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Some LIRR action
Many thanks, Piere...
...and thanks to whitepass for this gem.
Best,
smyers
I believe that switcher is on the DLS and is by whitepass.Where did you find these cool ATSF Switcher-
Guido
Where did those assets in the trash pile come from?
Is that a proto LIRR route? A looooong time ago I lived on Sherwood Drive in Huntington Station and our house backed up to the LIRR tracks near Cold Spring Harbor station. This was back in '57 and '58. I was but a mere sprat then, knee high to a married grasshopper (first grader). My pals and I liked to hang over the fence in the back yard and wave to the crews (and the passengers). Sometimes
we would climb over the fence (split rail of course) go down the embankment (the track was in a cut there) and put pennies, sticks, and small rocks on the tracks (though my parents had told me not to lest I not pay sufficient attention and get run over. I remember the trains went through there pretty fast!).
Anyway, seeing this LIRR scene with a cut made me remember those days of long ago. One of the reasons I guess why I became a train junkie.
So if this is a proto scene where would it be on the LIRR?
One thing in particular I remember - I was waving to a train crew as they went by heading toward New York City (via Cold Spring Harbor station). They went by going at a good speed. Then way
down at the end of the cut I saw a big white cloud of something appear. I raced into the house and told mom "the train blew up!" She didn't believe me. However it turned out that a worker
driving a farm truck had been at the grade crossing at Rogues Path heading toward the farm (on the far side of the tracks from where we lived). The grade crossing was protected only by a bell in those days and the driver was deaf. He didn't look carefully both ways and didn't hear the bell. He got center punched. The white cloud I saw was the bags of fertilizer on the truck exploding. When my dad came home from work he took me down there. They were backing the train up to clear the grade crossing. I have a memory of a truck wrapped around the front of the locomotive. ALWAYS stop look and listen before crossing tracks (especially on a commuter railroad where the trains ran fast).
Anyway, memories from long ago...
Horace Fithers
Yes it is.[...] Is this on felix's route?