Anyone with a hard hat in the photo is an M of E employee. Transportation was exempted from wearing them.
MACTRAXX wrote: The 1993 Queens Interlocking wreck with the ore cars was a bad one - not only due to the locationunless it's a classic case of railfan false memory, i seem to remember them making trips out to bridgehampton under the early-early days of NYA. I was barely 10 years old at the time so take that for what you will.
it was the significant damage to track and infrastructure that was done. Was this the beginning of
the end of the use of the ore cars - which I remember hauled soil or other waste from Queens out
to the Holtsville area for disposal? LIST-NRHS wrote again about this accident in the "Semaphore"...