Suffolk Traction Company

Suffolk Traction Company All Items: Dave Keller research/archive unless noted.
Suffolk Traction Co. Traction Blvd. Canaan Lake, Patchogue 1914 MORE: SUFFOLK TRACTION - PATCHOGUE		Canaan Lake area-1939 aerial - SUNY Stony Brook The north-south road at the right of the lake is N. Ocean Ave. which became OLD N. Ocean Ave. when the new road was built just east of it. Dave Keller
Suffolk Traction Emery Map - Sayville c.1911+	Emery Map Key - Sayville map Suffolk Traction Emery Map - "Main Line" Sayville to Patchogue Village	Suffolk Traction Emery Map - Proposed "Holtsville Branch" from Roe Blvd., Patchogue to Port Jefferson - Sections 1-3 Only Section #1 (below left) built to just south of the LIRR Main Line
Section #1	Section #2	Section #3	All Emery Maps courtesy SUNY - Stony Brook
Suffolk Traction Co. Dedication 8/23/1907 A big day in Patchogue after many years of negotiations, the Suffolk Traction Co., based out of Patchogue, agreed to install a trolley network in and out of the Village. In this photograph, this is Mr. Benkenstein driving the first spike out in front of the Lace Mill on West Main Street after a deal had been struck in August of August 23, 1907.Archive: Chris Klug Suffolk Traction Co. South Ocean Ave. 11/1907 Workers from the Suffolk Traction Company laying down ties for street battery car tracks out in front of Howard S. Conklin's store. Archive: Chris Klug		East Hampton Star 8/23/1907 The Long Islander 8/23/1907	Suffolk Traction Co. - LIRR Agreement 5/07/1912 Archive: Art Huneke
The Federal Storage Battery Car Company, New York built "Beach" cars equipped with Edison batteries. The Electric Railway Journal "Performance of Storage Battery Cars" August 5, 1911 written after the testing prior to the 6/1911 delivery to Suffolk Traction in Patchogue. "...The individual record of this car is as follows: Ran no (sic) miles a day, made five stops per mile, carried seven passengers per car mile, operated over grades of 3.8 per cent to 4.5 per cent and required 63.4 watt-hours per ton-mile. The weight of this car is 7 tons, and its wheelbase is 8 ft. 6 in. It is geared for a schedule speed of 22 m.p.h. including stops..."
Battery Car no.1 first day of operation Sayville 7/1911		Battery car no.2 in 1911 roster shot photographed on South Ocean Avenue just north of the Patchogue town dock.
- Car no.2 stalled in Blue Point 5/02/1913 Note: Coal bags delivery in wagon Emery Collection/Archive: SUNY- Stony Brook East Main St., Patchogue track laying 11/27/1907 Emery Collection/Archive: SUNY- Stony Brook Laying tracks along West Main Street and installing switch onto South Ocean Avenue at Four Corners, Patchogue c. 1910. View looking northwest towards Swezey & Newins store at Four Corners intersection. (Thos. R. Bayles collection, Dave Keller archive) Delivery of the first car 6/1911 on Flatcar, Patchogue Archive: Dave Keller Battery Car No.1 on West Main St. Patchogue view E 7/21/1911 Emery Collection/Archive: SUNY- Stony Brook Battery Car No.1 on West Main St. Patchogue view NE 7/21/1911 Archive: Mike Boland Battery Car No.2 on Main St., Patchogue c.1914 view W Battery Car No.3 on N. Ocean Ave View SE towards Main St. 5/13/1912 Emery Collection/Archive: SUNY- Stony Brook		On this Hagstrom Atlas I've indicated in red the routes of the Suffolk Traction Company. The routes south of the Long Island Rail Road at Holtsville station had track laid and saw battery car service between Holtsville, Patchogue (down to the foot of the dock and as far east as Bay Avenue), and west to Blue Point, Bayport and Sayville. The route north of the LIRR at Holtsville was only a graded right-of-way. A steel trestle spanned the tracks but never saw car service across it except perhaps for testing purposes upon completion. Tracks were laid in the street in the upper portion of the map from Port Jefferson dock to the LIRR station but were never used and crossing frogs were never installed at the LIRR tracks. A route between Port Jefferson and Holtsville was proposed and projected to connect these two ending points but grading never went any further than indicated on the map. (Atlas courtesy of William Gilligan, mapping and data by Dave Keller) Patchogue - Suffolk Traction construction N. Ocean Ave., view NE c. 1910 Archive: Stephen Stikks Car no.3 southbound on N. Ocean Ave. approaching "Four Corners" 1/1915 Emery Collection/Archive: SUNY- Stony Brook Battery Car No.4 on S. Ocean Ave. View S
Suffolk Traction Co. Car no.1 derailment at West Lake Main St., Patchogue Archive: Chris Klug Mascot House at the foot of South Ocean Ave., Patchogue - colorized postcard c.1900 Archive: Thomas McMahon		Battery car no.2 - Mascot Hotel, South Ocean Ave - August 1914 Archive: D. Raven Foncell Constructed to the dock probably 1911-12 as service to the dock would have began in May, 1912; .the year PD tower was built to guard the LIRR tracks being crossed by the Suffolk Traction Battery Cars. Info: Dave Keller
Trestle under construction over the LIRR Main Line. View is looking NE from the south side of the tracks in Holtsville 9/20/1912. The abutment can be seen in the images inside the red rectangles.		Battery Car No.3 Holtsville Station c.1913 Note: The Holtsville depot with the end columns burned in 1914 and was replaced with another depot without columns. As the columns are still visible on this depot and the trolley was constructed to Holtsville in 1912, the photo has to be taken between 1912 and the fire of 1914 . . . hence my c. 1913 date. Research: Dave Keller Suffolk Traction Co. abutment view S - Long Island Ave., Holtsville
A steam crane at the Bayles Shipyard Port Jefferson Marina in 1918. This crane was delivered by the LIRR and set onto temporary tracks. Photo: Arthur S. Greene, Archive: Kenneth C. Brady		1918 photo view NE (left)