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We had a thread discussing what the whistles on the old MU's sounded like. While this is NOT Lirr equipment, I took this recently at The Illinois RR museum. This is pretty much how the LIRR Mu's sounded. Click on the picture, it should work. http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g32/lirrconductor/th_lir...

Taken at the Illinois Railroad Museum. While not LIRR this is what the whistles on the Mu's sounded like..

The M-1's had a lot of bugs to work out of them, and it took years. In the mid 70's it was nothing to be 45 minutes late getting into Penn in the Morning, due to the Jamaica bottleneck caused by equipment touble ahead. Then the air conditioners started breaking down, and they had to rehaul all the A...

Was ray the one that said HI Buddy to everyone? If he was, he told me once he could get me into the TV booth with Ralph Kiner, he and Ralph were friends. I was like yeah sure.. then one day I was at shea, and he said lets go see ralph. Was working a shea collectors job and had my uniform on. This I ...

in my original post, I posted a link, here is another.. http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/local-obituaries/william-ronan-first-chairman-of-mta-dies-at-101/nhmxm/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Doing ok unca chris..even better story, I let a nun ride because she fo...

in my original post, I posted a link

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/nyregion/william-j-ronan-architect-of-the-metropolitan-transportation-authority-dies-at-101.html?ref=nyregion&_r=1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; On one occasion, he and some of the top brass of the LIRR were riding from Penn To Jamaica...

Just dont let them give you 9946

Nice thought, but it does not work. Restricted speed is a speed not exceeding 15 MPH, looking out for any possible condition. If he ran off the rail, he violated restricted speed. Period, end of report. Even though there might be mitigating things, bottom line is Restricted speed was violated. Botto...

The LIRR did have a track that connected to the Subway in Flatbush ave Brooklyn. The track and switch were still in place when I hired on in 1973. It ran along the north side of the station to the west end of the number 2 and 3 line, on the west end of the number 2 and 3 line platform. The switch co...

30 days has september, april June and the crew that went on the ground.....

They were used at some towers until at least the mid 70's I remember them.

Is it still 261 Manual Block Between Locust and oyster Bay?

They used to give the train crews intructions in first aid, and cpr. They also trained the Crews in putting out fires on the equipment, and of course how to Isolate the coaches from the third rail, which often fed the fire. On one occasion we had a really bad traction motor fire at Bayside, the fire...