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[LIRR Agent - Retired]

Nice photo.  Is it Belmont Park?

[Lirr168]

Wow, Belmont looks pretty nice there.

Great picture also, LIRR Agent!

[LIRR Agent - Retired]

It is not my photo.  I was asking for location.

[Lirr168]

haha, whoops, I thought the pic was under your name.

Yeah, it is Belmont.

[Johnny F]

A retired Engineer friend of mine send me this, dont know the date, guessing 76 or 77 because of the red white and blue.

Was this taken at the crossing in Farmingdale by the wye/team yard where Coastal is now?

[RetiredLirrConductor]

did not take the picture, but thats what I was thinking.. dont know for sure

[kuzzel540]

Switch Tender on duty at YA

[rs31556]

Was this taken at the crossing in Farmingdale by the wye/team yard where Coastal is now?

I don't think it's East Farmingdale.  The building doesn't look the same as the one in the Google earth photo.

[Ernie]

And I *do* think it's East Farmingdale. Double track main, power poles both sides, track signals a little to the west. And after running that crossing that hundreds of times when I worked that area I was SURE I remembered that building with the angle corner.

The street view obscures the windows on the angled section of the building. Check out the Google overhead:


The windows are a perfect match!

[jmeechum]

I worked around the corner from there when I left NY, and it does look to me to be the Pinelawn Wye area.  The car blocks the windows mostly on the diagonal side of the building in this shot, but you can see them peeking out a bit...

[rs31556]

And I *do* think it's East Farmingdale. Double track main, power poles both sides, track signals a little to the west. And after running that crossing that hundreds of times when I worked that area I was SURE I remembered that building with the angle corner.

The street view obscures the windows on the angled section of the building. Check out the Google overhead:


The windows are a perfect match!

Ernie, the overhead shows it better then the street view.  That is the building.  Good find.

[freightguy]

That is the same building. In fact the NYA did spot cars at that middle unloading platform around 2000 or so for AJM packaging in Pineaire when they had an overflow of cars.  I think the building belongs to Shea Trucking.  If you look at the bottom of pizza or deli bags alot of them have AJM stamped on them.

[MACTRAXX]

A retired Engineer friend of mine send me this, dont know the date, guessing 76 or 77 because of the red white and blue.

As mentioned by others this is definitely East Farmingdale back around 1980 is my guess.

A big misconception about the LIRR color schemes is that many think that this is from the Bicentennial era
but it is actually from the Gabreski era(former LIRR President Frank Gabreski) just a few years later when the large scale use of red/white/blue
paint on LIRR equipment was used. Remember only GP38 #252 got this color scheme originally and was the prototype
used in the Gabreski era.

Another tip-off in the picture - no third rail - as for the early 80s date. It was just a few years later that that
track was electrified beginning in 1987 I believe...

MACTRAXX

[Ernie]

And to further beat this dead horse... I misstated in my earlier post when I said this is a double track main line.

Actually the double track main ends about 1000 feet west of this crossing, then splits again to create a freight siding (as it is not electrified as seen in the Google Street view). Back in the M3 days I used to note how the double main used an equal Y switch, but the freight spur was a traditional turn out (main straight, siding only at an angle). The siding breaks over a double track spacing, perhaps to clear a signal before coming back close to the main. It then continues till the siding reunites with the main a little west of the Wellwood Ave sub station.

The Coastal Y track connects to the freight siding, not the main.

[NYandW]

http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirrtrackmaps/PinelawnMP32-33.jpg
http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/lirrtrackmaps/PinelawnMP31-32_6-58.jpg