LIRR passengers rescued from disabled train
Riders aboard an eastbound LIRR train discovered Friday night that snow can be more powerful than a locomotive. Police were called in to rescue 25 stranded travelers after a train hit a snow drift a...
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Miniature Rail Road makes final stop on Webb Street
GRANT PARPAN PHOTO | Tony Cassone, left, and Frank Field in front of their car shop several hours before closing Mr. Field’s backyard rail road for good. More than 200,000 people have hopped on board...
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A $500K windfall for train museum
This 1960s boxcar was recently purchased by the Railroad Museum of Long Island using the estate money from Walter H. Milne. The boxcar, long coveted by the museum, completes a set on its track in...
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Miniature railroad appears back on track elsewhere in Greenport
Four years ago, Frank Field decided to stop running the Peconic County Miniature Rail Road on tracks he had built adjacent to his Greenport home. Before that, the retired railroad employee had offered...
View ArticleMTA: Buses to replace midday trains
The Long Island Rail Road announced that buses will substitute midday trains at Mattituck, Southold and Greenport on Wednesday, March 22 and March 29 as maintenance crews replace switches at two of the...
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Greenport’s ‘biggest problem’: Noisy trains idling
Parking? Traffic? Those problems have gotten a lot of attention from the Greenport Village Board in recent years. But Flint Street resident Mike Osinski thinks Greenport’s biggest problem is the noise...
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