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They have the PM DM to Oyster Bay Making that train First stop east of Jamaica Roslyn,Glen Street,Oyster Bay Mineola is an optional stop to add. Before we get into the costs being prohibitive. Would the expansion of electric service to Oyster Bay actually provide faster service and better performanc...

I am not one to make decisions but DE402 has hit some valid points as well. Things do have to change and part of doing business is taking risks. Regardless if the LIRR is Taxpayer or Private the risks are the same. There needs to be more diesel equipment for Montauk trains and up to and including th...

Pretty cool! It's a very nice vision for a model railroad. I have seen your site and your equipment It looks very good. If I may add some. Why not sit down with the (begin fiction)LIRR and and negotiate to handle the freight over their trackage? You can the lower Montauk, Bushwick, Bay ridge branche...

This topic is leading me into asking why did the LIRR severely short hand their diesel fleet? regardless of the crap of power they chose what was the excuse they used to not buy enough bi-level cars? an even 200 coaches including the cab cars would have been suffice.

Thanks for the informative post.
The M1 seemed to be ahead of their day with a primitive ASI and an ATO function.
What was the reasoning behind stations such as the WTC and Riverhead and JFK for on the signs?
Was it just high ambitions? possible dreams of the day to extend FBA to the WTC and so on?

This has been discussed sometime ago. They were in fact destination roll signs, They were manually adjusted per branch by the crew. I believe they only said the "branch" the trains were traveling on. The sign in the engineers cab would say BABYLON and the same for the ones on the side. I a...

I have a 4" high wall of clear plexiglass or what ever you want to call it around my entire layout. It does come in very handy in protecting spills from leaving earth and it does provide the protection from a kid trying to reach up and touch it. I never had any "cat" problems as I don...

Noel Is correct. With the correct placement and building of passing sidings bidirectionally signaled it would be much more efficient as a starting measure then rushing to electric service and double tracking. The LIRR under used many of it's sidings on the Port Jeff branch and even Montauk where the...

With high gas prices it does not matter if investing public dollars into rail is going to be the best thing or the worst. America has suffered a lot when it became a gas guzzling nation after the interstates were built and we gave up the rails for the roads. now the time has come to look for more al...

The beauty of being an American Is the freedom of expression and the bold imagination of many of the great people in this nation. The Lackawanna Cutoff was made 100 years ago by a private enterprise by visionaries of that day who dreamed "what IF we had this straight line to go from point A to ...

From all the negative attitude and lack of positive outlook and optimism It has become crystal clear that there is no place for LIRR equipment operation and/or preservation on LI. Why not do what's best for the Steam loco. (My dream is to see it operate on home rails, which seems to be almost imposs...

The standard crew would consist of Engineer, Conductor, and Brakeman, MoE Car Inspector (LIRR CREW) "Steam Engineer" and "Fireman" (could possibly be RMLI volunteers ) The LIRR Engineer would in this case act and a Pilot for the "steam qualified crew" whom are not quali...

hrfcarl, You made very valid points. I mentioned years ago to put 39 on the back burner and put all resources into 1556 and at least 1 of the 2 Pullmans at the time. The whole idea was shot down and they pushed me away and said they have to get 39 done. I was visioning a museum with the following. A...

I would be curious to find out the facts about historic equipment built before 1950 if it actually has to comply with the speed restrictions over crossings. I believe the MAS is 75 or even 80 if this is true then with the proper ASC and yes PRR steam did have cab signals, would be able to hold the m...

I'm glad to here something is going to happen; She's been rusting to the mount in Boliermatic* since 2005 when there was some public hype that she would be under steam by rail fest '07! The political bull crap is what's delaying this and making it cost more and be as painful as can be. If the county...