Long Island Rail Road

Long Island Rail Road

Port Jefferson Branch

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Publication Date: 28th October 2013

The Long Island Rail Road is the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name. As the busiest railroad in North America, it carries 265,000 customers each weekday aboard 735 trains on 11 different branches. The Port Jefferson Branch serves 10 stations from Hicksville to Port Jefferson and carries nearly 20 percent of the railroad's passenger traffic over its 32 miles of track. Hicksville Station is the site of the October 8, 1955, End of Steam Ceremony, when steam locomotives were retired from service. The oldest surviving station building constructed by the Long Isla... Read More
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The Long Island Rail Road is the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name. As the busiest railroad in North America, it carries 265,000 customers each weekday aboard 735 trains on 11 different branches. The Port Jefferson Branch serves 10 stations from Hicksville to Port Jefferson and carries nearly 20 percent of the railroad's passenger traffic over its 32 miles of track. Hicksville Station is the site of the October 8, 1955, End of Steam Ceremony, when steam locomotives were retired from service. The oldest surviving station building constructed by the Long Isla... Read More
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The Long Island Rail Road is the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name. As the busiest railroad in North America, it carries 265,000 customers each weekday aboard 735 trains on 11 different branches. The Port Jefferson Branch serves 10 stations from Hicksville to Port Jefferson and carries nearly 20 percent of the railroad's passenger traffic over its 32 miles of track. Hicksville Station is the site of the October 8, 1955, End of Steam Ceremony, when steam locomotives were retired from service. The oldest surviving station building constructed by the Long Island Rail Road is on this branch at St. James. Between 1895 and 1938, the branch extended 10 miles east to Wading River. The branch was not electrified until 1970 and that was only to Huntington Station, east of which is served by diesel and dual-mode locomotives.
Details
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Images of Rail
  • Publication Date: 28th October 2013
  • State: New York
  • ISBN: 9781467120135
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
    TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / Pictorial
    TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
Author Bio

David D. Morrison is a retired LIRR branch line manager and railroad historian. Author of 10 other books in Arcadia’s Images of Rail series, he is a major contributor to the website trainsarefun.com. He is on the board of directors of the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum, and he is an advisor on the LIRR 190th Anniversary Committee. He has given countless presentations to libraries and historical societies on Long Island, and he still enjoys doing so. He is frequently called upon by Newsday with questions pertaining to LIRR history.

The Long Island Rail Road is the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name. As the busiest railroad in North America, it carries 265,000 customers each weekday aboard 735 trains on 11 different branches. The Port Jefferson Branch serves 10 stations from Hicksville to Port Jefferson and carries nearly 20 percent of the railroad's passenger traffic over its 32 miles of track. Hicksville Station is the site of the October 8, 1955, End of Steam Ceremony, when steam locomotives were retired from service. The oldest surviving station building constructed by the Long Island Rail Road is on this branch at St. James. Between 1895 and 1938, the branch extended 10 miles east to Wading River. The branch was not electrified until 1970 and that was only to Huntington Station, east of which is served by diesel and dual-mode locomotives.
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Images of Rail
  • Publication Date: 28th October 2013
  • State: New York
  • ISBN: 9781467120135
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
    TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / Pictorial
    TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)

David D. Morrison is a retired LIRR branch line manager and railroad historian. Author of 10 other books in Arcadia’s Images of Rail series, he is a major contributor to the website trainsarefun.com. He is on the board of directors of the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum, and he is an advisor on the LIRR 190th Anniversary Committee. He has given countless presentations to libraries and historical societies on Long Island, and he still enjoys doing so. He is frequently called upon by Newsday with questions pertaining to LIRR history.