LIRR Oyster Bay Branch and Main Line 4-6, 7-91

[@PinkLaffs]

I remember that Herricks Rd crossing. Great footage here. I miss those old, growling diesels. The LIRR diesel fleet was like a rolling museum. Most of the equipment has been either sold or scrapped.

[@tomy.1846]

Somehow they just took a few old M-3's back into service as delays with the newest fleet are really bad!

[@divisioneight]

Brings back so many good memories of riding the train into work from the Oyster Bay line. I'd ride in the outer vestibule of the last car as the train was all packed and stuffy. I'd listen to that GP38 hum and sing as it pushed the train along, dancing at the coupler at the rails many bumps and twists. The sound of the power of that main motor was impressive only feet away. Sure it was cold, it was dirty and noisy, but I'd rather be out there than stuck inside those dirty, stuffy coaches.

[@wolfelsperger]

divisioneight

[@AviationMetalSmith]

Glad to see that some older footage has appeared. I remember the platforms at Mineola ended shorter than they are now... Mineola looks soooo... different.

[@tomy.1846]

Wait until the 3rd track goes in along with the new building where the Citibank was. It will be like a whole new station. It will be barely recognizable, and no more tower.

[@WestAirAviation]

7:47 that M1 applies the emergency brakes to stop. You can hear the air blow and it just stops on a dime.

[@WestAirAviation]

@phillyslasher It was a different World back then, for sure. Now whenever I dump the train above ~15 mph I get a call from a Road Foreman a few days later asking what happened.

[@ned272]

@@WestAirAviation how long you been an operator?

[@WestAirAviation]

@@ned272 I never know when the RR is reading so I avoid getting too specific and identifying myself, but I hired on in the mid 2010's.

[@mOOsechuck]

This is some REALLY fantastic footage. Great stuff, man!

[@julianheyward5467]

Real trains back i the day.

[@TheChachLINY]

8:21 Switch is seen and heard being thrown

[@tomy.1846]

Great footage! Brings back many memories. :)

[@johnniebee4328]

I would spend time at Jamaica station as a teenager just to see the diesels come in and out, I felt deprived growing up on the Long Beach branch that was all electric, the diesels had character

[@derekrohan9619]

Man brings me back...

[@PinkLaffs]

For a night shot using a VHS video camera, this looks very good. I went to Hofstra U for two years. Minneola was the go-to station (vs. Hempstead). Thanx for the memories.

[@mattkowal90]

You can see cars going over the Herricks Road crossing in the background before it was eliminated.

[@EMDFAN1988]

Classic footage bro love this stuff

[@andrewfowler2182]

I miss seeing the GP 38's I grew up going to see the trains pass through in Southampton all the time and now when I go to take a trip down memory lane it isnt the same because of the POS DE units

[@blakemcnamara9105]

I wish they still had those locomotives, coaches, and low-level platforms.

[@RaisedLetter]

MP15's running regular passenger service. Only in Long Island

[@avasic1995]

excellent video

[@im202020]

My family lived along the Glen Head station. Twice a year, fires would be on the tracks and woods from passengers discarding lit cigarettes from the windows. I walked THESE tracks from Greenvale to Oyster bay as a kid weekly..find $ in phone booths, tracks, etc. .

[@bullwinklejmoos]

I lived in Sea Cliff and went to high school in the city. Took train from Sea Cliff station to Penn for four years. Probably looked at your house passing by, if I wasn’t buried in my books.

[@tech83studio38]

@5:17 Budd M1 " Good Morning "

[@nah_144]

It did sound like it said that lol

[@cliffolshaker6142]

Where did these diesels terminate? I’m assuming the never ran into Penn Station.

[@warrenhoffman2006]

Either Mineola, Jamaica or Hunterspoint Ave/LI City depending on the day of the week and peak or non-peak service.

[@ForeLeafTravel]

Fantastic stuff!

[@thomasabramson100]

Its hard to believe the FA were the last Alcos on the LIRR having there traction motors removed and just providing cab light heat and electric power they beat out the Alco C420 and the Alco RS 3

[@allstarjamz80]

what did the lirr do with all those older engines?

[@RailsoftheNortheast]

allstarjamz80 sold to other companies or scrapped. New York and Atlantic has 4 of LIRR’s old gp38s, sw1001s, and mp15acs

[@qtrainprod]

M1s were scraped and m3s will get scrapped in 2019

[@tomy.1846]

@@qtrainprod Can you believe they just put a few old M-3 sets back into service?!

[@qtrainprod]

@@tomy.1846 yea i know i had plans to catch them ever since i heard about it a few weeks ago

[@andrewfowler2182]

This is back when the LIRR had reliable equipment. Of the 23 DM's one was wrecked in 2000. And one was changed into a DE. The old days this stuff never happened yea there was one derailing but those GP38's were like tanks

[@RailsoftheNortheast]

There are still GP-38s on the lirr line.New York and Antlantic Coast I think

[@RailsoftheNortheast]

+Super fnaf And friends no it's called New York Atlantic railway

[@andrewlamotte9217]

When was this?

[@brandercolque6946]

This was taken on April 6-7 1989 right?

[@tfp_4215]

1991

[@brandercolque6946]

​@@tfp_4215then why it says Flimed in the night April 6 and and flimed in the morning April 7 1989? Cause i see it says 1989 maybe they made a mistake and mean was 1991.

[@tfp_4215]

@@brandercolque6946 In the title I does say 91 after the 7. I don’t know if it was a mistake

[@Jaytherailfan]

Ah yes the good old days when diesel equipment was single level cars and Budd m1 ran long Island

[@johnniebee4328]

#617 gets around

[@florpena3165]

Teenager!!!!!