Stone Train Cabooses

LIRR required NYA to man the Stone Train Photo Location: Maspeth Yard 1997. The the rock train heading out to Prima Asphalt, Holtsville, NY with ore jennies. time were being used for the GROW tunneling project in Maspeth. The rock that was removed to build the tunnel was transported to Prima Asphalt in Holtsville, NY. For most of the first few years of the NYA, this was a unit train that ran weeknights (and sometimes on weekends).

Anyone with further photos with these in use?

Here are the two hacks that were used right when NYA took over in 1997, Maspeth yard.

Here are empties being switched down to the load-out point, also 1997 in Maspeth Yard.

This was NYA's first train, delivering empty jennies from Fresh Pond to Maspeth, May 11, 1997.

LIRR required NYA to man the Stone Train Photo Location: Maspeth Yard 1997. The the rock train heading out to Prima Asphalt, Holtsville, NY with ore jennies. time were being used for the GROW tunneling project in Maspeth. The rock that was removed to build the tunnel was transported to Prima Asphalt in Holtsville, NY. For most of the first few years of the NYA, this was a unit train that ran weeknights (and sometimes on weekends).