4K/60p: LIRR M3 Front Window Hempstead to Jamaica

[@BURRITO44]

Awesome

[@fabianakaizen5647]

0:01 Hempstead 2:34 Country Life Press 5:34 Garden City 7:46 Nassau Boulevard 9:32 Stewart Manor 12:40 Floral Park 14:21 Bellerose 19:03 Queens Village 22:00 Hollis 27:44 Jamaica

[@peterefthimiou1241]

This train stops at Garden City, where I used to work about back in 2003.

[@L.I.Thunderbolt1003]

I love these their so relaxing to watch! And as someone who rides LIRR every time I go to the city! And the LIRR is so much better Than driving through the city traffic

[@aeoliankid1]

As per usual, an outstanding rail video!

[@joestrike8537]

Wow, this brought back memories for me! In the 1970s I'd take the LIRR from Atlantic Avenue to Hempstead to visit my folks in East Meadow (and later on back to Brooklyn). I always wondered about that single track out of Hempstead and past Country Life Press - trains had to take turns entering and departing the Hempstead station? Must've led to a few bottlenecks when trains were running late and one had to wait for the train running in the opposite direction to clear that stretch.

[@jailbr3ak_acdc]

Train Sim World 2 anyone? 😍

[@evanstonbalce9588]

TSW 3 and 4 too

[@matthewmosca5002]

Grew up on this line, Nassau Boulevard was our station. We would take the train into the City to visit museums and grandparents! Great memories. thanks for all of these!

[@gerardmoran9560]

Same here. Back in the '70s they still ran freight. We'd run along the platform and grab a ladder and ride the train to the end of the platform. Crazy things kids do.

[@ENTERTAINMENT35]

Found out where a bulk of the M3's are!!!! There's about 7 of them in the new far end of the Ronkonkoma yard!!! Should have known its a good spot for them

[@Olizimm]

Like always, great job!!

[@christophersoundy9747]

Excellent Craig lov it yummm

[@denisryan8757]

@25:42 old Union Hall Street station

[@daviddavids4992]

Wait, how did the train not derail @ 1:13? Isn't the switch in the wrong direction?

[@derekharris4922]

I saw that also.

[@WestAirAviation]

Also, trains don't derail by trailing through and breaking switches. They do derail by picking switches in the facing direction. So even if this had been a switch that was broken by the train, it would only derail a train going the other way.

[@t81henderson]

I was wondering the same thing

[@lesashiminski690]

It's a spring swicth

[@musicforaarre]

It must be a spring switch. If you go Jamaica bound, the flanges squeeze the rails against the springs. However, if you go into Hempstead, you would always end up going into the track to our left, apparently the default track at non busy time, unless there is an electric motor for CTC to electrically switch the track. I can't see the electric switch motor, but it would have to exist somewhere in order to get into the track that we pulled out of. When they want to save the dispatcher from switching the track over and over and over, and to save on the electric motor, they put in spring switch to always put trains over into the west side track. At non busy times, the dispatcher could leave the bloody switch alone, as it switches itself. They had a few of these on the CN Bala Subdivision north of Toronto, but I believe that they are going out of favor ? Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ontario

[@3985uprr]

You haven’t done a ride to or from Huntington I don’t think

[@MrMaster767]

I have. Looking to do another run at better quality. Thinking sometime next week, either that or Port Washington.

[@musicforaarre]

Why don't they put in a flying junction between Floral Park and Queen's Village. That flat junction at Queen's Village is such a dud. Aarre Peltomaa. p.s. I guess it's money constraints. What else would it be.

[@_extra9126]

Nice! Did you see any rerouted M7s on the OB branch?

[@MrMaster767]

Afraid not. I was at the Railroad Museum in Riverhead.

[@SnowyJohn117]

What is that yellow line at track 7 0:48

[@simflier8298]

1:08 did he run through a switch or is it a variable spring style?

[@MrMaster767]

Automatic Safety Switch. Snaps over when the train trails through it.

[@simflier8298]

👍

[@MrMaster767]

@Daniel C. No, spring switches snap back. Safety switches snap over but don't go back on their own.

[@simflier8298]

👍

[@9tomato9]

Thanks for the video. Is is just me, or do many of these M3 front cars seem to have a flat wheel?

[@waltstansfield7508]

That's why there is the Wheel Truing facility at Richmond Hill.

[@Dark0Shadow7]

Why is West Hempstead only one track?

[@cActUsjUiCe92]

This is the Hempstead branch, not West Hempstead branch

[@Michael_Livingstone]

How the heck do you see those signals?

[@MrMaster767]

Look up?