Chapter meeting information will now be found on the official page.

The Chapter publishes a monthly newsletter, the SEMAPHORE, with meeting notices, previews, and recapitulations, historical vignettes and feature articles, reminiscences by old-time railroad employees, and railroad modeling information.

The Chapter also was instrumental in preserving Long Island Rail Road steam locomotive #35, built in 1928 by the Pennsylvania Rail Road's Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania, as a Class G5 "Ten Wheeler" 4-6-0, and moved to Oyster Bay on 02 Aug 01, one of the two last steam engines to run in regular revenue service on the LIRR, and supports continuing efforts to restore the engine and return it to active service for tourist use.  Chapter members are also involved in the restoration of the business car "Jamaica", on display at the Wantagh Historical Society's preserved LIRR station on Wantagh Avenue in Wantagh (see SB,III's LIRR page).

The Long Island - Sunrise Trail Chapter of the National Model Railway Society is incorporated as a non-profit 501(C)(3) educational organization.  It was founded in 1966 to serve the Long Island area.  Membership in the Chapter also provides the full benefits of membership in the national organization, including a splendid bi-monthly magazine, the National Railway Bulletin.

Please note - Long Island is 120 miles long; the west end (Brooklyn and Queens) is in New York City and is primarily served by the (Metro) New York Chapter (no Website).  The far east end, eastern Suffolk, Riverhead and beyond, is primarily served by the Twin Forks Chapter.

                        Name  _________________________

                     Street   _________________________

                   Apartment  _________________________

                        City  _________________________

                        State _____________ ZIP _______


                    telephone number _____-_____-______

     Your favorite aspects of railroads (circle as many as you want)

     	Diesel/Electric/Steam	   Modeling__________gauge
	Rapid Transit		   Current operations
	Interurbans, trolleys	   History
	Train watching		   Train riding
	Motive power, rolling stock signals, maintenance of way
	Passenger, freight operations/equipment
	Photographing: Slides, movies, videos
	Collector of:  Photos, timetables, tickets, hardware, postcards,
				   other___________________________________
	Any other aspect not mentioned_____________________________________

     Your favorite railroad(s)_____________________________________________

     Your affiliation with other railroad groups:
     NRHS other Chapter(s)_________________________________________________
     ERA, RRE, NMRA, NARP, Museums, etc.___________________________________

     Would you be willing to provide a program of entertaiment?____________
     What kind?  (Slides, movies, lecture, video, other)___________________
     Subject(s)____________________________________________________________

     How, when and when did you first become interested in railroads?

     Have you ever worked or do you now work for a railroad?  If so, which,
     where, when and in what way?

     How did you hear of our Chapter?______________________________________

     Other hobbies, interests______________________________________________

     If resident of Long Island, how long?
     Have you resided elsehwere?__________    How long?_______________

     Principal training, experience or occupation

     Other information - please use reverse side of sheet.

Phone No.________________(Will not be listed in our annual roster if you so 
indicate.)

Your Name:__________________________________                      (Rev:09/95)

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Incidentally, did you know that the Long Island Rail Road is the only remaining railroad to still operate under its original name and 1834 charter (even though now a division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority)?  The B&O (also "Rail Road") was the oldest until it got lost in the CSX merger.  Also, the original charter spells "railroad" as two separate words; although many old LIRR documents and even some old cars did, in fact, spell it as one word, and it even pops up that way today on rare occasions, "Rail Road" is actually correct and, again, a unique, if minor, feature of the Long Island RAIL ROAD!

End-of-Steam Ceremony, LIRR, Hicksville, 08 Oct 1955

10-8-1955,Hicksville (See sign). Engine #39
and car #2924 facing east & engine #35 and
car #2923 facing west. Later, Alco diesel
#1555 replaced #35 & #1556 replaced #39.
#1555 operated back to Riverhead with car
#2923 but returned to Jamaica at 6:00 PM with
a different car of the same type.

LILS has its own Home Page, http://www.trainweb.org/lils/; go there for for all running schedules and any other current information.

If you are on Long Island or in the area and have never seen with your own eyes a PRR Kiesel tender body separated from its frame, now is the time to visit LIRR G5 4-6-0 #35, where just that happened to move the engine and tender to a new site in Oyster Bay (where there is a restorable turntable!).  Of course, you could look at the engine also, with its boiler, cab, and tender tank on the ground.

Read all about it, this lost vest-pocket yard just south of the LIRR/PRR Sunnyside Yard and north of the Dutch Kill draw.

There is a selected group of other sidings, terminals, yards, and other facilities described on:

the LIRR Continuation Page 3 -
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