RMLI Hosts Roxie the LIRR Dog this Saturday!!!!

[Anthony RMLI]

Hello Gentle Forum Members,

Saturday, June 12, from 11:00 AM -3:00 PM The Railroad Museum of Long Island (RMLI) is proud to present "Miles of Smiles - Roxey the Long Island Rail Road Dog" at our Riverhead and Greenport site, and aboard the LIRR Greenport Scoot.

 Arrive at our Riverhead Site by 11:00am, and you will be escorted to the Riverhead platform for a 45 minute scenic wide threw the North Fork of Long Island wine country to our Greenport Site at the end of the line. On the train we will be reading the new children's book "Miles of Smiles - Roxey the Long Island Rail Road Dog". Once we arrive at Greenport meet author Heather Hill Worthington, and view our new exbhbit for the 2010 season: from the New York Transit Museum there 175 years of the LIRR display, the route of the dashing commuter

At 1:15 you will board the Scoot once again to arrive back to our Riverhead site where you can ride our 1964/65 World's Fair Train and view numerous restored RR cars and exhibits!

Admission includes:
- Educational exhibits at both the Riverhead and Greenport Museums
- A round-trip train ride on the LIRR “Scoot”
- Costumed characters including President Theodore Roosevelt & the mysterious Parasol Lady

Tickets will be sold at the gate at Riverhead RMLI. Reserved tickets must be picked up by 11:10 AM on the day of the event.
Adults: $9.00
Children 12 and under: $3.50
ONLY 100 tickets for the train ride.

This will be a fun day for all, with some LIRR History!  Visit our website for more info.
http://www.rmli.us/RMLI/Welcome.html


Hope to see you there,
Anthony DeBellis
President's Aide de Camp
Railroad Museum of Long Island

[Block Limit]

http://mta.info/news/stories/?story=68
I seen this on the MTA site, LIRR hosted a small event in relation to Roxie the dog.
If the real Roxie was buried at Merrick in 1914 was his remains ever found during the elimination project years later? Or was the memorial water bowl also his casket?
You would think that if bones were found that it would have created some kind of news story or someone would have noted it.

[MADDOG]

If you see where the headstone is at, right next to the guardrail at Sunrise highway, then that is where Roxey IS buried.
Remember, the tracks were at grade and Sunrise highway was ONLY a 2 lane country road back when Roxey was buried. It has been an 8 lane behemoth only since the 1960's on.
MADDOG

[Block Limit]

So the location of the monument today is the actual location of the monument when erected? I thought I read it was relocated to that location upon grade elimination.
Being the tracks were shifted south where the parking is today while the old ROW was ripped up and grade separated.
I must say. It would have looked much nicer with the tracks at grade but defiantly would be a traffic nightmare. I personally feel that due to the now dangerous proximity to the Sunrise Hwy. Roxy should have been relocated closer or inside the station building.
It's sad that today lawyers and politicians would have a field day if a dog ever called a LIRR train home. and roamed the system unrestricted.
It would be nice to make a animated short film about this story.

[RGlueck]

For a small dog like Roxy, the soil of Long Island would easily consume those bones.  His little casket would have become soil, as would the body.  Of course, all good dogs go to heaven, and I am quite certain Roxy is riding his beloved trains with heavenly impunity.  When it's my turn, I want to go to where all the steam locomotive went, and spend my eternity with K4's, G5's, H-10's, E6's, and Roxy at my side.
Oh yes, I want a system pass to ride the cabs, too.

[Block Limit]

Oh yes, I want a system pass to ride the cabs, too.

Nowadays those are imposable to obtain unless it's your train and your the engineer.
But hopefully in the land of K4's G5's H10's and E6's those engine passes would be granted with ease! 

[Dump The Air]

I want to go to where all the steam locomotive went, and spend my eternity with K4's, G5's, H-10's, E6's, and Roxy at my side.

Does that mean you want to be reincarnated as razor blades.

[Anthony RMLI]

Does that mean you want to be reincarnated as razor blades.

Haha, nice one dump, I guess your right LOL

Anthony

[RGlueck]

schmucks.