LIRR P.M. Rush @ Jamaica 1998

[@johnniebee4328]

These old trains, even though it was the 90s it was like watching something out of the 50s that didn't really belong in the time, I would go to Jamaica just to watch these things come in and out

[@earlknightjr.4708]

HEY : THANKS FOR UPLOADING THIS TO YOU TUBE! THIS WAS AS IF, IT WAS YESTERDAY! THIS IS GREAT STUFF! THE FL9'S WERE GREAT ON METRO NORTH WHERE THEY HANDLED THE EXPRESS SERVICE TO NEW HAVEN, BEACON AND ELSEWHERE. I STOOD BEHIND TWO FL9'S JUST TO HEAR THOSE ENGINES ROARING AND GET UP TO SPEED, ON A NEW HAVEN RUN AND BOY WHAT A TREAT! I'VE ALWAYS BEEN ENAMORED WITH ELECTRIC AND DIESEL ENGINES! THE SOUNDS OF THEM EMITTED POWER, MADE BY MAN, BUT WITH A BRAIN FROM THE LIVING GOD IN HEAVEN! THAT'S ALMIGHTY GOD! WITHOUT A BRAIN TO MAKE OUR BIG TOYS AND ENJOY THEM, WE'D ALL BE IN A VEGETATED STATE. SO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE THANK HIM TOO. LOCOMOTIVES ARE OUR BIG TOYS TO ENJOY! AND BOY DO I LOVE THEM! THAT'S MY IST LOVE, WHEN IT COMES TO ANY HOBBY BESIDES LEARNING ABOUT MY CREATOR! THE FL9'S WERE ALWAYS ONE OF FAVORITE LOCOMOTIVES. THERE'S OTHER YOU TUBE SITES WITH THEM AS WELL.LOOK THEM UP! YOU WONT BE DISAPPOINTED! OK- GUYS SIGNING OFF.LOVE YOU ALL! EARL OF EL BARRIO NYC NY. 4 /25/18. 6:38PM

[@gmp3699]

Thanks for the info and update. Its nice to hear that some of the old rolling stock was preserved. Its appreciated by all the rail fans.

[@divisioneight]

I loved the sound of those old GP38's. When they idled in Jamaica Station, I would walk up close to them and feel the engine purring away.

[@larrywasek7307]

Alot quieter then the newer locomotives

[@derekrohan9619]

Me too

[@AvenueD417]

@@larrywasek7307no way, they used to roar at high speed. I would always see them pass when I would be at the park in new cassel

[@larrywasek7307]

​@AvenueD417 when idioling next to each other the gp38 was much more quiet

[@atomsmash100]

I think the dirt was the only thing holding those old cars together. I rode the LIRR for years in the late 80s/early 90s and never did I see the diesel trains and cars washed, ever. A heavy rain was the best we could hope for.

[@studiocatz4216]

Reminds me one of my very first trips on LIRR, back in 1993! That's what inspired me to write music, unlike attending music school for two+ years.

[@tomy.1846]

I really miss these trains going through Mineola and on the Oyster Bay branch.

[@andrewfowler2182]

I miss seeing the rare parlor cars on the montauk branch

[@jackchen7003]

Now, LIRR doesn’t even have any private cars

[@grazz7865]

I remember riding in those. Most comfortable seats with a special woven material. Definitely wasn’t vinyl. The seats on the trains today are vinyl. My back sweats badly on them. And those old trains were REFRIGERATORS in the summer time. Each car had its own generator. Miss those trains and let’s not forget the bar car on the montauk trains. What a nice way to ease a 3 hour ride to the hamptons!

[@Transitviews]

That's the sound of pneumatic (air operated) switch machines. When they are thrown by the tower to line up the next train they make that distinctive sound. They are also used in the subways at certain locations. They are being replaced by newer electrical switch machines that are quieter.

[@qdog568]

The good ole days when you could smoke with those doors open, either in the front, or the back of the car.

[@julianheyward5467]

I remember these rush hour trips home.

[@Msbendylove1]

L

[@kamarwaugh2861]

At 2:06 look closer to the corner on the left and we probably see NYCT RTS bus leaving archer and parson. At 5:55 look closely straight and a little to the left and see a RTS operating by jamaica buses

[@joezegers]

The old equipment (not the M7s and C3s) dates back to the 1950s. It's almost like "1998" was a typo.

[@patrykgoanimate]

There were m1s and there was the new MTA logo so it could be early in 1998

[@studiocatz4216]

0:13 - Seems like a "newer version of P72" was it transferred to LIRR from Metro North?

[@LongIslandCityLayout]

Very good observation. That is the P75, from around 1963. It is very similar to the P72, except it's newer, it has different windows, and it is slightly less tall than the P72. Hope this answered your question...

[@stampycatfan01lol]

Fun fact: some of the mp15's are still used on special trains (I.e. Equipment transfers)

[@josephnadler5521]

Medium Approach Medium Productions Also work trains

[@onecolossalrubikscube2554]

Hol'up what about the e and f units

[@stampycatfan01lol]

LegoBlox Railfan Those were replaced by the DE30ACs and DM30ACs.

[@patformicola886]

I was on those trains when I was little boy. Glen Head to Oyster Bay with my brother cousin and my aunt.

[@buntik1687ify]

All this seem like yesterday. This was daily for me.

Kwamie Turner ,I used to go from Floral Park to hunters point. we would get on HP at night and my buddy from put Jeff would open the cabinet door on the rail car ends and adjust the a/c imagine trying that now on new double deckers

[@darrylnelson6264]

Thou I LOVE Dashing Dan, looking at these old trains reminds me of how trains look in a third world country, not being specific. I still love to see them. My brother is an engineer for the LIRR. We keep having the infrastructure debate after 30 years and in will be another 30 before we get high speed rail. Facts!

[@byronchavarria4954]

Port Washington Doesn’t Go To Jamaica

[@_mynewcareer]

Can't believe they actually had mp15s hauling commuter trains

[@MrJohnnyCaps]

Tough to get to Port Washington when heading east out of Jamaica. The FL9's would have been heading towards Port Jefferson.

[@byronchavarria4954]

The Port Washington Branch Does NOT Serve Jamaica

[@gmp3699]

Very nice video! I wonder if any of these old coaches were saved on Long Island, or were they all sold off. Wish they kept #621 in the LI railroad museum.

[@LongIslandCityLayout]

It is a nice video. The railroad museum has about four of these P72 coaches and they are still a few in the LIRR yards in Morris Park. 621 was not kept, but 619 had a happy ending., It was sold to a railroad in Florida. Here's a link to what it looks like now. sbiii.com/lirr2etc.html

[@frankgrimesification]

It's always nice having a happy ending...................

[@LINYARailfanTV]

Great videos of the old diesels and the M1s. Miss that era.

[@RoadCone411]

01:26 Those are some dirty mismatched cars...lovely! I don't like the circular windows in the vestibules though - things certainly have changed in the 22 years since this video! The bilevel coaches look shiny and new, still a treat to ride on them (us Metro North riders dont get the pleasure of a bilevel.)

[@johnniebee4328]

The bi-level cars with old school engines configuration is very rare, don't think the LIRR did that for very long

[@ccarter956]

I used the ride the LIRR everyday from Patchogue to Penn Station back in the day to commute to work

[@orbit14915]

some of those old coaches had holes in the floor where you could see the roadbed. what a joke===the money that was spent trying to make the FL9 locomotives work properly. they wreaked havoc on the new york centraloperations, purchased by nycrr tenant new haven rr. mcginnis and son should have been sent to jail the way they pillaged and looted the new haven rr. then some lirr employee /rr buffs tried to make them work as promised by emd in the 1950's. the fl9's were used once in the early am westbound and once in the early pm rush hour eastbound---with technicians riding shotgun on the rear unit to prevent equipment failure in a vital section of the rr 34 yr employee

[@earlknightjr.4708]

YES THOSE MECHANICS WERE HINDERED BY ALOT OF BEAURACACY AND TWIST AND TURNS FROM THE HIGHER UPS, THAT DIDN'T WANT THINGS TO WORK PROPERLY,TO GET OVERTIME AND GRAFT AS WELL! WHAT A BUNCH OF LOSERS! OF COURSE THEY COULD OF GOTTEN THEM WORK FAR BETTER, IF THEY HAD THE MECHANICAL KNOWLEDGE UPSTAIRS, TO DO SO! EARL OF EL BARRIO NYC NY. 4/25/18. 6:48PM

[@elmontfirevideos]

Looking at that now trains had really change

[@studiocatz4216]

2:43 - why does P72 have a red strip? Were parlor cars designated so? By the way, here are my photos from Riverhead Station, including repaints.

[@gmp3699]

+Greg Scripter The red stripes were usually the drinking bar cars and smoking cars. Very crowded and popular in their days, but not for me.

[@studiocatz4216]

+GMP Lynbrook interesting fact

[@LongIslandCityLayout]

Yup, they called them "Parlor Cars." Actually, one of the Port Jefferson trains from Hunterspoint back in the day, had a Christmas Party in the Parlor Car, which was insanely crowded.

[@divisioneight]

I used to catch the morning westbound from Huntington on summer Friday mornings when they were trying to get the parlor cars west for the summer weekend eastbound Cannonball. They'd let us sit in the cars for the commute west and it was commuting in style!

[@komradkolonel]

I've been through Jamaica Station. It's very complex and it sort of resembles a rail yard more than a station. I've only been on the Budd electric cars and not any of the diesel LIRR trains. I know that some of the Alco cab units that LIRR has were originally L&N freight locomotives that they converted into cab control units. I don't know where they got the F units from. I figure that those FL9s might have originally been with New Haven and later Amtrak.

[@Bjorge861]

Of course! That's what I kept hearing when I lived on roosevelt ave south of the 69 street station on the 7 line. Of course today, these switches has since been removed. Do you know where else can I hear them?

[@_mynewcareer]

We're the geeps geared for passenger service or just regular freight setup? I know they didn't have HEP

[@NickelPlateMxne]

Damn those where cars from the 1970s? We need them preserved in some way *n o w*

[@ENTERTAINMENT35]

Ah when the double decker diesel cars were brand new! Looked much better back then than how they look now

[@kitn1mcc]

Wow even 1998 LIRR was running some old stuff

[@Bjorge861]

What is that noise at 2:06? I heard it before.

[@LIRRMEDFORD]

FL9 with C1 bilevels, they could of kept the FL9's they are much more reliable then some of these DE-DM engines we have now

[@ron234halt]

From your experience, on average, how long were the Oyster Bay trains in comparison to the Port Jefferson ones?

[@MTAoRCEO]

These are the older trains? Reminds me of Country trains. ._.

[@IIIJFRIII]

Anyone know what happend to the LIRR FL9's?

[@PW5RF70]

IIIJFRIII Scrapped in 2005

[@IIIJFRIII]

:( darn, thanks man.

[@cutefeet63]

they didn't scrap all of the diesels. They use some of them for moving rail cars or freight

[@brandercolque6946]

This was taken what summer month and date in 1998 at Jamaica LIRR Station?

[@PerfectCell1994]

The old days

[@Hernans-World-On-YouTube]

The Port Washington branch does not serve Jamaica station.

[@arifakyuz7673]

Jeez, they were using F units in the LIRR in the 1990s?

[@thehardrcafe9065]

Yep

[@eclipsegaming_]

4:09 WHAT THE HELL? A FL9 CARRYING C3 COACHES?!?!

[@AweShiyte]

If it wasn't Thomas the Tank Engine, it's the M3s that were the trains of my childhood. (also the audio is a bit wacky, might wanna turn the audio down, especially wearing headphones)

[@sidrad]

This was my childhood.

[@johnschwerdt9983]

Old is one thing, but at least they could have kept them clean!

[@Italman45]

Tracks 1, 2 & 3 ...All Aboard !

[@tomahawkseven]

I miss the old GP38's

[@Italman45]

One of the switches just changed tracks

[@Lirrguymta]

My brother said the P72 was the old M7😂

[@dougd120]

older equipment

[@derekrohan9619]

Uh.. yeah it was 98 and the LIRR

[@dannydo8325]

rip fl9

[@DOOMESDAYS]

Doesn't look like Jamaica station 🙄

[@enroute6105]

Well would not recommend headphones 🤪