Trackside tour of non electrified Port Jefferson Branch. All crossings and stations seen 4/20/21.

[@derekrohan9619]

Port Jefferson is my home… grew up playing at that station and the yard. My family was big there and Huntington. They helped found the towns and had a hotel the Washington stayed at .

[@stanstas8354]

It was always fun riding the old diesels into Smithtown and opening the doors going over the trestle looking straight down to the Nisseqouge river

[@ThomasButler-sp4ro]

I'm an old man, 82, living near Phoenix. However , I grew up in Port Jefferson during the 1940's and '50's. I remember the G-5 steam locomotives and actually have a photo of number 39 I took at age 12. I had an engineer friend who ran the M

[@kevintheenthusiast6095]

Very nice tour! Smithtown and Kings Park are my home stations

[@jamesalvinhollatz1511]

This is excellently narrated , and a bit of history too boot , just outstanding pice of work .love it .great accent , I lived back there , I can tell , ny , nj area the accent does not disappear even after years away . 😁

[@3985uprr]

I’m stuck with the accent.

[@robertcantore330]

Port Jefferson Branch is one of my favorite Branches!!! Most scenic love the old fashioned overpasses!!! Ive been to the Smithtown Station a number of times!!!

[@lusciousbobby]

terrific video full of history. For a while I lived right by the Setauket station. There was a house to the north of the station on Gnarled Hollow Road which shared the station parking lot. Looks like serious brush and trees are there now. A flagpole factory is probably still on the other side of the tracks. Good memories.

[@peterbeesley8904]

Another peerless video, Plenty of architectural delights. I always enjoy the well researched commentary.

[@metronorthfoamer4085]

Nice, St. James used to be my home station back in 2012, when I lived on the Island.

[@jamesnycgk2487]

also, i love the vids and the commentary along with the vid

[@44VR1]

Amazing video review. Good catches all around and good angles... 32:30 *I'm getting Deja Vu from one of my own videos...*

[@dagger1-140]

I live on Long Island and commute to Stony Brook nearly daily for college. The smithown trestle is my favorite place to railfan. There is a park just past the bridge where 25 and 25a come together that I’ll park and then walk to the trestle and up the steep embankment to catch trains as they pass over the trestle. Very nice catches there and quite peaceful with the river below

[@TheChachLINY]

Another great tour/video. Keep up the great work.

[@youminholastransit3218]

I love all railroads of MTA. LIRR, metro-north, SIR, you name it!

[@RiftRaft_]

My grandparents had a house right next to Elwood road and they had the tracks passed the fence in the backyard.

[@thatkyledude1093]

That little scenic shot of landing Avenue in Smithtown has some significance to me. The building in the background is the endodontics office where I got my root canal. But I love these videos. The video of the Montauk Branch between Babylon and Patchogue took you right through where I live. Maybe go further east one day on the Montauk Branch?

[@Pensyfan19]

Fantastic review of this branch! I have a good amount of footage at many of these locations, and have considered a few others listed as well. A bit west of Hulse Rd (and can be seen from there), there's a dead end known as Comsewogue Rd which used to be a former crossing. It currently ends at a quarry and you can get two S curves from there. I've been there twice (one of the two times was with 522 leading an eastbound) and I can easily say it's one of my favorite places to railfan. Also, the wye is still used at Porr Jeff, just for maintenance runs and CE Moves.

[@3985uprr]

58 likes and one dislike, that’s a ratio that I greatly appreciate. It shows I’m doing something right with a huge majority of the population

[@3985uprr]

@ELIJAH GEIGER-GUYAH 2 dislikes out of 75 likes I can live with and over 1500 views. It’s an imperfect world

[@L.I.Thunderbolt1003]

Great video man I plan on doing this on the greenport line

[@metro-northrailroadproduct5043]

Nice video Tim

[@DeTrafficStreetBeatz]

Very nice 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

[@m7express774]

Fantastic video man 👏👏👏

[@smacwhinnie]

No need to demolish any homes, the ROW to Wading River still exists. It's the North Shore Rail Trail.

[@L.I.Thunderbolt1003]

My great Grandfather used to walk the track between port Jefferson to green lawn and he married my great Grandma he actually found a flaw with the track and stoped the nearby train and was a lirr hero he prevented a derailment

[@3985uprr]

I’ve walked that line from north port to port Jefferson several times

[@georgemurphy2579]

@@3985uprr When I lived in Brooklyn as a child, we would often visit friends in Centerport. Start at Atlantic Terminal on Owl-eye MUs, change at Jamaica to diesel, and get off at Greenlawn. What days these were. Gray coaches with orange bulkheads. The largest, most important and famous computer line in the world!

[@RichHannon-tq4gb]

Here's an interesting topic for you. Find the oldest signals on the LIRR. That should be interesting.

[@3985uprr]

Well, anywhere where is a position? Light signal is pretty old.

[@evangouldtransit]

26:52 my home station.!

[@jamesnycgk2487]

i used to get on at St. James and it was not electrified .

[@kirkzevola5004]

Awesome video Tim are you going to do Metro North on the Hudson or New Haven Lines ? They’ve got a couple New Haven Units out on the road or another NJ Transit Main Bergen County Lines & Metro North’s Port Jervis Line ?

[@jordanschnitzer6392]

13:38 and 13:53 are my local favorites

[@jackslc01]

Port Jefferson Station should have a center and another station!

[@youminholastransit3218]

Wow 23:00 must be the only viaduct bridge for LIRR 🤔

[@_extra9126]

What makes you say that?

[@reckless.6543]

not quite the port washington branch has one in manhasset

[@StephenN1904]

Nice video! Where do you find your info?

[@3985uprr]

Out of reading material I’ve seen.

[@albertcarello5489]

Hopefully eventually these branches will be electrified.

[@3985uprr]

I believe they were considering electrification of the Port Jefferson branch but with the pandemic and the triple track project and the Eastside access project that’s been put on the back burner. Personally I would hate to see that happen to the port Jefferson branch because of its scenic beauty in spots I think a third rail would kind of ruin that but that’s progress. I remember many walks I’ve taken on the right of way from northport to port Jefferson I wouldn’t wanna walk it with a third rail alongside of me

[@albertcarello5489]

@@3985uprr You'd think with 3rd rail though it would be fenced off for the sake of safety except at street grade crossings where the 3rd rail is always disconnected.

[@3985uprr]

@@albertcarello5489 Most likely it would be

[@albertcarello5489]

@@3985uprr People who live along the LIRR have complained about diesel soot ruining their porches and woodwork outside their homes. Even brick homes are getting soothed from the diesels idling spewing out smoke and soot. The railroad was there long before those homes and people keep forgetting that. When people moved here they should have realized there'd be diesel trains running by or idling waiting for a signal to proceed.

[@qjtvaddict]

Laughing in battery train

[@smacwhinnie]

St. John's Land. Possessive not plural. Sorry to get pedantic.😉

[@3985uprr]

I certainly hope you don’t lose sleep over that. I would hate myself

[@smacwhinnie]

@@3985uprr please don't 😁 I enjoy all your content and have learned much.

[@qjtvaddict]

Port Jefferson is dead as hell lol