LIRR Hempstead Branch Front Window: Jamaica to Hempstead
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Shot from M3 car #9668 on Train 770, departing Jamaica at 6:32 PM on Friday, July 22, 2016. It originated at Atlantic Terminal 6:08 PM. We make all station stops along the way. After leaving Garden City, the track that continues straight ahead is the abandoned "Central Branch" which continued to Bethpage before it merged back with the main line to Ronkonkoma and Greenport. The only section of the Central Branch still in service is between Bethpage and Babylon, used by Montauk Line trains but without any stations en route.
The Hempstead Branch may have some points of interest, such as the unique Country Life Press station and the grade crossings of the tree-lined ROW, but I think it's one of the less interesting sections of the railroad given the relatively slow speed.
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Excellent video. Great cinematography. Great scenery. Praise the Lord.
Word yo
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My old branch line when I lived in Bellerose. Thank you for sharing!
I take the train from Bellerose twice a week!
Nice video. I used to live on the east side of the golf course just before the Nassau Blvd. station. It's always a better view when shooting eastbound legs in the PM or evening- the sunlight from behind improves the view.
Excellent Video!! Thank you for the great journey!!
Did you speed the video up? Or did all of the Floral Park passengers do coke on the train?
Jamaica: 00:00
(Hillside Facility: 5:30)
Hollis: 6:37
Queens Village: 10:10
Bellerose: 12:24
Floral Park: 14:26
Stewart Manor: 17:30
Nassau Boulevard: 19:57
Garden City: 22:49
Country Life Press: 25:56
Hempstead: 30:01
Ben Dolinko Train 470
Thank you
Byron Chavarria word yo
Hillside facility 5:54
Featuring Country Life Press the most oddly named station on the LIRR, this was cool I only took this train once or twice to get to NCC when I had no car
my family lives right next door to the station. it was named after a publishing company now called Doubleday, which still sits right behind the tracks.
@Bobby Brady YES!!!! i lived right there. a childhood friend's grandmother had worked there. I think a couple other older women ive known said they also worked there years ago
My dad walked to the station from where we lived on Willow St, early 1950s.
I've been a fan of the M3's since I was a baby living in bedstuy watching them go across the Atlantic Ave trestle
thats where my family was from
That section of the abandoned “central branch “ is known as the Garden - Mitchell Secondary. The Circus Train used to park there!
at 29:39 you can hear the Mr. Softee ice cream truck jingle in the background...
Great Video, Thanks
from 24:40 to the end, why is it just a single track? the other part of the line was a full double track?
I see, thank you for your response :)
Seldom do you actually need a train to leave the terminus as one arrives, plus the trackwork from Garden interlocking (the junction) hadn't ever been built with a second track, so they do without. Even at their current headways, there is enough room to have this short bottleneck.
On the LIRR, many end-of-line termini are like that actually. Oyster Bay, Long Beach and Port Washington have geographic constraints (high fills, Reynolds Channel, bridge & hills) yet operationally aren't harmed.
@@harrisonbalduf3290 To be fair, this causes compounding delays on the Port Washington branch. Often times trains leave 2-5 minutes late because the arriving train arrives 2-5 minutes late. Then the next train has to wait for the leaving train at Great Neck, and the delays compound in a circle all through rush hour. Hempstead and Long Beach have shorter single track ROW's so don't experience the compounding delays like Port Wash. They should probably consider adding a siding or interlocking somewhere east of Great Neck to help out.
@@WestAirAviationHaving only ridden the line once, I apologize for being unaware of this phenomena. I am curious as to how often do you observe such compounding delay. I could understand it being costly to double the viaduct, but a siding east of it would not be a terrible idea. As modern automation goes it could be controlled remotely, but I'm curious if it'd be worth the $15M or so it'd take to construct.
@@Nedsonland Also from the history of who built what part of the lines determined where second tracks were put. From the split from the main at Hollis to the crossing past Garden City was originally the Central RR of Long Island, who build to a double-track standard.
From the crossing at Garden City around the sharp curve was a junction of the LIRR's line to Hempstead from Mineola. From Country Life Press the line 'sashays' over to the east onto the alignment of the Central of LI's branch to Hempstead, which was single track. Upon consolidation of the companies they consolidated routes to what we have today.
I learned much of the LIRR's history from Arrt's Archives, which offers great perspective into the history of the system and how that affects today's operations:
arrts-arrchives.com/index.html
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No gives a hoot the produce is bad in a&p
I could literally walk to Nassau blvd station
i lived right across form the country life press stop! it drove me crazy when they moved the machiens allll the way over to the garden city end of the train and i'd have to walk far down just to get a ticket lol
After Country life press the tracks use to go to the right and connect to the West Hempstead station.
Yup
Tracks were removed in March, 1963.
We know
Anything good in Hollis, Queens Village, Bellerose or Floral Park? It looks boring as Hell there
lot of angry people- but that's all of long island . there is toxic material in the water supply ..called the bethpage plume. It's poisoned people here for generations with neurotoxins
@Bobby Brady right but those towns are over in queens arent they?oh Im sorry yeah Im talking about way over in the east part of nassau county. there i go with my big mouth bitching about LI every chance i get lol. And no- my whole life most people used regular tap water at least part of the time. Come to think of it growing up msot of the time my mom would get those huge poland spring taps to drink water from. but before that, very few people regularly drank bottled water or filtered their water.
@Bobby Brady i grew up in nassau county and i only learned of the plume several years ago. i never knew it was common knowledge, no one ever talked about it
@Bobby Brady yeah distilled water was what we drank; but i think if anything it was a result of hearing all the stuff about cancer rates and pollution and ocean dumping in jones beach. Nothing about any particular toxic dump underneath our feet
@Bobby Brady theres a lot of cancer in my family..
Great video !
25:43 - Is this the original West Hempstead ROW to the right?
RedArrow73 where is it at the right?
How come it took forever to get to Hempstead train station
Thats Train 470 Hempstead Branch 400S
Port Washington Branch 700S
Excellent job and if they really extend the central branch past Hempstead towards Babylon it would have been electrified and give Babylon trains another route to penn station by bypassing Bellmore Freeport Lynnbrook if an incident were to occur on that section between Babylon and Valley Stream where the line is 2 tracks with normal stops after Floral Park our Jamaica Parsons Archer connection to E Train Woodside 61st Street 7 train and lastly Penn Station connections to IND 8th ave & IRT 7th ave later Grand Central terminal if the 1970s East Side Access Project was completed around 2020-2024 connection to IRT East Side line
EpicThe112 to many house in the way
I could walk to Nassau blvd station
I love close to it
Live
How long will the m3s be in service.
probably until the end of the decade
RadRoad Reversers by now they will be off track in da next 4 years
That track that goes straight after Garden City isn't it still active for freight
Sadly no. Gov. Pataki made a deal in the 90's to close it to freight.
Train 470 To Hempstead