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On separate pages:

Long Island Live Steamers

The New York & Atlantic Railway, lessor of LIRR freight operations.

Brooklyn Historic Railway Association and the legendary LIRR Atlantic Avenue Tunnel.

Railroad Eagles - Penn Station, Grand Central Terminal, etc.

Note:  There is also a Long Island Rail Road Historical Society, run by Dave Morrison, just (May 1999) retired as Branch Line Manager - Port Jefferson, Oyster Bay, and Patchogue-to-Montauk Branches, and the reigning expert on the Penn Station (and Grand Central) eagles*; it's an internal LIRR employees and retirees group which can be reached by snail-mail at "Oyster Bay Train Station, Oyster Bay, New York  11771" (where they have an exhibit in the waiting room).  They can be reached through Dave.  Dave is also the author of a book of LIRR steam locomotive photos (see below, LIRR Bibliography - with a special offer for readers of my RR pages).

SOME OTHER LIVE STEAM LINKS:

See also HOW TO BOOT A STEAM LOCOMOTIVE or

    Part One {1961}
        South Side R.R. of L.I.

    Part Two {1963}
        The Flushing, North Shore & Central Railroad

    Part Three {1966}
        The Age of Expansion: 1863-1880

    Part Four {1966}
        The Bay Ridge & Manhattan Beach

    Part Five {1966}

        The New York, Woodhaven & Rockaway R.R,
        The New York & Rockaway Beach Railway,
        The New York & Long Beach Railroad,
        New York & Rockaway Railroad,
        Brooklyn Rapid Transit Operation to Rockaway

    I.  Rockaway Beach
   II.  The New York, Woodhaven & Rockaway R.R.
  III.  The Tragic Story of the Big Hotel
   IV.  Operations on the New York, Woodhaven &
        Rockaway R.R.
    V.  The New York and Rockaway Beach R.R.
        1887-1898
   VI.  The Brooklyn Elevated-Long Island R.R.
        Joint Service to Rockaway Beach
  VII.  The Beginnings of Electrification - The Ocean
        Electric Railway 1899-1904
 VIII.  The Threat to Long Island R.R. Control of the 
        the Rockaway Traffic - The Flynn Cross-Bay
        Road
   IX.  Electrification of the Rockaway Service
        1905-1922
    X.  The Beginnings of Long Beach
   XI.  The Long Beach Marine Railway
  XII.  The New York & Long Beach R.R. 1880-1904
 Roster of Equipment

    I  Austin Corbin, Portait of a Tycoon

   II  History of the LIRR as a Corporation    1881-1900
  III  The Montauk Extension                   1881
   IV  The Cedarhurst Railroad                 1885
    V  The Whitestone Extension                1886
   VI  The Oyster Bay Extension                1889
  VII  The New York Bay Extension R. R.        1893
 VIII  The Wading River Extension              1895
   IX  The Montauk Extension                   1895
    X  The Port Washington Extension           1898
   XI  The Oyster Bay Sound Ferry & Boston     1892
  XII  Track, Track Changes & Right-of-way     1881-1900
 XIII  Service Facilities for Daily Operation  1881-1900
  XIV  Passenger Service and Fares             1881-1900
   XV  Rapid Transit Services
  XVI  Ferry Services
 XVII  The Freight & Express Business          1881-1900
XVIII  Rolling Stock, Types, Changes           1881-1900
  XIX  Switch Towers and Interlocks
   XX  Labor Relations on the LIRR             1881-1900
  XXI  The LIRR in the Spanish-American War
       Accident List
       Locomotive Roster
       Passenger Cars Roster
       Private Cars
       Station List

    I  The Long Island Railroad {sic} as a Corporation   1900-1916
   II  The Atlantic Avenue Improvement                   1896-1907
  III  Terminal Expansion at Long Island City & Jamaica  1903
   IV  Electrification: The Physical Installations
    V  Electrification: The First Services
   VI  Background of the Penn Tunnels
  VII  Digging the Penn Tunnels
 VIII  The Sunnyside Yards
   IX  The Jamaica Grade Elimination
    X  North Side Elevation & Electrification
   XI  Four Improvements:  Glendale Cut-off
                           Maple Grove Cut-off
                           Cold Spring Harbor Realignment
                           Woodside-Winfield Cut-off
  XII  Holban Yards and the Hollis-Queens Elevation
 XIII  The Cedarhurst Cutoff
  XIV  Rails, Roadbed and Extensions
   XV  Passenger Services                                1900-1916
  XVI  Marine Operations                                 1900-1916
 XVII  Fares and Fare Structures
XVIII  Freight, Baggage & Express Business
  XIX  Rolling Stock Changes
   XX  Towers, Signals & Interlocks
  XXI  Labor Relations
 XXII  The Long Island RR in the Farm Business
       Accident List
       Roster of Non-Electric Passenger Cars
       Roster of Electric Passenger Cars
       Roster of Locomotives 1900-1917
       Station Supplement

Here's Vince addressing the gathering at the 100th Anniversary celebration of the Oyster Bay station on Saturday, 07 Sep 2002:

(cropped from photo by D. Morrison - all rights reserved)
{that's I in the red #35 tee-shirt on the left}

The next most authoritative (and far more readily available) are those by prolific writer Ronald P. (Ron) Ziel:

    "Steel Rails to the Sunrise - The Long Island Railroad",

    "The Long Island Rail Road in Early Photographs", Ron Ziel,

    "Electric Heritage of the Long Island Rail Road - 1905-1975",

    "Victorian Railroad Stations of L.I.", Ron Ziel, Sunrise Special,

    "American Locomotives in Historic Photographs - 1858 to 1949",

"Brooklyn's Waterfront Railways - A Pictorial Journey", Jay Bendersky,

For a much older history, the Long Island Division of the Queens Borough Public Library (89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica) has:

"Long Island Rail Road Steam Locomotive Pictorial: A Collection of Photographs" (paperback), David D. Morrison, December 1987, Cannon Ball Publications, ISBN 0945089007.

"Diesels of the Sunrise Trail - A color compendium of Long Island Rail Road Diesels, Electric Locomotives and Self-Propelled Railcars", John J. Scala, The Weekend Chief Publishing Co., Mineola, New York 1984, ISBN 0-9612814-0-5, LoC 83-91415; photo collection (mostly color), heavily captioned, with history, full roster.

"Long Island Rail Road Memories - The Making of a Steam Locomotive Engineer", Richard J. Harrison, Quadrant Press, New York, 1981, ISBN 0-915276-36-4, illustrated (b&w) history.

"Long Island Rail Road - A Pictorial Record of the Steam-to-Diesel Transition East of Jamaica", Frederick A. Kramer, with photographs by John Krause, Carstens Publications, Inc., Newton, New Jersey  07860, date unknown, ISBN 911868-34-8.

"Change at Ozone Park, A History and Description of the Long Island Rail Road Rockaway Branches", Herbert George, RAE Publishing, Flanders, NJ, 1993 (no ISBN or LoC).

" The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station", Lorraine B. Diehl (e-mail:  lbdiehl@aol.com), published by Four Walls Eight Windows, 39 West 14th Street, New York, New York  10011, 1985, ISBN 1-56858-060-6, LoC 96-21056).

"Manhattan Gateway: New York's Pennsylvania Station, William D. Middleton (George H. Drury, Editor), Kalmbach Publishing, July 1996.

"Sunnyside: The World's Greatest Passenger Terminal Yards, Nicholas Kalis. The KEYSTONE, Volume 29, Number 1, Spring 1996 (pp. 15-62).

"The Long Island's Switching Gems - The C51S and C51SA", Michael Boland, The KEYSTONE, Volume 31, Number 3, Autumn 1998 (pp. 39-62).

"Rails to the Rockaways, Part I", and "Part II", Michael Boland, 2-part series in The KEYSTONE, Volume 32, Number 2, Summer 1999 (pp. 11-62) and Number 3, Autumn 1999 (pp. 34-52).

"Long Island Rail Road Double-Deck Coaches", Michael Boland, The KEYSTONE, Winter 1992.

Railpace Newsmagazine, September 1992, cover and pp. 20-31, feature article by

The LIRR put out a little pamphlet, for its 125th anniversary in 1959, on its history (reissued in hard-cover with an inset medallion in conjunction with the 1962-63 "World's" Fair) which may be available in some library history collections; "The Long Island Railroad Company - 1834-1959 for 125 years...Long Island's Main Line to the Mainland", illustrated (b&w).

See also bibliographies on pages covering more specific subjects, such as the BEDT (Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Railroad), the Degnon Terminal Railroad, and boxcabs.

For motion pictures of LIRR steam in it's (Pennsy) glory days of the '50s, look at Ben Young's old hand-wound 16mm films from the "PENNSYLVANIA GLORY" tapes, Benjamin T. Young, Jr., especially Volume 1, produced and distributed by Herron Rail Video, 2016 North Village Avenue, Tampa, Florida  33612.   (URL added 05 Feb 03)

The Library of Congress has a map of the Central Rail Road Extension Company of Long Island.

Addenda -

On 28 Feb 02, retired ex-LIer Paul Hessler sent me some more citations, which necessitated creating yet another page to fit them in:

"Long Island Heritage, the G-5 1924-1955", Ron Ziel, 1979, Railroad Heritage Press, New York, NY.

"Pennsy K-4s Remembered", Frederick A. Kramer, 1992, Bells & Whistles, Westfield, NJ

"Next Stop Grand Central", Stan Fischler, 1986, The Boston Mills Press, Erin, Ontario, Canada

"Commuter Railroads, A Pictorial Review of the Most Traveled Trains", Patrick C. Dorin, 1957,
    Bonanza Books, New York, NY

"Change at Jamaica - a commuter's guide to survival", Warren Goodrich, 1957,
    The Vanguard Press, New York, NY

Thanks, Paul!

Continuing:

"Long Island's Lovable Double-deckers - Photos and a roster of LIRR's unique commuter cars", Mike Boland, Classic Trains, Spring 2003, pp. 64-69.   (05 Feb 03) and (06 Feb 03)

Because the editor left out Mike's roster and notes, I posted them to my LIRR page 1.

BIG NEWS! - Dave Keller and Steve Lynch have produced a SECOND book of Dave's LIRR photos, many never before seen by the public, entitled:   (20 Sep 05)

The well-received first volume is: