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Head-end View wrote:Thanks nyandw ! Very interesting history.Thank you. Always looking to add!
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Head-end View wrote:Thanks nyandw ! Very interesting history.Thank you. Always looking to add!
452 Card wrote:1)"I fall for the late Oyster Bay and get a Yellowbird and three Zips for the eastbound out of the Storage Yard. So much for controlled emergency stops tonight!"I'm always looking to add specific LIRR phrases as Dutch indicated prior that phrases were not only LIRR utilized. OK: Yellowbird?
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gamer4616 wrote:"down the avenue"Thanks folks... keep 'em coming! Define yellowbirds, please.
nyandw wrote:What are the yellowbirds?Would these be the "yellowbirds"?
Kelly&Kelly wrote:I've several times heard the older generation (those hired in the 40's and 50's) refer to the Montauk Branch as "the Southern Road".Thanks, anyone else concur or elaborate?
krispy wrote:K&K is highly versed in such things, and I eagerly look forward to a book some time in the future. I can vouch for this, some of the old farts who taught me Hall mentioned this as well. Jay and Hall were so big as to merit levermen, and so portions of the interlocking board had letters painted on them to denote various routes that the train director would shout out to the leverman. One such route was "S to O", and it stood for Southern Road. A brief explanation followed about the various lines that were part of the LIRR, but I was brand new, bewildered by the mess of paint on the board, and having to learn this from some truly eccentric characters, so alas I can't recall the specifics.Thanks to you both. I din't intend to indicate that K&K was inaccurate, but rather to have further insight. Always appreciate the new info.