ARRT'S   ARRCHIVES


  


CHANGE   AT   CENTRE   MORICHES

UNTIL 1906 CENTRE MORICHES WAS A TERMINAL WITH A WYE AND SMALL YARD.   EMPLOYE TIME TABLE NUMBER 8 - DECEMBER 4, 1898 - SHOWS THE SCOOT LEAVING AMAGANSETT AT 9:10 A.M. AND THE SHUTTLE LEAVING SAG HARBOR AT 9:15 A.M.,   BOTH AS TRAIN NUMBER 892,   AND CONNECTING AT BRIDGEHAMPTON.   DEPARTING THERE AT 9:32, THE TRAIN STOPPED AT EASTPORT AT 10:28 AND CONTINUED WEST TO CENTRE MORICHES TO CONNECT THERE WITH WESTBOUND TRAIN NUMBER 68 WHICH ORIGINATED THERE.   AFTER NUMBER 11 WENT EAST AT 10:43 THE SCOOT DEPARTED EASTWARD AS NUMBER 896 AT 10:48,   PROBABLY BACKING THE TRAIN,   TO EASTPORT WHERE IT PICKED UP ITS GREENPORT CONNECTION DROPPED BY NUMBER 11.   IT LEFT EASTPORT STILL AS NUMBER 896 AT 10:57,   MADE AN "S" STOP AT MANOR AT 11:10 AND DEPARTED EASTBOUND AT 11:15 AS NUMBER 893,   ARRIVING AT GREENPORT AT 12:18 P.M.   THE RETURN TRIP LEFT GREENPORT AT 1:50 P.M. AS NUMBER 894,   ARRIVED AT MANOR AT 2:51 AND DEPARTED AT 3:00 P.M. AS NUMBER 895.   ARRIVING AT EASTPORT AT 3:24,   A CONNECTION WAS DROPPED FOR WESTBOUND NUMBER   12   TO L.I.CITY AND BROOKLYN VIA THE MONTAUK DIVISION.   NUMBER   895   ARRIVED AT AMAGANSETT AT   4:44.
THE CONNECTING SHUTTLE ARRIVED AT SAG HARBOR AT   4:33.

CIRCA   1905   MAP   SHOWS   PASSENGER   AND   FREIGHT   STATIONS,   WYE,   PUMPING   STATION   AND   PRIVATE   TRESTLE   OF   BISHOP   & HALLOCK   (1903 C.R.4.).   1913   C.R.4.   CALLS   THIS   MORICHES   LUMBER   &   COAL   CO.,   IN   1919   IT'S   MORICHES   LUMBER   &   COAL   CO.   TRESTLE   AND   SIDING   AND   IN   1924   IT'S   ARTHUR   B.   HALLOCK   CO.   INC   C.  H.   KOEGEL
&   G.  W.   HOWELL   TRESTLE   &     SIDING.


JUST   ACQUIRED   ON   EBAY   FROM   MAXRAIL,   1902   PHOTO   SHOWS   WATER   FACILITIES,   PASSENGER
AND   FREIGHT   STATIONS   AND   PRIVATE   TRESTLE   OF   BISHOP   &   HALLOCK   (1903   C. R.  4.).





CENTER   MORICHES   CIRCA   1908


CENTER   MORICHES   IN   1962


CENTER   MORICHES   IN   1963


CENTER   MORICHES   IN   EARLY   1998


CENTER   MORICHES   R.I.P.


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