I'm curious about where and how the Long Island Railroad might have used baggage cars. I grew up on the South Shore of Long Island, where the LIRR was electrified. I don't think I ever saw a baggage car. Were they used on any of the North Shore lines?
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Interesting question, I pulled out my weary copy of the LIRR Book "Steel Rails to the Sunrise" and found a few pictures, which prompted me to look up the Long Island Rail Road Museum. Here is the link, and photos. Great question though, thanks for asking. https://rmli.org/our-collectio...il-baggage-car-7737/
In the 70's I used to ride a Montauk branch train that still delivered copies of Newsday. The Fisherman's Specials they ran had a baggage car equipped with ice racks to keep the fish caught fresh. Also they ran bicycle specials which would carry the bicycles out to a point on the Island where folks would then ride back. After the baggage cars were gone they used a leased D&H "I Love NY" box car for this special.
Much earlier the LIRR had a fleet of 40 foot baggage cars that looked like the Ping-Pong coaches that carried summer vacationers luggage out to the resort towns. At one point they ran a solid baggage train with cars being dropped off at different stations to unload.
Thank you so much, great memories. The South Shore was so routine, totally commuter...
SIRT - absolutely awesome reply. Thank you.
Hiram, check this site out: Trainsarefun.com all things LIRR.
This link is for baggage cars; http://www.trainsarefun.com/li...gage/lirrbaggage.htm
Andy
@HiramO posted:I'm curious about where and how the Long Island Railroad might have used baggage cars. I grew up on the South Shore of Long Island, where the LIRR was electrified. I don't think I ever saw a baggage car. Were they used on any of the North Shore lines?
Grew up in Baldwin in the 60's-70's, nothing but tin cans.....
Bob
Some photos of a LIRR B-40 baggage car I bought on eBay. Someone scratch built this from Bristol board in 2 rail. This is the car I mentioned being used in the summer to haul vacationers luggage out to the Island resorts. They had 20 of these cars built in 1910. This style of construction was used on the Ping Pong passenger cars later.
Eventually went into work service, several lasting until the dark grey and orange paint scheme. The history of these cars is in the link below including their use on the Fisherman's Specials.
Nice background information Scotie.
Andy
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