Suffolk
Traction Company
All Items: Dave Keller research/archive unless noted. |

Suffolk Traction Co. Traction Blvd.
Canaan Lake, Patchogue 1914
MORE:
SUFFOLK
TRACTION - PATCHOGUE
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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+
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Emery Map Key - Sayville
map

Suffolk Traction Emery Map - "Main Line"
Sayville to Patchogue Village
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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
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Section #1
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Section #2
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Section #3
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All Emery Maps courtesy SUNY - Stony Brook
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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..."
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Battery Car no.1
first day of operation
Sayville 7/1911
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Battery car no.2 in 1911 roster shot photographed on
South Ocean Avenue
just north of the Patchogue town dock.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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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
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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) |