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AT TIMES OF SEASONAL HEAVY TRAFFIC - RACING AT AQUEDUCT, BELMONT PARK AND JAMAICA RACE TRACKS AND SUMMER SERVICE TO THE ROCKAWAYS AND LONG BEACH - IT WAS SOMETIMES NECESSARY TO SUPPLY ADDITIONAL POWER FOR TRAINS. FOUR PORTABLE SUBSTATIONS WERE ACQUIRED AND PORTABLE SUBSTATION BUILDINGS WERE CONSTRUCTED AT SPRINGFIELD JUNCTION, BELMONT PARK - LATER MOVED TO FLORAL PARK AND HEMPSTEAD CROSSING. |
THIS PORTABLE SUB-STATION BUILDING WAS WEST OF CARNATION AVENUE FLORAL PARK.
SPRINGFIELD JUNCTION
HEMPSTEAD CROSSING - LOOKING EAST FROM FRANKLIN AVENUE
UNTIL 1918 ONLY TWO WERE REPORTED, EACH 1000 KW CAPACITY.
THE DECEMBER 28 1918 RAILWAY REVIEW DESCRIBED THE NEW 1500 KW CAR NUMBER THREE
BY 1925 THERE WERE FOUR P.S.S. CARS
LONG ISLAND RAILROAD INFORMATION BULLETIN JUNE 3 1925
PORTABLE SUBSTATION CARS NUMBERS ONE AND TWO AT BELMONT PARK.
PORTABLE SUBSTATION CAR NUMBER TWO.
PORTABLE SUBSTATION CAR NUMBER TWO AT SUBSTATION NUMBER FIVE, HAMMELS JUCTION.
F. R. DIRKES PHOTOGRAPHED CARS NUMBERS THREE AND FOUR AT THE 1939 WORLD'S FAIR.
THE PORTABLE SUB STATIONS WERE MOVED FROM WANTAGH TO
THE 1964 - 1965 WORLD'S FAIR AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY DICK MAKSE
WE BELIEVE THIS TO BE ISLAND PARK
NUMBER THREE AT WANTAGH 1957
NUMBERS FOUR AND THREE AT WANTAGH 1957
WEST HEMPSTEAD 1973
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