Sag Harbor Branch

Sag Harbor Branch Data and images courtesy of Dave Keller unless as noted.		Sag Harbor dock c.1870 Archive: Art Huneke
Montauk Branch constructed from Manorville to Eastport then on to Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor in 1870. There was no connection at Bridgehampton to Montauk until 1895.
The Sag Harbor Branch was built in 1870 and ran 35.25 miles from Manor on the main line to Sag Harbor . As shown on this 1879 map there was no railroad line running east of Patchogue. Bellport was served by a main line Bellport station which became Bartlett when Patchogue to Eastport Junction was built and Bellport received its own station. Map/ Info: Art Huneke		Gas Car Shuttle service ETT No. 4 - Sag Harbor to Bridgehampton - 9/15/1935
SAG HARBOR BRANCH MAPS
Emery map Montauk Branch MP94-95 Sag Harbor Branch cutoff	Emery Sag Harbor MP95-96 Emery Sag Harbor MP96-97	Emery Sag Harbor MP97-98	Emery Sag Harbor MP98 to end of track
Emery Sag Harbor Branch composite map MP94-MP98 to end of branch - Design: Steven Lynch
BRIDGEHAMPTON
OPENED: 6/1870, BURNED: 7/6/1884 2ND DEPOT BUILT: 1884, AGENCY CLOSED: 1958, DEPOT CLOSED: 1/59, RAZED: 5/64 3RD DEPOT WITH HI-LEVEL PLATFORMS BUILT: 2000-2001
Bridgehampton Station view S c.1910		Bridgehampton Station view SW 9/20/58 (Solomon for PSC-Keller)
		PRR-leased gas car #4744 is laying up at the designated Sag Harbor platform across from the Bridgehampton depot. View is looking east from the rear of a moving westbound train. Bridgehampton depot is at the right – 1936. These gas cars were used wherever the LIRR needed them in shuttle service. One even ran on the Patchogue – Babylon “Scoot” for a period of time. (Wm. Moneypenny - Dave Keller)
Bridgehampton station looks quite forlorn on this cold, winter's afternoon with snow on the ground. (above left) The view is east from the westbound high-level express platform. The depot building is at the right with the double-bladed "BH" semaphore signal out front. The eastbound express house is in the distance. At the left is the designated Sag Harbor platform which sports a small shelter from the elements. At the far left, an express car has been set out. This image is from c. 1925, so the block office at "BH" was still in service, as evidenced by the semaphore blades still in place and steam locomotives were still making runs up the spur to Sag Harbor. It's possible the express car was brought down from Sag earlier in the day by a local freight and spotted on the siding to be picked up by a westbound Montauk train. Note the twisted light fixture on the platform lamp closest to the camera at the right. This was probably done intentionally to provide some directed light onto the express platform. (James V. Osborne photo, Dave Keller archive)
Bridgehampton Station view W from Rear of Train 6/20/55 (Faxon, Jr.-Keller)		Bridgehampton Station view E 6/20/55 (Faxon_Jr.-Keller) Signal BH Block Limit - Bridgehampton view E 4/1970 (Keller-Keller)
Bridgehampton Station Shelter Sheds - Night Exposure view SW 7/30/76 (Madden-Keller)
NOYACK ROAD
IN SERVICE: 1906 AS “LAMB’S CORNER” (per “East Hampton Star” via Richard Makse) APPEARS IN SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS OF ETT #49: 9/09/1908 AS “ NOYACK ROAD .” (Art Huneke data) SHELTER SHED BUILT: 1922. OUT OF SVC: 5/03/39 AND RAZED WITH BRANCH ABANDONMENT.
Noyack Rd. Station - Sag Harbor Branch c.1923 (Osborne-Keller)
SAG HARBOR
TEMPORARY TICKET OFFICE OPENED IN FREIGHT HOUSE: 5/1870. 1ST DEPOT UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT END OF AND PERPENDICULAR TO THE TRACK: 12/21/1870. OPENED: 1/1871. DEPOT WAS FOUND TO ENCROACH ON THE STREET AND THE BLDG WAS MOVED BACK A SHORT DISTANCE IN 2/1871. BURNED: 11/1873 AND REPLACED. (The burning is suspect data from V. Seyfried, based on photographic evidence to the contrary unless original depot was replaced after a fire by an identical bldg). Research: Dave Keller
1873 Beers Sag Harbor map - Archive: SUNY Stony Brook		Long Wharf, Sag Harbor postcard - Yard and enginehouse (center right) View S c.1910
		DEPOT EITHER ENLARGED ON ORIGINAL SITE OR ENLARGED AFTER BEING MOVED TO S. SIDE OF TRACKS. DEPOT MOVED SOMETIME IN THE 1890s. (Photographic evidence from 1903 shows an enlarged depot building well-weathered. Enlargement of the structure may have been made PRIOR to the move.) DEPOT RENOVATED: 10/1908, WHEN MONEY FOR NEW DEPOT WAS DONATED. (This renovation is suspect data from V. Seyfried and makes no sense as construction for a new depot began the following year [1909]). OLD DEPOT USED AS TEMPORARY FREIGHT / STORAGE BLDG AFTER NEW STATION OPENED IN 1910 BUT BASED ON A VALUATION BLUEPRINT, WAS GONE BY c. 1920. NEW BRICK DEPOT OPENED: 1910, AGENCY CLOSED: 1932. STATION AND STOP OUT OF SVC: 5/3/39 WITH BRANCH ABANDONMENT: 5/3/39. IN PRIVATE USE INTO THE LATE-1950S/EARLY 1960s WHEN IT WAS OFFERED FOR SALE. STRUCTURE RAZED: 1966 EXPRESS HOUSE BUILT: 1900. RELOCATED OFF-SITE AFTER 1939 AND NOT USED FOR DECADES (BASED ON PHOTO EVIDENCE). IN PRIVATE USE IN RECENT YEARS (2003+) FREIGHT HOUSE BUILT: ? RELOCATED OFF-SITE AFTER 1939 FOR PRIVATE USE Research: Dave Keller Photo: Sag Harbor Yards 1903 Hal Fullerton Archive: Suffolk County Historical Society-RMLI
Sag Harbor Station view SW 1878 (Brainerd-Huneke)		Sag Harbor Station view NW - 1903 (Fullerton-Keller)
Sag Harbor Station 0-4-6T #327 view E -1905 Archive: Dave Keller		The original Sag Harbor depot was constructed perpendicular to the end of track, similar to the second Montauk and today's Port Washington and Long Beach Stations. Several years later, as the building was too close to the road, the depot was jacked up, rotated 90 degrees and relocated to the south side of the tracks a short distance west of end of track, and parallel to the main sometime in the 1890's (per Ziel's Steel Rails) and enlarged. It later burned and was replaced. The locomotive (left) was former NY & Manhattan Beach 0-4-6T built by Rogers in June, 1883 as #61 for the NY&MB. It was renumbered #227 in the 1898 renumbering and was renumbered to #327 in 1905-06, being retired from service by 1912. Research: Dave Keller
Sag Harbor Station bricklayers - c. Summer 1909 Note: Natural gas tank at far right.		Sag Harbor brick depot nearing completion just west of the relocated older depot (far right) in 1910. View NW
Sag Harbor Station view SE c.1925 (Osborne-Keller)		Brill Gas Car #1134 at Sag Harbor station 4/1939 Archive: Dave Keller
Form 19 PRR Gas Car #4744 - Sag Harbor 1/20/1933	Form 19 PRR Gas Car #4744 - Sag Harbor 1/30/1933 Archive: Dave Keller	Brill Gas Car #1134 Crew at Sag Harbor 4/1939 Archive: Dave Keller
		Win Win Boerckel memo c.1968 Sag Harbor Form 19 - last Train Order #71 - 5/02/1939 (Win Boerckel-Dave Morrison) Note: "Sag Harbor to Y" meant the train was cleared to run westbound from Sag Harbor to the start of double track at "Y" cabin east of Sayville. It would have picked up additional orders via "PD" on the fly or at "Y" via T-box telephone if the cabin was unattended at the time. Research: Dave Keller
Sag Harbor Series F last cash paid receipt - Train #1922 last scheduled to run endorsed by Crampton-Conductor and Diedericks-Engineer 5/02/1939 (Win Boerckel-Dave Morrison)
Sag Harbor Station view S 1958 (Seyfried-Keller)		Sag Harbor station 8/05/1963 Photo: Brad Phillips
Sag Harbor Station view N - 1964 (Schneider-Keller)		Sag Harbor Station view S -1964 (Schneider-Keller)
Sag Harbor Freight House c.1930 close-up Archive: Art Huneke		Sag-Harbor Station and Freight House c.1930 Archive: Art Huneke
SAG HARBOR EXPRESS HOUSE
Sag Harbor Express House c.1918 Archive: Art Huneke		Sag Harbor Station valuation blueprint c.1916-1923 Archive: Art Huneke
ex-Sag Harbor Express House at private location 1968		ex-Sag Harbor Express House view E 1984
Sag Harbor Express House view E 7/15/2015 Photo: Dave Morrison		Sag Harbor Express House view E 7/15/2015 view NE Photo: Dave Morrison

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