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FARMINGDALE
SEYFRIED STATES THAT FARMINGDALE WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED "HARDSCRABBLE"
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ON OCTOBER 14, 1841 THE RAILROAD OPENED TO FARMINGDALE
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FROM THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE OCTOBER 26 1841
THE DEPOT WAS EAST OF MAIN STREET
ON DECEMBER 9, 1841 THE ROAD WAS EXTENDED EAST TO "BABYLON" STATION WHICH MAY
HAVE BEEN AT OR NEAR THE LATER WYANDANCH STATION OR POSSIBLY AT EAST NECK ROAD.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 11 1841 "STAR"
MARCH 12 1842 "STAR"
IN 1895 THE RAILROAD PURCHASED PROPERTY EAST OF SECATOGUE AVENUE AND BUILT THIS BRICK STATION
IN 1909 THE HUNTINGTON RAILROAD WAS OPENED FROM HUNTINGTON STATION TO AMITYVILLE.
A SPUR RAN FROM CONKLIN AVENUE TO THE L. I. R. R. STATION
AN ADDITION TO THE WEST END OF FARMINGDALE STATION WAS BUILT TO HOUSE A SUB - STATION.
TWO HUNTINGTON RAILROAD CARS AT FARMINGDALE STATION AND AN EASTBOUND TRAIN ARRIVING
BILL SLADE PHOTOGRAPHED A G5 DEPARTING EASTWARD
RON ZIEL PHOTOGRAPHED A WESTBOUND DIESEL TRAIN DEPARTING
JUST WEST OF THE STATION AND SECATOGUE AVENUE HILLS SUPERMARKETS HAD A WAREHOUSE AND SIDING
JUST WEST OF MAIN STREET LOOKING NORTHEAST
BLOCK STATION CABIN "B", LOCATED AT MAIN STREET, CONTROLLED BLOCK SIGNALS AND
CROSSING GATES. IT WAS FIRST LISTED IN EMPLOYE TIME TABLE NUMBER 73, MAY 27, 1914
TIME TABLE NUMBER 88, OCTOBER 18, 1918 CALLS THIS CABIN "A"
AND SHOWS "PW" CABIN AT THE END OF THE NEW DOUBLE TRACK.
CABIN "A" LAST APPEARS IN TIME TABLE NUMBER 102, MAY 21, 1925
AND WAS CLOSED WHEN "B" TOWER OPENED AUGUST 21, 1925.
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MAIN STREET CROSSING LOOKING SOUTH
MAIN STREET SOUTH OF CONKLIN AVENUE LOOKING NORTH
THE SWINGING GATES NO DOUBT WERE SWUNG ACROSS
THE TROLLEY TRACKS AND CROSSING BY TRAIN CREWS.
SOUTH FARMINGDALE STATION
1873 - 1898 and 1936 - 1974
AMITYVILLE ROAD HAD BECOME MAIN STREET.
MAIN STREET CROSSING OCTOBER 22, 1978
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IN 1987 HIGH PLATFORMS, THIRD RAIL AND A SUB-STATION WERE
INSTALLED. THESE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN IN SEPTEMBER 1987.
EAST OF THE STATION, NORTH OF THE TRACKS AND JUST WEST OF ROUTE 110 WAS A SAND MINE
FROM THIS MINE THE RAILROAD OBTAINED SAND FOR LOCOMOTIVES AND FOR FILL AND BALLAST.
HENRY RAUDENBUSCH DREW THE TRACK SETUP CIRCA 1950.
ROUTE 110 IS THE UNDERGRADE BRIDGE AT THE LOWER RIGHT.
MANY THANKS TO DAVE KELLER FOR THESE EMERY MAPS
BOB EMERY RECORDED THIS SHOWING 1958 CONDITIONS
IN THE LATER 1950'S OR 1960'S MET FOODS BUILT A LARGE WAREHOUSE WITH ONE OR MORE INTERIOR TRACKS. IT BECAME WHITE ROSE FOODS AND OTHER INDUSTRIES BUILT FACILITIES SERVED BY THE RAILROAD.
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BLOCK STATION CABIN "B", LOCATED AT MAIN STREET, CONTROLLED BLOCK SIGNALS AND
CROSSING GATES. IT WAS FIRST LISTED IN EMPLOYE TIME TABLE NUMBER 73, MAY 27, 1914
TIME TABLE NUMBER 88, OCTOBER 18, 1918 CALLS THIS CABIN "A"
AND SHOWS "PW" CABIN AT THE END OF THE NEW DOUBLE TRACK.
CABIN "A" LAST APPEARS IN TIME TABLE NUMBER 102, MAY 21, 1925
AND WAS CLOSED WHEN "B" TOWER OPENED AUGUST 21, 1925.
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MAIN STREET CROSSING LOOKING SOUTH
MAIN STREET SOUTH OF CONKLIN AVENUE LOOKING NORTH
THE SWINGING GATES NO DOUBT WERE SWUNG ACROSS
THE TROLLEY TRACKS AND CROSSING BY TRAIN CREWS.
SOUTH FARMINGDALE STATION
1873 - 1898 and 1936 - 1974
AMITYVILLE ROAD HAD BECOME MAIN STREET.
MAIN STREET CROSSING OCTOBER 22, 1978
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IN 1987 HIGH PLATFORMS, THIRD RAIL AND A SUB-STATION WERE
INSTALLED. THESE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN IN SEPTEMBER 1987.
EAST OF THE STATION, NORTH OF THE TRACKS AND JUST WEST OF ROUTE 110 WAS A SAND MINE
FROM THIS MINE THE RAILROAD OBTAINED SAND FOR LOCOMOTIVES AND FOR FILL AND BALLAST.
HENRY RAUDENBUSCH DREW THE TRACK SETUP CIRCA 1950.
ROUTE 110 IS THE UNDERGRADE BRIDGE AT THE LOWER RIGHT.
MANY THANKS TO DAVE KELLER FOR THESE EMERY MAPS
BOB EMERY RECORDED THIS SHOWING 1958 CONDITIONS
IN THE LATER 1950'S OR 1960'S MET FOODS BUILT A LARGE WAREHOUSE WITH ONE OR MORE INTERIOR TRACKS. IT BECAME WHITE ROSE FOODS AND OTHER INDUSTRIES BUILT FACILITIES SERVED BY THE RAILROAD.
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