Long Island Railroad Abandoned Richmond Hill Station (Montauk Branch) (1080p FHD)

[@cinema104]

You are walking on the tracks of the old South Side RR which went originally from Patchogue to Jamaica and then on to Buschwick Depot (Buschwick Avenue and Meserole Street ca. 1870.

[@mattw8809]

It's NOT abandoned, it's still used for freight, be careful ! ! !

[@theripoffchicago]

For years those stairs were left opened. Use to explore that all the time back in the day. Goodfellas was shot at Salerno's and under that trestle

[@mattw8809]

They found the bodies under the station in the cars.

[@golfberg1]

Diesel Branch from LIC to Jamaica. Id ride that line a while back !

[@mozzarella-king]

Wow, weird that I stumbled onto this video. We lived on 118th Street and walked by the station many times in the late 1970's till we left in 1984. The area under the trestle was parking for Salerno's Restaurant and a Key Food. I remember the occasional diesel train passing by.

[@mattw8809]

It's still "LIVE" and used for freight-. Commuter service was terminated in '98 because of low ridership. LIRR didn't want to make those ground level stations handi-cap accessible. Plus they would have install PTC (positive train control) anti-Collision system. Don't forget the worst LIRR train accident is history was in Richmond Hill

[@mattw8809]

LIRR "PENSY" (keystone) symbol (LIRR was owned by Pennsylvania RR, hence "Penn Station") is still on the overpass on Hillside ave, Roman arches progressively getting smaller underneath too. R/H is the only elevated line on the entire lower Montauk branch. Once the main line for LIRR before the tunnels were built. Service used to terminate at LI City, then you took the ferry to Manhattan.

[@mrjoeljf]

there was at one time electrified service in the 1960s and early 1970s. It's all been removed

[@Urbex_Undergroundexploring22]

I so want to check this out.

[@jeremiahtaylor1817]

Not the evergreen if that’s forest park drive, it’s the lower montauk. May be running a good amount of service in a few years.

[@taxesv1nce142]

I don’t expect it to resume service anytime soon. It was shut down for a good reason, the infrastructure didn’t support modern LIRR trains and almost no one was riding the branch. The bay ridge branch has a better chance of being successful with the number of connections it has to subways and educational campuses as well as residential areas. Honestly though, I don’t think either branch will see resumed service anytime soon.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

@@taxesv1nce142 the LIRR doesn't own it anymore and since its not equipped with PTC it will never see a passenger train again. Glad I got to ride that lone Oyster Bay branch train that used it prior to hurricane Sandy a few times.

[@kenjiharima23nep91]

@@F40PH-2CAT will about that, i did some reseach that MTA planing to revive the lower montauk and bay ridge branch.

[@coreymerricksterling1699]

This is owned by New York and Atlantic railroad, but the Long Island rail was sometimes to run one train a day

[@SpartanFret]

Yeah thank you for the correction. This was the Montauk branch. I updated the name and info because of your correction. I don't know how I got this mixed up with the Evergreen branch. Thank you for correcting me

[@ahmadfrw1]

I would either restore LIRR service or start a new Light Rail service on the corridor.

[@deprecatedme]

I think "LIRR Secondary went from the Westerly Limits of Jay to a mile west of that". What this MEANS IDK. Thanks for the video!

[@golfberg1]

Uderneath is where Johnny Roast Beef and his wife are found in their Pink Cadillac ! (Goodfellas)

[@calvinmyers9197]

Does anyone know why the MTA (Yes we understand about folks moving out of the area, but when things starting picking up again, why not modernize these stations in order for the MTA to get morn revenue) still refuses to update these stations, they're a monopoly for goodness sake.

[@johniacono3725]

I believe you should get lol your facts in order. it is not the evergreen branch.

[@Urbex_Undergroundexploring22]

Where did you park to walk in?

[@robertnussberger6449]

Is this where the big train crash happened in the 1950s where the one train rear ended a stalled train?

[@Sabodable]

No, that is on the main line near Metropolitan Avenue between Kew Gardens and Jamaica stations.

[@robertnussberger6449]

@Sabodable they should do video on that location. I saw the old news footage of it It was pretty crazy

[@Sabodable]

@@robertnussberger6449 Agreed. There is also no memorial or plaque of any kind commemorating the site where 78 people died.

[@mattw8809]

Foggy and dark. Thanksgiving train brakes locked, it was hit in rear, crash telescoped into the front stalled train

[@golfberg1]

Kew Gardens on the Main.

[@Mike-hf8kq]

abandoned station yes but not abandonned branch. thats lower montauk and only high level platform station that was on it. tops of track are def not rusted like would be if abandonned for 50 years. lower montauk is still used by NYAR freight trains

[@mattw8809]

Yea, no PTC (positive Train Control) install (federal mandate-anti-collision

[@Mike-hf8kq]

@@mattw8809 and the bliss "movable" bridge would also have to be replaced if revenue trains continued to run across it even though it hasnt opened in a very long time