Riverhead Railroad Festival

Riverhead Railroad Festival
The 2005 Riverhead Railroad Festival will be held at our Riverhead site on Saturday August 27 and Sunday August 28. This year's theme will be "The End of Steam Operations on Long Island". A part of this theme will be a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the End of Steam Ceremony. There will be exhibits about steam operations and the change-over to diesel. Also at the festival you can enjoy:

- a historic photo exhibit
- model train displays
- visiting historic LIRR cars
- kids can ride our miniature train
- mini-theater showing film/video footage
- collectible train and toy sale
- food, music and other entertainment

www.rmli.org

Wait... there are trains on Long Island?

yup but just not Metro North Trains

DutchRailnut wrote:yup but just not Metro North Trains

Once I saw a Metro North train on LIRR tracks in Massapequa, but this was circa 1984-5. I have no idea why it was there.

was that the one with the FL9's on that fan trip?

also LIRR trains were on MN tracks plenty of times in the late '90s

So wait... there are TRAIN MUSEUMS on Long Island, too? I'm not sure I follow...

-otto-

Long Island 7285 wrote:was that the one with the FL9's on that fan trip?

also LIRR trains were on MN tracks plenty of times in the late '90s

No. I think it was an M series or at least it looked like an M series train. I don't remember it having very many cars. Two, maybe four at the most.

I was a member of The NRHS And We Had lot of Trip's on MN tracks From 1990 to 1994 I Have Photos of The Fantrip's The Long Island Sunrise Trail of The NRHS Put on Great Fantrip's Over The Year's