BuddR32 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 1:35 am
MattAmity90 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:16 pm
The mushroom light (they're vanishing and being replaced) is a symbol of the LIRR since the 1960's. Found at many stations, from the temporary stations during elevation of the Babylon Branch, to the Long Beach-Far Rockaway-West Hempstead-Hempstead-Main Line, they are universal at many of the 124 stations. Although most stations have had them removed for energy efficient lights which I'm glad they are doing, but I'll miss the lights.
Ah, understood, thanks. I thought it was referring to something on the M3. I've never heard them called mushroom lights. I've refered to them as the (less politically correct) Chinaman hat lights.
That's alright, they do and the politically correct term would be rice hat lights. Many railroaders and websites refer to them as mushroom lights. If you take a look at the lights they look like mushroom heads. They are actually full of Mercury which is why they are being phased out. A good majority of the stations have replaced them with energy-efficient lights. Examples of stations with them or used to have them:
-Huntington, Cold Spring Harbor, Syosset (used to), Westbury (used to), Carle Place (used to), Mineola, Merillon Avenue, New Hyde Park.
-Country Life Press, Garden City, Nassau Boulevard (used to), Stewart Manor (used to?).
-Found on walkover bridges at Ronkonkoma Branch stations, not anymore).
-Amityville, Merrick (used to), Freeport, Baldwin (used to), Rockville Centre (used to). Massapequa Park (only grade level, Bellmore, Merrick temporary stations).
-Long Beach, Far Rockaway, West Hempstead, Port Washington, and many City Terminal Zone stations.
This is the train to (NYC). Stopping at: Babylon, Lindenhurst, Copiague, Amityville, Massapequa Park, Massapequa, Seaford, Wantagh, Bellmore, Merrick, Freeport, Baldwin, Rockville Centre, Lynbrook, Valley Stream, Jamaica, Kew Gardens, Forest Hills, Woodside, Penn Station OR Grand Central.