A gorgeous day to ride the LIRR Greenport Scoot to the lovely village of Greenport. 8/6/23

[@scottyerkes1867]

Nice video. The Greenport line is very interesting. Thanks Tim😀👌😊

[@jamesmiller171]

I'm sorry that I never ventured out that way when I lived in Queens. It's too late now. Thanks for the brief tour of Greenport.

[@johnburke1317]

Nice video 👋

[@robertcantore330]

I took this trip last Summer with DE 410!!!

[@3985uprr]

Was hoping for better horn sounds from 413, but 😢😢😢

[@robertcantore330]

@@3985uprr all depends on the engineer the one last year with the 410 did an awesome job!!! However it was a bit annoying with the Cab Car horn on the way back to Ronkonkoma

[@valeriestanford335]

Enjoyed the video as I watched it from Aquebogue and love hearing the trains go by several times a day. One little correction - Claudio's dates back for decades, was one of the oldest family owned restaurants until recently when it changed ownership and was famous during Prohibition when they would bring the booze in from the water to a dock under the restaurant.. It was never Mitchells, that was a separate restaurant in Greenport which was also very good. Please keep making your videos as they are so informative and great fun.

[@3985uprr]

So I was told. It just seems that that’s where Mitchell’s used to be.

[@valeriestanford335]

It was very close. I hope that it came across in my comments just how much I enjoy your videos. I love train travel and don't get to ride very often. Please keep making them.@@3985uprr

[@aprilhilliard3302]

Just recently bumped into your yt page...holy Toledo what a blast from the past for me. Grew up in Miller Place in the 60s-7os , so this stuff is all my old "hood". We often took the LIRR from Port Jeff into NYC and then road subways all over the place. Not sure why I never hopped on the other eastbound runs to Greenport, Montauk, etc. I did bicycle and drive all over the east end...both forks. And canoed many times down the Peconic River from Calverton to Riverhead. Lots of good memories and a few pictures. Anyway, love your stuff, thanks for posting! Be safe and God bless.

[@3985uprr]

Thank you

[@byronthomas4733]

Very nice town

[@davidkalbacker6033]

As a former Greenporter, now living in North Carolina, I really appreciated your trip back memory lane. Hope to return to the East End for a visit in the Fall. Also, I remain a real fan of your channel. Many many thanks!

[@3985uprr]

Our pleasure!

[@davidkalbacker6033]

@@3985uprr I owe you a glass of North fork wine sometime. My old home place was right off of Kerwin Blvd just West of Greenport. Wish the family had kept it so I could enjoy have a year there ☺️.

[@RailfanJourneys]

Nice video. Brought me back to the days of going out to Southold when NYA still had freight east of Riverhead. One customer - Penny Lumber. Used to take boxcars in Mattituck and flats out in Southold. Penny was acquired by Marjam Supply so now they take any cars in their siding in Farmingdale.

[@philarony4921]

Great tour! When I was a young teen back in the early 60s the family vacationed in the Peconic Bay Area. I have fond memories of flattening pennies on the rails at Jamesport when the late day eastbound came through. Much has changed since then.

[@valeriestanford335]

yes, I used to flatten pennies at the Aquebogue station

[@arsinoeivlostprincess4228]

There was a Mitchells on 25 in town. It burned down or was demolished. I think it burned. I'm 74 and I don't remember it much past my teens. It may have been a little less formal than Claudios. Claudios was always Claudios. I think the carousel is where Mitchells was. It was a bar restaurant much like Claudios. The small rest on the corner was the Coronet for years. Simple food low prices luncheonette fare breakfast. I wanted to get out there before it changed hands and have breakfast but I didn't. My grandparents had friends in Greenport going back to the 1930's. Thanks for the tour. It's still a haul by car from mid island so we weren't out there a lot. Special occasion car trip.

[@SharperTravel]

Would be cool to see Oyster Bay or Port Jefferson as well

[@johncanetta6708]

There's a cool RR item in Shoreham on the Port Jeff branch. Off 25A on the road that leads down to the Sound you go under an overpass from the LIRR branch that once ran to Wading River. I've always wanted to climb up to the top of the overpass.

[@Mahees_230]

I used to live in Medford and I would take the 6:41 from Greenport to connect with the 6:57 at Ronkonkoma to NYP. I remember the town wanted to close Medford, and that got a hard NO from the commuters. The rail yard in Yaphank is being expanded. They cleared out an area and it looks like a active sand mine, and there was an illegal mine next to the railyard that was visible from the highway. The town took care of that oversight.

[@rlbijster]

I agree with you about wanting to sit in a restaurant and being served. It's a civilised way of dining.

[@byronchavarria4954]

Civilized

[@mygins5820]

Great video Tim! I think it'd be an interesting idea if you made a binder with every ticket that you have, meaning you keep all the tickets and then create a binder to look back on as a little piece of each memory

[@3985uprr]

Not organized enough for that

[@douglaswhite7328]

thank you for filming on the shady side of the car.

[@3985uprr]

I always am mindful of sun angles

[@roberttapken1139]

In my former life, I was a property manager for a bank. I would go monthly to check my properties on the east end. I would stop in the Cutchouge diner. Old place. Is it still there? Also my late wife and I took a drive to the end on Rt 25. An "end" sign stuck in the sand and water after that. Great video.

[@3985uprr]

The diner is still there. Open from 7am-330pm

[@valeriestanford335]

Dimer still there.

[@randyferron]

may I suggest a view south of Peconic bay next time thanks love yor stuff

[@3985uprr]

Train was crowded, and I didn’t want to move around too much. My battery was low

[@byronchavarria4954]

NY 25 And I 495 Long Island Expressway Is Surrounded By The Port Washington Oyster Bay Port Jefferson And Greenport Branches From West To East

[@RynardMooreVstar1]

"If I wanna take food out -- I'll go to Burger King..." Hahahahahahaha and agreed.

[@JonBrooks105]

Mitchell's was down by where the carousel is. It burned down in the 70's. We used to go there by boat, get gas, water and ice from kids who would ride their bikes out onto the docks to give service. They even get your groceries if you wanted! Claudio's was always Claudio's. There's a picture inside of my great grandfather's commercial fishing boat tied up there in the early 30's, and it was Claudio's then!

[@jeffreyandrews6700]

The road you mention as Sound Ave is actually the North Hwy. Sound Ave. actually crosses the tracks before Mattiuck and ends feeding onto Main St.

[@3985uprr]

I can be forgiven for that mistake. I’ve only lived on Long Island for 69 years 😀😀. The roads seem seamless so I didn’t know there was a change in the name. The fact that it runs along the Sound doesn’t make me believe it could be called anything else.

[@jeffreyandrews6700]

@@3985uprr Yeah that's the new section of the North Hwy. In the 70's it was just single lane each way. I probably drove that road a hundred times going back and forth to the ferry from Hampton Bays. It's gets real lonely in the winter.

[@thiscorrosion900]

Two things that aggravated me last summer in Greenport: well ok, I got there around 2:30 or 3 p.m., so not early, but the coffee shop was also already closed by then, Arcade was closed, and, the bookstore there which once did have used books and such, has been turned into a tiny shop featuring kind of generic new books only. That was a bit of a letdown. A lot of the other shops there seemed open, but had very expensive stuff on offer. You're going to pay $70 for a sweatshirt, guaranteed. I didn't go to Claudio's as I'd planned to, but that's cause i wasn't super starving yet. Next time I go out there, I'm going to eat there for sure. I've heard Claudio's is definitely not disappointing. I wish the East End would get its act together in terms of better shopping, better food, and vintage shops and things like that. There is BookHampton in a few towns, which at least is something. They do have some rare and antiquarian books, but the prices are sky high, of course. I was just watching Steve from AgendaFreeTV on here tour the entire town of Provincetown MA: I haven't been there, but from his video, it looks like it has 1000x the life and shopping and attractions that anything in the East End has. Better food, better shops, even on the piers etc., and better candy/fudge ice cream shops, etc. Prob. better bookstores too from what I'd read. I dunno. Greenport was a very nice town to walk around, though. I missed the final boat tour from the museum that day, or I'd have surely gone out for a tour on that. I recommend heading out very early and reserving the better part of a day here. Or Sag Harbor, Or Montauk. Even Riverhead. Greenport is so tiny, though. On the whole I'd rather be up in Providence, Boston, or Salem. Even Marblehead MA was more interesting.

[@joscallinet6260]

I understand the Greenport Scoot originates at Ronkonkoma - are there any through trains to Greenport from GCTerminal and/or Penn Station?

[@3985uprr]

None

[@evangouldtransit]

two things....: one, I'm surprised there was no chime preceeding the announcements, and two, it would be insanely cool if they were allowed to run P72/RS3 excursions. especially if they tacked on the red P70. though, that is but a dream for now.

[@bangstar_media]

I posted a video of Your train leaving on my channel if this was yesterday.