Mineola-Garden City Yard

Hi Fokls,

was this located here: http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/mineol ... er1926.jpg OR somewhere along here: http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/centra ... Huneke.jpg


Thank you.

It was located at #39 on this map from your site.
http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirrtr ... y-1966.jpg

The track from the second map was long gone in 1985 when that picture was taken.

Northeast corner of Franklin Ave. and 11th Street. That's soon-to-be Winthrop Hospital facility, formerly Sears and originally Bloomingdales. How times do change!

View is SE towards the US Post office across Quentin Ave. (far left) at #39 location as suggested earlier, yes?

Yes, except the cross street is Quentin Roosevelt Blvd.

Norton wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 2:52 pm Yes, except the cross street is Quentin Roosevelt Blvd.

Oops, thanks!

Love the picture of the train pulled by an L-2 running short-hood forward through the yard. Let's see more in and around the yard!!!!!!!

Teutobergerwald wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:08 pm Love the picture of the train pulled by an L-2 running short-hood forward through the yard. Let's see more in and around the yard!!!!!!!

Not in the yard, but...
On a cold late-afternoon in January, 1985, the RF-48 heads back west after finishing its work on the Garden-Mitchel Secondary. Just about to flag the busy crossing at Clinton Road in Garden City, it will be a slow ride home with the eastbound commission hour already under way. Photo/Archive/Info: Jay Bendersky

The Mineola-Garden City Freight Yard in an unusually busy day, even for almost 30 years ago! The RF-7, with 2 L-2's has just crossed Stewart Avenue re-entering the yard, and Work Extra 152 is in the clear waiting for the RF-7 to get their work done. Today, the yard's future remains uncertain with the re-development of the Nassau Coliseum. The RB&BB Circus Train is the lone tenant of the Garden Mitchel Secondary just once every year...July, 1986 Photo/Archive/Info: Jay Bendersky

What is the yellow structure at photo left center?

Might be a Burro Crane on a flatcar. Its a work train.

Great stuff!!!!!! Keep it coming!

452 Card wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 8:38 amMight be a Burro Crane on a flatcar. Its a work train.

Perhaps this one?