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Lots of interesting railroad history here.

Thank you Head End, for your kind words and your correction. I've corrected my comment. I'm lost on that other railroad.

I believe this is the first grade crossing accident in the past score of years at least where the victims were fleeing a crime. -REDACTED- But the media also ignored some interesting facts that even a preliminary review of official reports would have revealed. The engineer saved at least one life - ...

Richmond Hill Station was replaced as part of a Queens County grade crossing elimination project in 1928. As such, it was nearly fully paid for with NYC highway funds and was constructed as specified by the PRR. The Railroad was moving toward high level platforms for all new construction, especially...

I know of one car that was fully rebuilt with new air conditioning and M-1 upholstery seats, painted platinum mist (silver gray) with a blue stripe. This was in anticipation of keeping them after the first order of Budd M-1's arrived. The rebuilding cost was astronomical, and the Railroad used the c...

Steve, we always look forward to these updates.

We learned of the practice from a newspaper ad from that era. Perhaps 30 years ago we also came across a green sign for the " Commuter Ticket Photos --> " that was stored in the PA system amplifier room on Track 17/18 in Penn Station. Long gone now, along with the Western Electric vacuum t...

The railroad took the photos at a photo booth in Penn Station and perhaps other places.

I read in A Modern LI that from 2007-2017 we had six fatal grade crossing accidents involving car/train at the grade crossings between Floral Park and Hicksville. When did those six take place and where? That figure doesn't sound right. Here's the Railroad's last ten years: Fatal Grade Crossing Acc...

It wasn't the LIRR's management that was dragging its feet on installing speed control. The Railroad was bankrupt. The State of New York had been bleeding it for decades in an effort to force the PRR to turn it over to the State. For nearly 40 years, the State's PSC would not grant the railroad a fa...

Looks like School Street.

Let us sort out some of the technical end of this speed control stuff: Typically a railroad used DC track circuits for signalling. Consider that each rail is connected to one side of a 48 volt battery, with signal "blocks" being isolated from each other by insulated rail joints. At one end...

Just as reference: ...RAS on the LIRR was advocated for years by career Engineers at LIRR, two Italian guys from Long Island, Vic and Tony. These were not Locomotive Engineers, but signal engineers. The opinions of the transportation department and its Locomotive Engineers were never sought, and whe...

First installation was on the Port Washington Branch in 1951. Something about closing the barn door after the horses got away...

Perhaps more damaging than the Reduced Aspect Signalling is the lacking signal system consistency. Long Island seems to have written the book on numerous differing systems and "rules in effect" in different locations. We had color light block signals, position light block signals, manual b...