LIRR at Forest Park and Richmond Hill 1997
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2015
- Some shots I took just before passenger service ceased on the Montauk Branch in Queens. Richmond Hill was the only station (other than Long Island City terminal) on the line with a high level platform.
Thank you so much for posting this!! I actually had the privilege of riding this a couple of times! I rode it from Richmond Hill out to Glen Head in the PMs, like, twice when I worked at my uncle's machine shop on Babbage Street nearby in the late Eighties. I even rode it from LIC to Haberman one time just to say that I had used that station lol. The last time I used it was shortly before the Lower Montauk was turned over completely to the NYA: I took my then 13-year-old daughter for a ride out to Oyster Bay from LIC because she was dying to ride those double-decker coaches. I wonder if she appreciates the fact that she is probably the only Millennial who can say she rode the Lower Montauk in a passenger train?
Man, I remember this. I lived about 5 mins. from the station back in the late 90's. I remember standing on this very same platform in the summer of 97' myself. They closed all the stations on the line the next year (due to low ridership). They sealed up the entrances to the platform soon after. Station signs stayed up until around 2004-5 & they eventually removed the stairwells around 2008-9. Still, it was a nostalgic time - the only thing that happens along this line now is the occasional freight that comes thru once or twice a week. My favorite intimate diner still sits beside the closed station though. Great food.
That sounds amazing. The nostalgia about the old LIRR and subway is really hitting me, and I was born in 1996!!!
I've been going to the Richmond Hill Flea market for a few months now (underneath the station). Have NOT seen a train, station closed on Hillside ave & Mertyl (they shot spiderman 4 and "Goodfella's) here !. We used to see freight move through Forest Park when we were on a witch Hunt at 4:20 A.M. ! "Salerno's restaurant Richmond Hill"disastrous double date from "Goodfella's" w/Lorraine Broccio
Hi, QNative! I, too, remember that station, including when they ran a STEAM locomotive through it. I also remember "The stand", which was a combination restaurant/news stand. I fondly recall Simonson's Funeral Home, and the (now defunct)Republican Club. As a kid, I used to play on their steps. If you're still there, I hope you will contact me.
@@josephglaser875 Hey Joseph Glaser! Unfortunately, I no longer reside in Richmond Hill which is still a very fond place for me. I've relocated to North Newark-Bloomfield, NJ (the rents in NYC were too ridiculously high for me to stay). But every now & again I still pass thru the old neighborhood & stop into the diner with old friends & family from Queens. I still remember the Comic Shop that used to be on Lefferts Blvd just off of Jamaica Ave & I worked part-time briefly at Rubie's Costume shop when i was in Jr. HS. Great memories! I'll be relocating to Charlotte, NC next year but will always cherish my Q-Boro days. Shout outs to Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, Rego Park & Brooklyn Manor - all of which were my regular haunts.
Hey Hockey Patriot, this is pretty nostalgic. This was also at a time when NYC was in a much better economic state & the real estate wasn't out of control high like now. If you think about it though, with so much gentrification & population growth throughout the city and a whole lot of it hitting Queens now who knows? We might even see this Montauk Branch make a comeback. And yes, they should reactivate the old abandoned Rockaway Branch as well - or give it to the NYC Subway as an extension.
nyc was always out of control believe it or not.
@@darlisaward3103 before the pandemic was the last sense of normalcy and peace, then came the riots and divisive vaccination tactics as was planned
Ah. I remember going to my grandmother's house here and looking out the window looking at the abandon train tracks. Thinking on how it would be to see trains running by the house. ( However I have experienced that living in Rockaway with the A and S trains ). Good memories. I hope they bring this line back soon! :)
They will probably not bring it back, but maybe.
It is used as a freight branch. 😊😊
I miss the 90's sooo much!
Thanks for bringing back just a bit of this oddball line. Richmond Hill, Glendale, Fresh Pond, Haberman, and Penny Bridge on the way to Long Island City. I've wondered whether the first three stations could have been kept open with better train scheduling and facilities. Haberman was nowhere near anything. Penny Bridge, marking the site where a long-departed bridge once linked Queens and Brooklyn, was near a cemetery. But Richmond Hill, Glendale, and Fresh Pond were in populated areas.
Believe it or not that was the original LIRR main line (before Penn Station opened in 1910).
@@1575murray The original main line is the Main Line via Woodside, which ran to LIC and still connects via Hunterspoint Avenue.
All I can say: That was great!
Amazing video! I always thought this was a pretty cool line, the LIRR running through an actual forest - in the middle of Queens lol!
...and to think that could take place again if ye old Rockaway Beach Branch is resurrected!
Damn I miss riding on those R40M/42 mixed sets on the J/M/Z lines
Breaks my heart to know this isn’t a reality anymore 😞😞😢😞😞
We lived just across the street from the station from 1974 to 1984 on 118th Street and I remember the diesel passenger trains. The area under the trestle in this area was parking for a Key Food and for Salerno's Restaurant on Hillside Avenue. Both long gone as was Jahn's Ice Cream Parlor. Lots of memories.
Wow, I thought this line stopped operating prior to the 90s. Great video!
The station would close a year later in 1998. Passenger trains continued to operate on these tracks on a limited basis until 2012. It is now freight only.
Richmond Hill closed in 1998.
That station on Jamaica Ave is closed
Them Green Lines tho....
I miss the green bus line it was part of my childhood growing up in Brooklyn and Queens new York now MTA bus took over all the private line buses in Queens and in Brooklyn
1985 or 1986 GMC RTS
Used to be a working line, used to be my first workplace nearby.
I was about 2 years old when you filmed this.
I see those green line buses on the q10.But I want them on the q6 ,q7 or q9A
I wish you have more footage of green bus line on other routes.
I miss the green bus line in Queens It was part of my childhood
Those older carriages wow
Nice...notice the parlor car?
And now the R42s are gone; funny how fast time flies
first train was the Oyster Bay
Awesome stuff
o yea i liv around here, i walk past these places almost everyday, that richmond hill station is actually still active
Dude , it shut down in 2004
@@Trainguy198 Not even. All stations along the lower montauk closed in 1998. That includes Richmond Hill
amazing
1:29 R42 Z TRAIN
That was a R40M
Nice park, nice place for trainspotting, how often is it possible to spot a train there? Even freight one will be good. Our friends live nearby.
No Passenger. Freight could be once a day or 5 times. I don't know.
@@trainluvr I've seen freight once in 2018.
Greg TranZlibitum There’s almost always freight cars at the old Fresh Pond station, and I don’t think that there’s a regular schedule for freight. I saw one by Fresh Pond at around 3:20 not long ago.
Greg TranZlibitum late response yes but I hear the horn multiple times a day. And see them more often than I originally thought I would. Sometimes they’re still LIRR work trains.
I'd love for this stretch of track to be reactivated for passenger service, but I'd make a new East River crossing and some underground realignments (for passenger service) in order to justify such.
Montauk branch you say?
G. Lee known as the Lower MONTAUK
Is that the Rockaway Beach Branch?
no it’s the lower montauk. Lirr service on the Rockaway Beach branch closed 1955-1962. This was shot in 1997
3:11 and as of tomorrow, all the equipment in this shot will be retired, RIP R42s
Those are r40M’s
@@E-man5375 The first pair is R40Ms, the other 6 cars appear to be R42s
why did it stop for?
It’s a passenger station... that’s what trains do sometimes
Are those shoreliner cars?
Those are the old LIRR diesel equipment, nicknamed the "ping-pongs" for how much they swayed. They were replaced by the current bi-levels not long after this, which is a big part of the reason they closed the stations on this line, as outside of Richmond Hill they didn't have the high platforms that the bilevel cars need.
Are those AMCU cars?
MP72/75 MUs converted to diesel coaches.
Was this line electrified?
isnt richmond hill abandoned now or no??
Yes it is.
It Is a abandones now
0:37 GREN LINES BUS
I still miss the GREEN BUS LINE and RTS GMC bus 🚌 😢
Must have been very noisy at that intersection.
Does anyone know why they stopped this service?
Very low ridership. LIRR wasn't making much revenue on that line.
I thought operations ceased in the 1960's
It did... sorta. The 1960s was the down fall of the lower montauk. after that passenger service was little to none. It was officially closed in 1998 but was continued to be used by freight
@@aydenamaya7951 A limited number of rush-hour LIRR trains continued to run on this line until 2012.
@@ss04to06 Oh yes i forgot about that.