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Holtsville Pedestrian Struck

 by mwichten ¦  Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:25 am ¦  Forum: New York & Atlantic Railway-NYNJ Rail ¦  Topic: Holtsville Pedestrian Struck ¦  Replies: 0 ¦  Views: 593

From Stringer News: Holtsville, NY- Just before 3am, MTA Police, Suffolk Police and Holtsville FD/EMS were called to the LIRR tracks just west of the Waverly Ave crossing after the conductor reported striking a pedestrian. The adult male victim was pronounced dead at the scene. MTA Police detectives...

Own a piece of LIRR History

 by mwichten ¦  Sun Aug 30, 2020 10:20 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Own a piece of LIRR History ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 768

Original Smithtown station. Only been on the market 2 days....
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3-L ... e=txtshare

East Rockaway 08/19/19

 by mwichten ¦  Tue Aug 20, 2019 3:29 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: East Rockaway 08/19/19 ¦  Replies: 1 ¦  Views: 1647

From the East Rockaway FD Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/1758129781075073/posts/2412680328953345?s=775535056&sfns=xmo “Early this afternoon, the East Rockaway Fire Department was notified for a car vs train at the Rocklyn Avenue railroad crossing. First arriving units discovered a car ha...

Bellmore Station Fire

 by mwichten ¦  Sat Jul 06, 2019 8:34 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Bellmore Station Fire ¦  Replies: 2 ¦  Views: 1615

Construction lift went on fire yesterday at Bellmore. Not my photos...

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Re: Service Disruption - Montauk Branch

 by mwichten ¦  Sat May 25, 2019 6:28 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Service Disruption - Montauk Branch ¦  Replies: 37 ¦  Views: 7697

Not mine- posted in a Facebook group.

Re: M9 and M9A Procurement & Acceptance

 by mwichten ¦  Tue Apr 09, 2019 1:32 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: M9 and M9A Procurement & Acceptance ¦  Replies: 863 ¦  Views: 230326

I’m sure they weren’t dragging the extra 2 cars around by accident :wink:

Re: M9 and M9A Procurement & Acceptance

 by mwichten ¦  Tue Apr 09, 2019 12:04 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: M9 and M9A Procurement & Acceptance ¦  Replies: 863 ¦  Views: 230326

Facebook is abuzz today about a 14 car test train, and much disbelief as you can imagine.

https://youtu.be/WSpzEklRd7c

Re: Railroad Cars at Reataurants on Long Island

 by mwichten ¦  Sat Mar 30, 2019 10:15 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Railroad Cars at Reataurants on Long Island ¦  Replies: 5 ¦  Views: 3897

I found this ad being used as wallpaper along with other historical newspaper ads....

I don’t believe there was ever a railroad car at the Red Caboose East location, just the Westbury location.

Re: NYA MP15AC 159?

 by mwichten ¦  Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:54 pm ¦  Forum: New York & Atlantic Railway-NYNJ Rail ¦  Topic: NYA MP15AC 159? ¦  Replies: 39 ¦  Views: 13708

Not my photo, but the caption on Facebook said “In the consist of 18G this morning. Looks like shes on her way home after rebuild”. Credit to the photographer Joe Aziz.

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Re: NYAR Train Sighting Thread

 by mwichten ¦  Sun Nov 11, 2018 6:19 pm ¦  Forum: New York & Atlantic Railway-NYNJ Rail ¦  Topic: NYAR Train Sighting Thread ¦  Replies: 1593 ¦  Views: 370055

Sat morning, 12:48am 151 and a GP38 took about 20 cars west through Ronkonkoma right after 8001 went west.

Re: MTA LIRR Double Track Project - Ronkonkoma to Farmingdal

 by mwichten ¦  Sun Aug 12, 2018 3:56 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: MTA LIRR Double Track Project - Ronkonkoma to Farmingdale ¦  Replies: 622 ¦  Views: 188657

Video from Friday which may assist with some off the questions above

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SZQGzy2XC ... e=youtu.be

Farmingdale to Ronkonkoma

Re: Grade crossing crash posts

 by mwichten ¦  Sun Jun 03, 2018 9:25 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: Grade crossing crash posts ¦  Replies: 30 ¦  Views: 7970

I saw them on 112 in Port Jefferson. It’s a good visual indicator across the abnormally wide crossing which will hopefully help the people who aren’t familiar with the crossing, easily confused, or rely way too much on the gps instructions and turn into the tracks. They look like the break away lane...

Re: #3100

 by mwichten ¦  Sat May 19, 2018 5:12 am ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: #3100 ¦  Replies: 69 ¦  Views: 17791

Any word on why it came back with one of the M3s? Did it go right back out again?

Re: M3s in Yaphank?

 by mwichten ¦  Fri May 18, 2018 11:26 pm ¦  Forum: Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) ¦  Topic: M3s in Yaphank? ¦  Replies: 12 ¦  Views: 4243

The cars were moved to the training facility yesterday.

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