
Concrete Products Co.
Nathan Manufacturing Co.

Broadway:
F. Storm

Great Neck:
Bayside Coal & Supply Co.
Gregory Coal and Lumber Co.

Port Washington:
C.W. Copp
Munson Brothers

1958 Emery maps:

Elmhurst:
Knickerbocker Ice Co.
E. R. Durkee Co.

Corona:
Corona Fuel Co.

Flushing:
Con Edison Co. Warehouses and Pole Yard

Auburndale:
American Hospital supply Co.
County Fuel Co.

Bayside:
Marben Lumber & Flooring Co.
C. H. Hawley Coal Co.
Queensborough Lumber Co.

Great Neck:
Gregory Coal & Lumber Co.
Great Neck Lumber Co.
North Shore Mason’s Supply Co.

Port Washington:
Port Fuel Co.
Port Washington Lumber Co.
Donald D. Wyeing Inc. (Bldg Materials)

Research: Dave Keller

LIRR Maps -1966:

Corona:
Queens Scrap
Willets Point Scrap
Team Yard
Empire Millwork
Con Edison
A&P Tea Company
Emenee Industries
Daitch Shopwell
Niemand Bros.
J.R. Kramer
Prudential Paper

Bayside:
Team Track
Marben Lumber & Flooring

Great Neck:
North Shore Mason Supply
Port Washington:
Donald D. Wyeing Inc. (Bldg Materials)
Port Washington Lumber Co.
Research: Steven Lynch

 

LIRR Maps -1986:

Corona:
Fodera
Bono Sawdust
J.J.T. Trucking
Team Tracks
American Bakeries
Niemand Brothers
Dynamic Plastics

Great Neck:
North Shore Mason Supply
Mohawk Blacktop

Research: Steven Lynch

09/22/2024