Awesome to see spaghetti working the Port Jeff Branch one of my favorite Branches!!! Sometimes I can hear diesel trains in Ronkonkoma blowing for the crossings in Sayville!!!
I am an old man , 82, living near Phoenix. I grew up in Port Jefferson during the 1940's and '50's . As a child , I remember the big G-5 Pennsy Ten Wheelers with their melodious whistles, esprcially at night. I actually have a photo of THE No. 39 on the ready track in Port Jeff Station I took when I was 13. I also had a chance to ride around the yard and over the wye in H-10 Consolidation No.113 with an engineer friend of mine . A heady experience for a 12 year old boy...lol. Like other Pennsy built frieght engines, the 113 had that dreadful screeching Banshee whistle. BTW, the Wading River portion of the Port Jefferson branch was wiped out in the 1938 hurricane and never rebuilt.
I was just looking at Wading River Branch Ghosts and watching the train pull in. I sat on my grandmothers knee in the front seat of the 52 Buick at that gate when I was three or four and waved at the engineer of the steam engine as he crossed the road heading west. He waved back. The Stony Brook Station had a coal burning pot belly. The bathroom had a "short" door to allow enough heat from the coal stove to get in there from the waiting room where the stove was located. Behind the cage where the station master sat was dark wood lights and wires. Looked like something out of a western. I live in Wading River now. The fellow across the street. His grandfather went to high school in Stony Brook and took the train from Wading River to Stony Brook and back every school day. The old newspapers have a wreck happening in WR. Either a de rail or a failure to stop. I forget which. My mother traveled to the city every day and she said her white gloves would be gray from cinders flying in the open windows.
Love the videos A few details.The silver box below the PL signal in Port jeff was to activate the crossing westbound.Eastbound tripped the crossing,but leaving the conducter had to trip it by hand.
Thanks for posting. Particularly with the Wading River to Port Jefferson trail, which I've hiked three times in full at ages 68 to 70. Took me about five hours each time, with rather sore feet the day after! I know where the Miller Place, Rocky Point, Shoreham, and Wading River stations were located. It would be good to have some sort of historical markers noting the four spots. A lovely walk. I grew up in Setauket but used the closer Stony Brook station, which has changed a lot since the tracks were moved a bit south and the platform raised.
@Jim Allen Metal shed and lights, quite often. But the station building that predated the shed I don't remember. It was torn down in October 1960. I turned 8 that month and had limited access to my dad's car. 10 years older and they would have had to beware of my taking a memento of some sort. 😉
Great Video, it’s a shame they didn’t restore service to wading River and instead made a rail trail. However it’s not to late, they can still build it. A lot of the Changes they made for the Port Jefferson Branch Are good however they need Hourly service
Great video. I live about a mile north and east of Smithtown station. I too hear MU's blowing at Central Islip but it's pretty rare. I can also hear the diesel blow for the crossings east of Kings Park. All depends on the conditions. Sometimes I listen and cant hear the horn at the Northern Blvd crossing which is the closest crossing to my house.
I'm near St James and i never hear the MUs blowing, usually just the Port Jeff trains hitting Landing, River, Northern, Lake, Moriches, Mills Pond, and then Flowerfield.
Haven't watched your videos in a while but am glad to have seen this gem. I thought you made a good capture of the Connecticut shore at 05:03. Nice of you to present that classic depots ~ they have marvelous architecture and should be preserved as historical landmarks. Also nice of you to present Neil F. You mentioned delays and/disruptions to to new scheduling but, tell me something ~ isn't it true that there were FAR more complaints about delays and disruptions back in the 1960s & 70s? I lived in Brooklyn in those days and only used the LIRR perhaps two or three times at most. But IIRC there were infinitely more complaints back then. Look forward to your next presentation.
Long Islanders love to complain when given the opportunity. I guess being a New York region inhabitant makes that a mandatory requirement. In their defense, I must admit, this is a huge change in operations from anything that I am familiar with in my long life.
Actually it’s easier now to put a railroad down their since most of the ROW is cleared, my grandpa grew up in shoram took the train all the time, he took pics all the time of steamers coming in over the old stone bridges.
Nice video!!! BTW, Long Island Lighting(LILCO) has been out of business since the '90s and those power lines are now part of the Long Island Power Authority(LIPA).
Hey Tim great videos....I went to and from Grand Central from Ronkonkoma yesterday and I realized they're using more M7s than M9s....I was hoping for M9s cuz the windows on the M7s were very dirty. I wasn't too happy
Tim, speaking of dirty train windows, I requested an update at our last meeting on the situation at N. J. Transit. NJT is currently working in collaboration with Rutgers to develop a way to fix the surface of the train windows. Stay tuned......I'll keep you advised.
Tim, In Europe, it's common practice for rail lines and bike trails to co-exist. But we in this country just can't seem to understand that. As wide as this right-of-way is, there is plenty of room for a rail line. Maybe a light rail line to be used as a shuttle. And 'pardon my language' maybe even a bus way. I am not an advocate of the bus way.
I didn't realize how much space there was around that ROW. I'm sure there are some people that wish they didn't have to go to Port Jeff to get the train.
Thanks for adding the local railfanning flavour to my week!
You are from Britain, Canada?
@@3985uprr No sir, I'm from Cold Spring Harbor and now live in Bellmore. I just like to be different with the "Queens English" spelling of words. 😎
Awesome to see spaghetti working the Port Jeff Branch one of my favorite Branches!!! Sometimes I can hear diesel trains in Ronkonkoma blowing for the crossings in Sayville!!!
Every time a new song appears in your intros, i feel like its a new season of your series. love it.
Great job and I love it
I love it when you got the music, train horn, and when he says “Clear”
I used to live in Wading River!
Thanks for the info
Ah stony brook. I go there for dental work now. Used to be in brooklyn! Im happy with stony brook dental now. Love it
I am an old man , 82, living near Phoenix. I grew up in Port Jefferson during the 1940's and '50's . As a child , I remember the big G-5 Pennsy Ten Wheelers with their melodious whistles, esprcially at night. I actually have a photo of THE No. 39 on the ready track in Port Jeff Station I took when I was 13. I also had a chance to ride around the yard and over the wye in H-10 Consolidation No.113 with an engineer friend of mine . A heady experience for a 12 year old boy...lol. Like other Pennsy built frieght engines, the 113 had that dreadful screeching Banshee whistle. BTW, the Wading River portion of the Port Jefferson branch was wiped out in the 1938 hurricane and never rebuilt.
Great job and I love it
I was just looking at Wading River Branch Ghosts and watching the train pull in. I sat on my grandmothers knee in the front seat of the 52 Buick at that gate when I was three or four and waved at the engineer of the steam engine as he crossed the road heading west. He waved back. The Stony Brook Station had a coal burning pot belly. The bathroom had a "short" door to allow enough heat from the coal stove to get in there from the waiting room where the stove was located. Behind the cage where the station master sat was dark wood lights and wires. Looked like something out of a western. I live in Wading River now. The fellow across the street. His grandfather went to high school in Stony Brook and took the train from Wading River to Stony Brook and back every school day. The old newspapers have a wreck happening in WR. Either a de rail or a failure to stop. I forget which. My mother traveled to the city every day and she said her white gloves would be gray from cinders flying in the open windows.
Quite a story
Prayers for those lost in the plane crash near you in north Lindenhurst.
hello retired railfan horn guy its is randy and i like video is cool and super is cool thanks friends randy
Very interesting video. Thanks Tim😀💚
i KNEW it was Spaghetti on 664.!!!! that's fantastic.!!!! I'll have to go see his train at some point.!
Wow you caught lirr 407 at stony brook I actually saw that same train pulling into port Jefferson yesterday
I remember my aunt taking me to Stony Brook to visit family in Setauket. I remember the low platforms on that port jeff.
You should do some railfanning at Hunters point ave. We got some M8s in there.
I love taking the train to stony every day for classes! Finally we have about 1 train per hour with the new schedule.
Love the videos A few details.The silver box below the PL signal in Port jeff was to activate the crossing westbound.Eastbound tripped the crossing,but leaving the conducter had to trip it by hand.
Thanks for posting. Particularly with the Wading River to Port Jefferson trail, which I've hiked three times in full at ages 68 to 70. Took me about five hours each time, with rather sore feet the day after! I know where the Miller Place, Rocky Point, Shoreham, and Wading River stations were located. It would be good to have some sort of historical markers noting the four spots. A lovely walk. I grew up in Setauket but used the closer Stony Brook station, which has changed a lot since the tracks were moved a bit south and the platform raised.
@Jim Allen Metal shed and lights, quite often. But the station building that predated the shed I don't remember. It was torn down in October 1960. I turned 8 that month and had limited access to my dad's car. 10 years older and they would have had to beware of my taking a memento of some sort. 😉
Great Video, it’s a shame they didn’t restore service to wading River and instead made a rail trail. However it’s not to late, they can still build it. A lot of the Changes they made for the Port Jefferson Branch Are good however they need Hourly service
There sure is a great variety of renditions of “two longs a short and a long.”
Great video. I live about a mile north and east of Smithtown station. I too hear MU's blowing at Central Islip but it's pretty rare. I can also hear the diesel blow for the crossings east of Kings Park. All depends on the conditions. Sometimes I listen and cant hear the horn at the Northern Blvd crossing which is the closest crossing to my house.
I'm near St James and i never hear the MUs blowing, usually just the Port Jeff trains hitting Landing, River, Northern, Lake, Moriches, Mills Pond, and then Flowerfield.
@@evangouldtransit It happens but it's very rare.
@@mrjv61 i bet if we had another night like that and i went to an open area i would absolutely hear them.
My grandmother lives in Wading River. My whole family lived in Wading River when they were kids
Wow and you saw 407 at stony brook I actually saw that same isacted train after you saw it pulling into port Jefferson train station
Haven't watched your videos in a while but am glad to have seen this gem. I thought you made a good capture of the Connecticut shore at 05:03. Nice of you to present that classic depots ~ they have marvelous architecture and should be preserved as historical landmarks. Also nice of you to present Neil F.
You mentioned delays and/disruptions to to new scheduling but, tell me something ~ isn't it true that there were FAR more complaints about delays and disruptions back in the 1960s & 70s? I lived in Brooklyn in those days and only used the LIRR perhaps two or three times at most. But IIRC there were infinitely more complaints back then.
Look forward to your next presentation.
Long Islanders love to complain when given the opportunity. I guess being a New York region inhabitant makes that a mandatory requirement. In their defense, I must admit, this is a huge change in operations from anything that I am familiar with in my long life.
Actually it’s easier now to put a railroad down their since most of the ROW is cleared, my grandpa grew up in shoram took the train all the time, he took pics all the time of steamers coming in over the old stone bridges.
Do you have any of those pictures?
Nice video!!! BTW, Long Island Lighting(LILCO) has been out of business since the '90s and those power lines are now part of the Long Island Power Authority(LIPA).
Old habits die hard. I did mention LIPA later. Those power lines were installed by LILCO
I was born in NYC and raised on Long Island and still refer to the power company as LILCO.
Hey Tim great videos....I went to and from Grand Central from Ronkonkoma yesterday and I realized they're using more M7s than M9s....I was hoping for M9s cuz the windows on the M7s were very dirty. I wasn't too happy
Tim, speaking of dirty train windows, I requested an update at our last meeting on the situation at N. J. Transit. NJT is currently working in collaboration with Rutgers to develop a way to fix the surface of the train windows. Stay tuned......I'll keep you advised.
spent Many YEARS in port Jeff / stony/
And just noticed you did say LIPA later.😀
The LIRR ought to restore the Wading River branch.
yes!!! we can only hope
Tim, In Europe, it's common practice for rail lines and bike trails to co-exist. But we in this country just can't seem to understand that. As wide as this right-of-way is, there is plenty of room for a rail line. Maybe a light rail line to be used as a shuttle. And 'pardon my language' maybe even a bus way. I am not an advocate of the bus way.
Not a bus person but light rail would be feasible here.
I didn't realize how much space there was around that ROW. I'm sure there are some people that wish they didn't have to go to Port Jeff to get the train.
I saw a News clip last night showing a lot of frustrated LI commuters, due to the "schedule changes".
Is there such a thing as a LI commuter that's not frustrated?
What train the the flying yankee on the PM commute
I think a GC to Huntington train around 4/430
1658/1663.
@@3985uprr i saw him today.
@@3985uprr What days is Spaghetti man on 664 besides Wednesdays?