Surviving LIRR Freight Houses

nyandw wrote:

krispy wrote:Country Life Press, and may have been one farther up north in the old wye, although that could've been a track shanty, etc.

Interesting, anyone with a photo of CLPress current freight house?

Best,
Steve

No, I think he was just talk'in about the old station building thats one big mess.



lirr415-Peter

Here's a shot of the Amagansett house ...


I don't have a good one of Oakdale, but I believe that's it behind the end of Platform B in the background...

lirr415 wrote:

nyandw wrote:

krispy wrote:Country Life Press, and may have been one farther up north in the old wye, although that could've been a track shanty, etc.

Interesting, anyone with a photo of CLPress current freight house?

Best,
Steve

No, I think he was just talk'in about the old station building thats one big mess.

If you look at aerial surveys, there is a another building further north, almost directly at the wye.

Ok. I haven't been to Montauk in a year. I hope to do it again soon though.

Speaking of Montauk, that freight house also still exists, although it has been moved. Once located across from the passenger station, it's now located near the tail of the wye where the railroad crossing is.

Jay

Thank you Mike on the Amagansett site photo. Here's Mike's nice site link: http://www.lirrpics.com/

I've started the Remaining LIRR Freight Station page: http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirrfr ... nsleft.htm

Seeking info and photos for the following:
LIRR Freight Houses:

LIRR Freight Dept. headquarters in Long Island City (old)
Port Washington
Long Beach
Bayside
Garden City Secondary at Clinton Ave, and if it survives today as a firehouse.
Hicksville, freight house on John Street
Bushwick freight terminal in Brooklyn was demolished recently (2004?) but a small section may still remain.
Oakdale freight house may still exist?

Thank you,
Steve

Bayside freight station dates from circa 1928 when the Port Washington branch was depressed into an open cut, requiring the need for the "elevator house". The 1924 passenger station house was built prior to the lowering of the tracks into the open pit.

Let's not confuse baggage houses with freight houses. Most stations had facilities for handling baggage, as many passenger trains had baggage cars or combines to handle check baggage with their passengers. Most elevated stations, such as Lynbrook, Valley Stream, Auburndale and Jamaica as well as the depressed ones such as Manhasset had baggage elevators and baggage rooms. These often had a loading dock.

A freight house was usually served by its own siding or sidings and had a loading dock for trucks. Freight houses handled less-than-car-load freight and usually contained a heated office for the baggageman.

Re: Queens Village frt house. This building burned to the ground many years ago. If i rememeber it was fairly large. If anyone has a picture I would hope the would post it.

The station had an elevator that was on the west side of the station, but that has not been used in many a year. I do not recall I ever saw it in action even when I hung around the station when I was growing up and that was a long time ago.

Regards tp all

Ray
Ft Myers, FL

Aerial mapping shows what appears to be a old freight platform and the remains of a small yard (with some MoW stored here) to the west of Queens Village station on the south side. Is this the old freight station, or was it closer to the 1924 passenger station, or on the team siding next the eastbound platform?

LongIslandTool wrote:Let's not confuse baggage houses with freight houses. Most stations had facilities for handling baggage, as many passenger trains had baggage cars or combines to handle check baggage with their passengers. Most elevated stations, such as Lynbrook, Valley Stream, Auburndale and Jamaica as well as the depressed ones such as Manhasset had baggage elevators and baggage rooms. These often had a loading dock.

A freight house was usually served by its own siding or sidings and had a loading dock for trucks. Freight houses handled less-than-car-load freight and usually contained a heated office for the baggageman.

http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/oyster ... lirrob.htm Freight house east of station. http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/oyster ... 8depot.jpg station, express baggage and freight; west to east

http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/patcho ... ch1910.gif Patchogue station and baggage south side, freight on north side siding.
http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/patcho ... chogue.htm related photos

Steve

Oakdale 6/28/08

I could be wrong, but I think the building at Country life press was the station.. The building by the wye was not the freight house, it was too small to be that. In any case here is a video posted on another web site that shows the hempstead branch, from hempstead west. The first stop is country life press, and the white building with the green roof at the west end is the building in question.


http://www.viddler.com/explore/labanex/videos/155/

The red brick house is the one in question.

The red brick house was too small to be a freight house.
By the way, the structure at the east end of bayside station was the freight elevator.
The freight house was located east of the staition, just before the pedestrian trestle and substation, on the north side.
There was a track that went to it. To this day it is a fenced in empty lot, at the base of the trestle on ther north west side.

Retired, that structure, which burned down in '70's was a freight customer siding, a flooring plank distributor.By the time I first explored it in early 70's, it was abandoned, with much product inside. The flames were very high because of all that wood in there. Bayside was never an industrial area, don't think the need for a freight house was there. It was a resort area for film stars and the like when NYC was "Hollywood" That structure at Bell by the bank was probably used for baggage, as folk came to Bayside for vacation, and some famous folk eventually moved there. See the book, "Old Queens NY in Early Photographs" by Vincent Seyfried. Chrocheron Park was the site of a resort, The Chrocheron House, above the Bay, before that bastard Moses filled in the shoreline to make Cross Island Pkwy.
I miss living in Bayside.
Joe