Recently saw an old picture of Northport station, pre-1955 end of steam, with two tracks through the station, and spurs visible branching off both tracks in the picture, including a spur serving Karp's Hardware. Karp's is still in business today, but no spur serving it anymore. The only freight to be seen these days is the once a week four to six combination of boxcars & flatcars for Kleet Lumber in Huntington, which first comes to Northport to use the siding east of the station to run-around the train and pull it back west to push it into Kleet.
Anyway, when did the freight service to customers in & near Northport Station end, and when was the trackage through the station reduced to one track, with the switch and siding relocated just east of the crossing of Laurel Rd? Were the signals at Northport ever PRR-style position light signals, or always the pedestal signals visible at both ends of the siding east of the Laurel Rd crossing? Thanks!
Anyway, when did the freight service to customers in & near Northport Station end, and when was the trackage through the station reduced to one track, with the switch and siding relocated just east of the crossing of Laurel Rd? Were the signals at Northport ever PRR-style position light signals, or always the pedestal signals visible at both ends of the siding east of the Laurel Rd crossing? Thanks!
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