freightguy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2020 10:25 pm Steve would probably know this better. One of the LIST calendars has it being built on the back cover maybe like the early 50’s(1952). Said it was part of an employee publication that had a section “guess where we are” maybe an early 2000’s LI SUNRISE TRAIL calendar...
Years ago the LIRR's employee magazine, The Long Islander, featured a segment on railroad locations whereby the reader was called upon to figure out "where are we?" Such is the situation here, where the humble beginnings of Hicksville's (West John St.) freight yard are in evidence. A ballast train drops stone and a rare NX23 cabin car, fashioned from an X23 boxcar, brings up the markers. Photo: Norman E. Kohl
I'll try to find out the date.
Sidebar, yes a rare photo indeed:
PRR #492754 Caboose NX23A rebuilt by PRR from external braced framed boxcar. Renumbered LIRR #49 in 1947 Comment: Dave Keller - LIRR Historian
http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/caboos ... C-1949.jpg LI City, Arch Street Yard 1949 Photo: Geo. Arnoux