Tour of the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum. It’s Opening Day 2024. 4/27/24
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2024
- First time I’ve ever visited this museum and we take a little tour inside the depot building and outside in the train yard.  We take a spin on the newly revived turntable, which was the original turntable in Oyster Bay. We also take an informative and rather hysterical cab tour of the DE30 #423 mockup cab.  I’m sure you Engineers out there will be glad I never went into the Engineer Training Program 🤣🤣. Perhaps the youngsters that were with me up there shouldn’t either.  We also get a tour of the grounds from museum volunteer Rafael (or is it Raphael?).  I had a fun time and the museum is definitely worth visiting.
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Thanks for the tour. I enjoyed that. Always good to see a place I’m unlikely to ever visit for real. Best wishes from the UK
Glad you enjoyed it. I had never been to the rr museum in York. Looks interesting. I’ve been to York but overlooked the museum due to time constraints.
I saw this turntable working back in '69 or '70. I was on an elementary school trip from Hicksville to Oyster Bay. I think I was in kindergarten or 1st grade. I remember an orange engine going onto the turntable and honking its horn at us while it rotated round and round. I suspect it was an RS-3 or RS-1.
This will be my Saturday trip when I go to NYC in early June. Going to visit some family and then go see my Dodgers take on the Yankees in the Bronx
Good Evening Tim!! Hi!! I am so glad you got to visit the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum today. I was supposed to have worked there today to do some painting with my manager Gary Farkash, but apparently, he told me that he found out that they were going to do some plumbing work instead of a painting job. I normally go there because I love to paint especially all of the model trains that are on display. Whenever I can work, I am there from 12:30pm until 2:30pm on Saturdays during the spring and summer seasons. Thanks for stopping by and sorry I missed meeting you for the first time. For your information, the train museum is closed during the winter season just in case you did not know. Have a wonderful evening and enjoy the rest of your weekend my friend. By the way, I might weather pending be taking the train tomorrow Sunday, but I don't know what time, or where I will go yet. My friend who will pick me up tomorrow, will let me know. Take Care my fellow railfan!! 🙂
I’m glad you kept the blooper at 0:38 in 😂
It seemed funny.
Interesting museum!! Thanks Tim💚👌
Hi Tim,
Great tour of the museum. I hope to see it this year. My better half is involved with the nearby Oak Cliff sailing center so I may very well get to Oyster Bay. I lived in Westbury in the 1950s.
Ray from Philadelphia
Thanks for posting this, I have to hit the museum up next time I'm back up on LI from Florida!
Beautiful video as always!! Thank you Tim , from Milan, Italy!
Long Island Railroad bought its last steam locomotive in 1929 a G5. By 1939 it bought its first diesel locomotive a switcher.
That pedal is the dead man’s pedal, meant to stop the train if the engineer falls unconscious. If it is let go, the train goes into emergency stop.
Figured as much
I actually remember that "simulator" at 21:50 from the 1964 World's Fair.
Happy heavenly birthday to your father
Great meeting you!
I also apologize I called the NH Boxcar a Caboose on both occasions, guess I had caboose on the mind considering we were operating on it all day
You too!
@@empirestaterails I was puzzled as I only saw a box car
Same here. Good tour.
It really sucks how they closed so many stations rather than renovating them.
That 25 tonner has been at Morris Park engine shops since the 70s. Bring back the RS3s. Climbed in that FA 2 cab during the worlds fair LONG TIME AGO,
Tim you will make a great Engineer....you seem to know what your doing 😂😂😂 the LIRR would love to hire you
Too late in life. Thanks. I’ve tried a few times to get on. It wasn’t meant to be. This is as close as I’ll get 😀😀
@@3985uprr never too old for anything to be honest with you you did great
The turntable was out of commission well before the DE's came to LIRR. I have pictures of the turntable back in '93 and it looked abandoned for a while. I do not remember if it was severed from the yard track. I suspect they stopped using it in the early '80s.
Nice video Tim. I visited the museum some years back, taking the LIRR from Mineola and back. Some friends of mine are volunteers at the museum (one, Gary F, is seen when they were operating the turntable). Rafael needs to do some homework. The coach is a P54, not MP54, and was built by American Car and Foundry (ACF), not the Pennsylvania RR.
I didn’t want to contradict him in the middle of the video, but I heard what he said.
One of the most funniest videos I have seen. Thanks Tim
Is that real life Samson from the brave locomotive?!?! At 1:17
Happy birthday To Your Farther
He would have been 102 today
Tim, do you know when the Super Steels are due to be replaced by the Siemens Chargers?
A few years away yet
Had no idea the diesels didn’t have self lapping brakes. NJ transit alp45 and alp46’s are the same way I believe.
I've been great museam
HO stands for Handle Off
Ahhhhh.
kid in transit vest
I was there
Did the old Pennsylvania railroad ran express or local at the time it was in service?
Depends on the service. They ran both