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JULY & AUG...it is that time of year... Those (RR) frequencies can be good for 1000 miles, tho normally takes a little more power. Heat and humidity can easily yield 100-300 miles... Elsie Kay

The Green Hotel went from the road up to the RR xpress sidings to Sunrise and I have no idea how far west. It had a porch and a parrot. I have not been up that road since the Freedom Train was there in (about) 1948..

Maybe some railroad.netter can buy it and remodel it to resemble the original Rum Junction station.
OR:Maybe someone can buy it and reopen the Green Hotel, improve the recreational areas of VS and continue its reputation as a bedroom community...

Well, just read this today and hafta stick in my two cents.... Statements by most to the contrary, there is NO SILVER BULLET, or gooder antenna. The limiting factor is noise which CANNOT be overcome by amplification. The best antenna is a dipole or beam which is a dipole with reflectors and director...

No, the one by the circle east of the LIRR was the other one..My fathr in law told me of a guy walking past his hardware store, across the tracks to the other one, seems the guy had run up a tab with my father-in-law... Some things never change.. My father-in-law owned the hardware store/Tydol (pump...

The hardware store at the end of Roosevelt on Rockaway was Browns, it took overnight for that name to bubble up. .. I haven't been even thru VS in years. I thought, matter of fact, I am almost positive, that Wetsons' demise was caused sometime in the sixties by reports of their using horse meat in t...

Yes,can confirm Bohacks, which may have become Safeway (not sure), bakery, Third Base, hardware store across Rockaway where Roosevelt dead ends, Friend of mine (Bergdahl) worked there in the fifties, he just passsed on last year [2010].. Wifes' father owned hardware store/tydol station in triangle C...

might want to listen to the nearest dragging equipment detectors, sometimes on someof them you even get train speed and most will give you the number of axles... ask locally for the frequencies, usually the local road freq..

don't even think about xmtg.. Use celphone. Aside from the fact that is only semi-legal, you are treading on someone elses' turf Remember that no good deed goes unpunished.. If you stay on the scene you will probably get your radio confiscated and may get arrested.. Standing by tracks with camera no...

Statements by most to the contrary, there is NO SILVER BULLET, or gooder antenna. The limiting factor is noise which CANNOT be overcome by amplification. The best antenna is a dipole or beam which is a dipole with reflectors and directors. This topic is well beyond this post, but is well covered for...

not the first time.. several years ago one truck (or so) of a freight (if I remember) jumped the rail and ripped the hell out of the ties from somewhere west of(toward the old whitehall station) the n/s road that goes past the NG Bldg/rt4 all the way east, almost to the rt 4 crossing...Hellava mess....

Not a simple topic.... There is "ground wave" propagation and "sky wave" propagation. "Sky wave" (skip) propagation involves different frequencies and different layers of the ionosphere, sunspots, solar wind,meterior trails, aurora, and not a little black majic or Kentu...

I could have been more clear I guess... That grade crossing gave access to Sunrise from north of the tracks..It was just another crossing, with gates and a little man, a small hut, and a small coal fired potbelly stove with a pile of coal outside,. As I mentioned before, the two gateman were connect...

[quote="feisner"]Hi Ed, So the train was actually accessible from all of the grade crossings? It must have been a very, very long train. I don't imagine that it stopped 3 times in Valley Stream. Am I correct? not really.... the key words were: "from the west end of the station... :-D ...

well, the station platform just about goes over the hicks street underpass,actually past it, as there was car parking inder it west of Hicks, and that has been true since 32/33. from the west end of the Valley station one could see (b4 early 50's) the central ave crossing with its gates, and maybe f...