"THE CRUSHER" Long Island Railroad's leaf crusher was stored on Wellwood DEF during the daylight hours. Photos could be obtained from the Wellwood Avenue RR Crossing. This set ran the Ronkonkoma a... (more)

The former Long Island City Team Yard is viewed at the Lumber track. Delivery for C&M Lumber. This team yard saw deliveries of cooking oil, lumber and bricks. Due to the LIRR East Side Access proj... (more)

The crew are heading back to Fresh Pond after switching Kleet Lumber in Huntington. Kleet Lumber is the last customer in Huntington and is switched weekly.

FL9AC's 300,301 and 302 were returned to Metro North after serving as the Dual-Mode testbeds. One trainset was run from Port Jefferson to Penn Station and return every week day. They were not rel... (more)

"BRAKING WHILE HEADED DOWNGRADE". There was an alert for passengers traveling to the event in Barclays Center to change at Hicksville. At Hicksville an Electric MU from Ronkonkoma will pickup Isla... (more)

"CLEARING THE LAND" This Terminal interchanges with the New York & Atlantic Railway on Long Island. The sand was trucked out and also shipped in hoppers to Kings Materials in Brooklyn on the Bay R... (more)

The crew is pulling one empty reefer from DiCarlo Foods. The spur was constructed by LIRR track workers in 2005-2006.

"END OF DAY. OPENING THE SWITCH" The crew pulled six tank cars of liquid asphalt from Suit-Kote Corporation today. Conrail paint still in decent shape.

Lunch for the crew. Saturday run with a pickup from Cortland based CL-1. Time to pickup my son from SUNY Cortland and head back to Long Island.

Leased NS GP38-2 crossing Central Avenue to switch Natrium Products. Natrium products receives hoppers of baking soda.

With an earlier start time from Ronkonkoma the Greenport Scoot is seen in better light. The scoot has just crossed the Mill Road RR crossing as it approaches MP 69 on the LIRR Mainline.

The crew is reassembling the train for pull-pull operational at MP 59. The trip to Riverhead for the Paraco switch will be a quick one. No waiting for the Greenport Scoot at LD Block-Limit.

Another summer of Amtrak running to New York’s Grand Central Terminal. This summer major work on the empire connection and the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge. Train 239 bound for Albany Rensselaer is slo... (more)

Switching the small yard at Pine Aire. Conductor Tom Caliendo on the ground directing engineer Don Carman. The crew will head east of Ronkonkoma to switch Brookhaven Rail Terminal.

"CHRISTMAS BLIZZARD OF 2010. MASS TRANSIT SHUT DOWN" Christmas blizzard of 2010 brought mass transit to its knees in New York. At the time of the photo the LIRR was still shut down. Cover photo fo... (more)