by newkirk
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Moderator: Liquidcamphor
Many stations had a picket fence style divider between the tracks, so those locations can be ruled out. I suspect both photos are pre-1966.Just went through some old snapshots from December 1986 and found this one at Oceanside. What confused me on the first picture is why a baggage car on the Long Beach branch ?
Backshophoss wrote: LIRR did decent express business by hauling the Morning and evening editions of the Daily newspapers.Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know the LIRR was still using baggage cars for newspaper deliveries that late.
Bad Luck wrote:This is the Grumman spur in Calverton which went to the old Naval Weapons Reserve/Airport. Freight service ceased in 1985, and the rails (most of which were still there) were relaid a few years ago for NYA service.Should be the Executive Airpark (EPCAL) industrial park, if I'm right.
interface76 wrote:That one was determined as Floral Park a while back - Bellerose can be seen (already elevated) in the distance.Thank you, I thought it would have been on the south shore (Babylon Br), but I was wrong.