Ride on LIRR train 250 from Ronkonkoma to Greenport. Highlights of trip back on train 251. 3/29/22
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- Ride behind engine 409 with K5LLA horn. That locomotive has been on the sidelines for a while and it’s back running again 
Many many thanks. As a native of Greenport I have taken the train many times but not in the last 20 plus years. In fact, in this video you crossed my old street, Kerwin Blvd. just West of Greenport. I can’t tell you the number of times we rode our bikes up to that crossing to see the trains go by.. A lot has been built up but the very East End is still very very beautiful and Peconic Bay is hard to beat for swimming, clamming and boating . Once again thank you for this specific video and naturally I enjoy your others as well.
Irving Berlin, while stationed at Camp Upton, wrote a musical, Yip, Yip, Yaphank, which included the memorable song "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning." The musical was turned into a 1943 movie This Is The Army which starred Ronald Reagan. Kate Smith sang, God Bless America.
Thanks for all you do! This was a fun journey.
Usually watch front window rides but you had the only Greenport so thank you. Mom has a friend who owns a house in Southhold, have read a book about Peconic Bay loved it
Ronkonkoma station is my home station!!! I hear that K5LLA horn on 409 from my house several times a day!!!!
Potatoe house across from mattituck station. Back in day frieght cars would load there.
Coming through Aqubogue you see Cresent Duck farm. The last operating duck farm on Long Island.
I have been a fan of your videos for quite a while, and I think this is your best yet! You provided a lot of east end history that was very enjoyable! Keep up the good work!
Real nice video, narration.
I hope you enjoyed the trip. I operated the east leg of that round trip.
A nice ride out East, for all of us! I’m on the south fork. Thanks for sharing! Also ronkonkoma native! Lol
Great video, feels like I rode it right there with ya
Wonderful video. Pleasant train ride. Thank you for the background details and history on each area. Makes the journey more fulfilling.
Thanks, nice ride! They seem to be building more and more of these condos around various train stations. I believe NJ Transit has some kind of program with local government to build apartments near their stations.
I lived on the island for my first thirty years, 1941 thru '70, I don't think I ever made it out to Greenport, wanted to but just never go around to it. Of island memories, when I was a kid during the '40s my parents took me to the Nassau County Fair in Mineola, we rode a LIRR train there pulled by one of the RR's Camelback steamers, I remember a few times a Camelback came thru Lindenhurst during the early '50s, did you ever see one?
Great Movie
Greetings from switzerland
The scenery out of the train looks beautiful and gets me excited. I love it.😀👍👍
Dead trees? Beautiful?
Hey great sounding horn !!
I knew that engine would be on that that was part of the reason why I took that ride
Very entertaining full filling ride. I never thought that Greenport was really far from Ronkonkoma, I completely stand corrected jaja plus my father lives in Brentwood Long Island so I ride on the Ronkonkoma branch almost every Thursday to be exact. Very fun ride. It’s straight and very fast.
I built all those block limit signals in Ronkonkama yard.
Great trip. The Calverton freight spur at 36:15 was originally installed 1953 to service the newly opened Naval Industrial Reserve Plant at Calverton built by the Navy for Grumman Aerospace final assembly and flight test operations, which had mainly outgrown the built-up Bethpage area in the heart of Nassau County. During my time at Grumman Calverton from 1962 to 1994 there were initially regular freight deliveries, including at first coal in coal hoppers then later fuel oil in tank cars for powering the main steam and power plant for the facility. The most memorable freight deliveries however remain the annual arrivals of a freezer freight car loaded with the frozen turkeys that were handed out to all Grumman employees at Christmas time. After Grumman ceased to exist in the Spring of 1994 and the Navy turned over the Calverton Facility to the Town of Riverhead, for a short time there were biofuel tank car deliveries on a somewhat regular basis made to a company doing business in the new Calverton Enterprise Park. Currently, there still may well be lumber and building material deliveries to the Riverhead Building Supply Corporation. The spur was refurbished circa 15(?) years ago with an aprox. $2M federal grant secured by then-Congressman Tim Bishop. That is when crossing gates were installed at River Avenue, tracks were replaced, and a new switch onto the main line installed.
Awesome story. The only customer on the branch is Eastern fence, which receives plastic pellet cars.
Also Important To Know Theres 4 LIRR Branches On New York State Route 25 This Includes The Port Washington Oyster Bay Port Jefferson And Greenport Branches Due To Train Trestle Bridges Within Queens Nassau And Suffolk Counties
I live within walking distance of the Ronkonkoma train station and I have taken the Greenport scoot lots of times. I have taken it most recently as this past summer. Taking the train to Greenport is good because everything in Greenport is within walking distance of the station. Usually when I go I would walk around the town then go to Claudio's restaurant then take the train back home after.
Nice you got the rare C3 automated announcements.
They are not so rare lately
I don’t know if the C3 announcements are rarer or NJT’s Comet II/IV announcements
@@nathanjiang100 NJT announcements are probably rarer. Less footage exists of them on YT.
Very picturesque!!! Never been on the Central Branch to Greenport. Thank you for posting this video😀😀💙
That’s the Main Line. The central branch runs from Bethpage to Babylon
@@3985uprr Thank you. Sorry for my error
Great ride. Shows how rural the east end still is - hope it stays that way. Used to ride the bike out to Greenport for lunch and take the ferry over to Shelter Island.
Enjoying seeing all the LI stuff.
Excellent I use to live by the old diesel yard,,,,,,brings back memories, ,
Nice!Like traveling to the past
GREAT trip... Thank you....😎
Next time we visit Long Island in the fall plan to take the this train I guess to Greenport,,we are from Brentwood
I Once Took The Shelter Island Ferries From Montauk To Greenport On NY Route 114 Order To Get To Riverhead To Catch The LIE I 495 Back Home West I Spent $36 For 2 Ferries One 1 Way For My Car From Driving From Montauk To Greenport Riverhead Then Back To Glen Cove Which Was A Fun Experience The Distance Is Estimated To Be 164 Kilometers.
I also built and installed about all crossing gates to Greenport from Farmingdale and out east built all DSI signals . The good old days lol .
You Should Ride The Ferry Nextime
I built and installed all those block limit and dsi signals out there and on Montauk branch too .
Lovely ride. Thank you!
That’s was a fantastic ride I love the rural side of Long Island 🏝 hopefully those M3’s come back to service asap they look in perfect condition still
Buddy. 45mph is KO to MR. than 40mph MR to Mile post 73. Than 20mph mile post 73 and 74. Between mile post 73 and 74 is Riverhead Station. After mile post 74 40mph to all the way out to Greenport.
If you answered the previous question in the video, then I need to apologize in advance. As I stated, I have to download them with CZcams Premium, and then watch them in full length when I catch up with financial life. Thanks, Aarre Peltomaa
Great video! Great ride!
The oldest rail I’ve seen on that line east was 1918, my father retired from LIRR In 2004 as an engineer, his last trip was on the montuak branch, he always missed the gp38s.
The Shelter Island Ferry Gets From Greenport To Montauk Through Shelter Island And NY 114
My station is Riverhead
I’ve actually taken an entire train to ronkokoma, and then to riverhead.
Yip Yip Yaphank was a WWI ditty
Where I live in north-west MA. there are very few public crossings because people can't stand horns. It is the only rail across northern MA from a yard in NY north of Albany freight only.
Nice ride, thanks 😊 👍 🇺🇦
After looking at this video, it's safe for me to say: Greenport is further from Ronkonkoma than I thought.
It is further than one might think. I know it's a decent drive.
@@JimAllen-Persona I can imagine the views on the road are just as nice as they are on the tracks. Sorry for now just seeing this.
Ole’ Clickety Clack @ 24:03. He probably sensed you filming him!😮😂
Nah the C3 should use more their automatic announcements they have the Led Board of the destination too like the M7s/M8s/M9s
39:09 - the C3 did the full announcement chime!
Very cool! So it looks to be just a straight shot from ronkonkama to greenport? No train switches?
DM30ACS Never Appear On The Greenport Branch
8:39 Main St. Reccomended to railfan there
Before it always be 400 that pull 5009 on the line every time then they switched it to 409 and 5014 now
I would love to learn more about those switch indicator signals. Maybe even possibly see one with the lights on
I wonder why the LIRR didn’t continue to the Orient Point ferry terminal?
In Riverhead they also have a R S 3 and Steam loco . number 39
Did this train originate in Ronkonkoma ? If so, then that is intelligent. It should interface/transboard with electrics to Penn Station at Ronkonkoma, I believe.
If it originated in Jamaica or Long Island City, then why is it so short; did it drop off cars along the way ???? I really want to know. Aarre Peltomaa
Now Greenport Trains Are Numbered In The 900s Instead Of 200s
It's hard to believe that anyone would find this that interesting - but more power to you (I live in the area). I miss the old Setauket station. Great image of Brookhaven Terminal - literally I live up the road from it. That's why I've never seen the Yaphank train station - it's next to the county buildings. "Yip, Yip Yaphank".
That was my next suggestion for his train ride 😅
Do the Pine Barrens of LI have Pineys, such as the Pine Barrens of NJ have?
I’m not an expert on the varieties of pine trees, but there are definitely pine trees out there
@@3985uprr Pineys are people, not trees, and they have a way of life not found elsewhere.
@@stephenrichmond917 learn something new every day
At Riverhead you missed the RS 1 Alco and Engine 39
Was hidden
18:40 lolll someone playing will smith at the oscars
I didn’t notice it but I played it back and I heard it yes
Stuck At Greenport Till 9:49 PM And Montauk 10:05 PM I Waited Till 10:05 PM To Leave Montauk On A Friday If I Was In Greenport I’ll Wait Till 9:49 PM
They need to electrify the rest of the line.
Nice ride. Do you plan to do a Danbury Branch Direct & fan the PM Peak in Danbury? As well the Waterbury Branch? From Bridgeport to Waterbury?
I would probably just do the branches not the entire ride from New York
Do what ever is best for you.
2:25 Ronkonkoma
14:32 Medford
22:15 Yaphank
46:19 Riverhead
1:02:45 Mattituck
1:16:04 Southold
1:25:38 Greenport
Riverhead is my stop
38:55 and this is where I hear it
7:26 Scenic ride? Lmao It’s a bunch of dead trees. If he thinks that’s scenic, he clearly doesn’t get out much
I get out plenty. The open farmland is quite pretty and many viewers enjoyed the video
Doesn’t sound like a line you want to ride back on. More like a “blah” to you.
Why would you think that?
Ronkonkoma is not all that far out from the city so Riverhead and North Fork towns will be some distance. I remember that Holtsville was where we would send our IRS tax returns.
@@3985uprr - Just going by the first 30 minutes of your trip analysis. That’s all.
@@damuck2010 The beginning of the ride is not very scenic but it gets so much better