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around 2007/8/9 PT was quite busy, eastport feeds was taking in a lot of cars and there was briefly a customer loading waste oil on the "team" track on the lead into eastport feeds. at the time this job i believe was called as the RS-30/31 and ran 2 afternoons a week alternating with servi...

interesting that what is essentially the modern day fire island was a loosely mapped 'sand island' and sachem pond was the south shores only major landmark.

isn't this essentially what happened in the jay derailment several years back? back when helena was on the warpath...

all those years of rollerjobs have really gone a long way to protect the original paint on these units

a couple weeks back while visiting the island i caught a job running east to riverhead around midnight, they ran around at the station and switched paraco. it was a real treat to chase them through the woods in calverton and manorville in the early morning hours, is this job a night time run again t...

never ceases to amaze me how new yorkers, particularly long islanders will attack a fellow worker for simply earning for themselves and their family. i don't care if someone is sitting in a truck doing nothing for 85 hours a week, they are sacrificing their time and deserve to be compensated for it,...

i do not recall if the line had reverted back to conrail ownership near the end. if you look at old photos of the oak point trains, there usually is a SW1500 tucked in the consist to switch the evergreen. in the area around johnson ave near the bushwick branch connection it is fairly obvious where t...

unfortunately that ping in watermill is long gone, scrapped 12-15 years ago i believe.

well in the second photo the signal is cropped out and the colors in the christoper soundy memorial scrub brushes have come in nice and full

oh the poor marginalized communities of real estate brokers and landlords, they wouldn't be able to do mass upheavals of neighborhoods to sterilize them for the vaunted 'professional' class :( :( good on NYC for telling them to kick rocks, letting such an anti-labor company into city limits could ha...

The 1993 Queens Interlocking wreck with the ore cars was a bad one - not only due to the location it was the significant damage to track and infrastructure that was done. Was this the beginning of the end of the use of the ore cars - which I remember hauled soil or other waste from Queens out to th...

remember that SK wreck well, my father took me down to see it after it happened.

Jeff Smith wrote:Does NYAR run any freight out that far? .

nyandw wrote:

DutchRailnut wrote:non of these terms or phrases is LIRR specific , they are just as used on MN or ex NYC or NYNH &H people .

Thank you. Anything to add?

Actually, What’s with the term, hacks? The engineers were always so adamant about calling them by that name and seemed offended if you said caboose. The only other RR i've ever heard call a caboose a "hack" was the boston and maine, out here in the midwest calling it a hack will draw some...