Robert M. Emery Long Island Railroad Collection
Manuscript Collection 243

Description:
Long Island Railroad collection, 1895-1974.
10 cubic ft. (40 scrapbooks, 262 timetables).
Organization: Arranged geographically by railroad line, and chronologically by timetable.
Railroad conductor.
Detailed pencil drawings of Long Island Railroad tracks, with explanatory notes by Emery; over 5,000 identified photographs and postcards of construction, wrecks, engines, trains, depots, conductors, and other railroad scenes; 262 timetables; and other material relating to the railroad. Collected 1960-1970.

Finding aid updated in August 2004 by F.Berenice Baez-Revueltas and Kristen J. Nyitray.

Box 1

Scrapbook 1
Atlantic Branch, or "Old Southern Road" 12" x 18"18" 36 p.
Jamaica Central Railways
Albums: 1A, 1B

Scrapbook 2
Montauk Branch. Hillside to Valley Stream. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Also showing "Atlantic Branch," Springfield Junction to Valley Stream, and the "Long Beach Branch," Valley Stream to Lynbrook, and the New York and Long Island Traction Co.’s Line.
Albums: 2A, 2B

Scrapbook 3
Montauk Branch. Valley Stream to Baldwin, showing New York and Long Island Traction Company, also. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Albums: 3A, 3B

Scrapbook 4
Montauk Branch. Baldwin to Wantagh. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Freeport Railroad Company and New York and Long Island Traction Company
Albums: 4A, 4B

Box 2

Scrapbook 5
Montauk Branch. Wantagh to Babylon. 12" x 18" 60 p.
Babylon Railroad Company, South Shore Traction Company; Huntington Railroad Company
Albums: 5A, 5B

Scrapbook 6
Montauk Branch. Babylon to Blue Point. 12" x 18" 60 p.
Suffolk Traction. South Shore Traction.
Albums: 6A, 6B

Scrapbook 7
Montauk Branch. Patchogue to Quogue. 12" x 18" 60 p.
Manorville Branch. Suffolk Traction Map.
Albums: 7A, 7B, 7C

Box 3

Scrapbook 8
Montauk Branch. Hampton Bays to Montauk. 12" x 18" 60 p.
Sag Harbor Branch.
Albums: 8A, 8B, 8C

Scrapbook 9
Montauk Branch. Montauk. 12" x 18" 17 p.
Albums: 9A, 9B

Scrapbook 10
Main Line. Rockaway Junction to Floral Park in "two track days." Belmont Park Branch. 12" x 18" 18 p.
Albums: 10A, 10B

Scrapbook 11
Main Line. Hillside to New Hyde Park. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Belmont Park Branch.
Albums: 11A, 11B

Box 4

Scrapbook 12
Main Line. Merillon Avenue to Hicksville. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Minneola to Garden City.
Albums: 12A, 12B

Scrapbook 13
Main Line. Hicksville to Pinelawn. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Bethpage Branch.
Albums: 13A, 13B

Scrapbook 14
Main Line. Pinelawn to Medford. 12" x 18" 60 p.
Albums: 14A, 14B, 14C

Box 5

Scrapbook 15
Main Line. Medford to Riverhead. 12" x 18" 50 p.
Camp Upton Branch.
Albums: 15A, 15B

Scrapbook 16
Main Line. Riverhead to Greenport. 12" x 18" 51 p.
Albums: 16A, 16B, a6C

Scrapbook 17
Creedmore Branch. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Flushing, North Shore Central Railroad Company.
Great Neck Junction to Creedmore Central Branch.
Floral Park to "HC" Tower.
Hempstead Branch "HC" Tower to Hempstead Central Extension.
"HC" Tower to Salisbury Plains
Albums: 17A, 17B

Scrapbook 18
Central Extension. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Salisbury Plains to Bethpage Junction Central Branch.
Bethpage Junction to Babylon West Hempstead Branch.
Long Beach Branch.
Albums: 18A, 18B

Scrapbook 19
Oyster Bay Branch. 12" x 18" 42 p.
Minneola to Locust Valley
Nassau County Railway
Glen Cove Railroad
Albums: 19A, 19B

Scrapbook 20
Oyster Bay Branch. 12" x 18" 50 p.
Locust Valley to Oyster Bay Whitestone Branch.
Albums: 20A, 20B

Box 6

Scrapbook 21
Glendale Cut-off and Rockaway Beach Branch. 11" x 14" 64 p.
Albums: 21A, 21B

Scrapbook 22
Far Rockaway Branch. Cedarhurst Cut-off. 11" x 14" 57 p.
Albums: 22A, 22B

Scrapbook 23
Wading River Branch. Hicksville to Kings Park. Huntington Railroad Company 12" x 18" 49 p.
Northport Traction Company
Albums 23A, 23B, 23C

Scrapbook 24
Wading River Branch. 12" x 18" 44 p.
Kings Park to Port Jefferson.
Albums 24A, 24B, 24C

Scrapbook 25
Wading River Branch. 12" x 18" 46 p.
Port Jefferson to Wading River.
Albums 25A, 25B, 25C

Box 7

Scrapbook 26
North Shore Branch. 12" x 18" 20 p.
Winfield to Corona.
Albums: 26A, 26B

Scrapbook 27
North Shore Branch. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Corona to Port Washington.
Albums 27A, 27B

Scrapbook 28
Atlantic Branch. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Atlantic Branch: Woodhaven to Morris Park in 1929
Atlantic Branch: Morris Park to Jamaica, Beaver Street in 1908.
Montauk Branch. Richmond Hill to Hillside in 1908, 1922
Main Line. West of Jamaica to Hillside in 1908, 1929.
Albums: 28A, 28B

Scrapbook 29
Atlantic Branch. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Flatbush Avenue to Woodhaven.
Albums: 29A, 29B

Box 8

Scrapbook 30
Atlantic Branch. Dunton to Jamaica 1940. 12" x 18" 48 p.
Montauk Branch. Richmond Hill to Hillside 1940.
Main Line. Westbridge to Hillside 1940.
Albums: 30A, 30B, 30C

Scrapbook 31
Montauk Branch. Fresh Pond to Richmond Hill. 12" x 18" 30 p.
Albums: 31a, 31B

Scrapbook 32
Morris Park: Shops, and locomotive terminal. 12" x 18" 60 p.
Albums: 32A, 32B, 32C, 32D, 32E

Scrapbook 33
Montauk Branch. Long Island City to Fresh Pond. 12" x 18" 58 p.
Albums: 33A, 33B

Scrapbook 34
Main Line, including "New York Ferry Term." 12" x 18" 60 p.
Long Island City to Woodside.
Albums 34A, 34B

Scrapbook 35
Main Line. Woodside to Westbridge. 12" x 18" 60 p.
North Shore Freight Branch
Sunnyside Yard (Pennsylvania Railroad)
Albums: 35A, 35B

Box 9

Scrapbook 36
Bushwick Bridge. Evergreen Bridge. 12" x 18" 60 p.
Bay Ridge Bridge and Manhattan Beach Bridge before grade crossing eliminations.
Albums: 36A, 36B

Scrapbook 37
Bay Ridge Branch. 12" x 18" 60 p.
Fresh Pond to Manhattan Beach Junction.
Albums: 37A, 37B

Scrapbook 38
Bay Ridge Branch. 12" x 18" 56 p.
Parkville to Bay Ridge Manhattan Beach Branch.
Albums 38A, 38B

Box 10

Scrapbook 39
Scenes around the system. 12" x 18" 56 p.
Albums: 39A, 39B, 39C

Scrapbook 40
Scenes around the system. 14" x 17" 42 p.
Albums 40A, 40B

Box 11

Framed photograph: Chesapeake & Ohio train no. 13, at Covington, Virginia. Feb., 1949. Engine 547, a 4-8-2 type.

Framed photograph: Sunday train No. 4206, east of Cutchogue, Long Island. Pennsylvania Railroad engine no. 3805, a K4s type. March, 1942.

Box 12

Emery, Robert M. Directory of Long Island Railroad Albums. Spiral notebook.
Numbers below refer to page numbers supplied by the Special Collections Department.
1: Key
2-40: Listing, by album, of names of photographers and total number of photographs in each album, for albums 1-39.
46-48: Class G5s locomotives--listing of album and page numbers.
49-50: Class H10s locomotives--listing of album and page numbers.
50: Class G53sa locomotives--listing of album and page numbers.
51: Class C51s2 locomotives--listing of album and page numbers.
52: Class H6sb locomotives--listing of album and page numbers.
53-54: Electric locomotives--listing of album and page numbers.
54: "Oil Electric" (Diesel) locomotives--listing of album and page numbers.
55-58: Diesels--listing of album and page numbers.
60-67: Long Island Railroad 1920 Roster
60: 4-4-2c
4-6-Oc
2-6-2T
61: 4-4-Oc
62-63: 4-4-O
63: 4-6-O
64:
64: 4-6-Oc
65: 2-8-Oc
2-8-O
66: O-6-O
67: 4-4-O
68-69: Long Island Railroad ca.1897-ca.1900 Roster.
68: "Old" 4-4-O types.
69: New York & Rockaway Beach R.R. locomotives
Long Island Railroad 500 class locomotives
Prospect Park & Coney Island RR
0-4-0T
2-4-6T
70-71: Ca.1880-1905 Roster.
70: Long Island Railroad "Forney Types" 0-4-4T
2-4-2T
0-4-6T
71: 4-6-0
0-6-0
2-4-0
72: N.Y.N.H. & H R.R. Locomotives used on Long Island Railroad Steam, electric, and diesels listed.
73: Reading Company locomotives used on Long Island Railroad Sperry Cars [Rail detectors] used on Long Island Railroad Central Islip State Hospital
76: Long Island Railroad "Self-propelled" gasoline or diesel cars
Budd car
Battery cars
Marine Division--Ferryboats, Tugboats.
77: Trolley cars: Glen Cove Railway, Nassau County Railway, Ocean Electric Railway, Huntington Railroad Company, Northport Traction Company
78: Wooden cars
79-87: Steel cars
88: Foreign railroad cars on loan to Long Island Railroad
89: Foreign railroad cars purchased by Long Island Railroad
90: Long Island Railroad Parlor Cars
92-93: Caboose
94: Long Island Railroad Freight Cars
95-113: Pennsylvania Railroad Locomotives taken on Long Island Railroad & in Sunnyside Yard, etc.
97: 0-6-0
98: 4-4-2
99: Electric locomotives
100: Class E6s--4-4-2
101: Class E7s--4-4-2
102: Class G5s--4-6-0; Pennsylvania Railroad Gas-Electric cars used on Long Island Railroad
103: Class H--2-8-0
104: Class K2 & K3--4-6-2
105: Class L1s--2-8-2
106: Class K4s--4-6-2
107: Class K4s--4-6-2
110-112: M of W; etc.
113: Push Pull Power Units (Class PC-6)

Pennsylvania Railroad. Pennsylvania Tunnel & Terminal Railroad. Special instructions. Effective September 1, 1910.

Pennsylvania Railroad System. Operating Department. Rules for conducting transportation. Approved by the Boards of Directors. Effective April 26, 1925.
Rules of the Long Island Railroad Company for the government of the Operating Department. Effective 2: 40 a.m., July 1st, 1926.

The Long Island Railroad Company. List of stations and sidings and instructions for making reports to the car record office and other information. Taking effect...March 1st, 1913. (C.R. 4)

The Long Island Railroad Company. List of stations and sidings and instructions for making reports to the car record office and other information. Taking effect...July 1st, 1924. (C.R. 4)

Box 13

Flat timetables, 1895-1945.

Box 14

Flat timetables, 1947-1974.
Bound timetables, 1925-1928.

Box 15
Bound timetables, 1933-1943.

Box 16
Bound timetables, 1944-1955.

Box 17
Bound timetables, 1955-1964.

Box 18
Bound timetables, 1964-1974.

Box 19
Timetables 1975-

Box 20
Bound Timetables 1975-

Box 21
The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the U.S., Porto Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba.
March 1937

Box 22

Spiral Notebook (this is probably a copy of C S Smalls’ proposed book on Railroads’ of Long Island)

MTA Map, July, 1998

Misc. Articles

Box 23

A Comprehensive look at Operations and Equipment over the years including Rosters.

Box 24

Unpublished memoir
Robert Emery
LIRR

Box 25

Framed Photograph: NY- Atlantic City train no. 1073 leaving Trenton with K4s no. 5426. Train is ascending grade on Bordentown Branch just west of station. Taken on a hot summer day.
June, 1953

Framed Photograph: “Steam Days” at Patchogue.
June, 1942
Train 55 “The Noon Train” about ready to leave the station

Framed Photograph: “On that wonderful day of the past”
Nov. 26, 1967
No. 60 climbs into the Shinnecock Hills near M. Post 83

Framed Photograph: Engine 24 pulling Tr. 610, tops the 1% grade east of Smithtown
March 5, 1955

Framed Photograph: “On that wonderful day out of the past”
Nov. 26, 1967
Passing P.D. tower in Patchogue

Framed Photograph: “Last Day of Steam on Dl W RR”
June 5, 1953
Eng 1137, 4-6-2 type heads train 1055 on the Benton Line near West End Tower, J. City

Framed Photograph: “Erie Main Line Scene”
1949

Framed Photograph: PRR K4s No. 3655 on train No. 725
Sea GIRT N.J.
July 14, 1952

Framed Photograph: Pennsylvania Rail Road No. 1179 on Tr. 627 at Port Jefferson, NY
Sept 7, 1942
Eng. Is class E6s

Framed Photograph: Chesapeake Ohio 1626, a 2-6-6-6 type.
Westbound with 143 empty coal hoppersTaken east of Covington, Va. on the James River Line
March, 1949

Box 26

2 Scrapbooks
Memorabilia & ephemera
Montauk Steamboat Company
Postal covers
Framed Photographs: 1941 (4)

Box 27

Misc. Long Island Rail Road papers

Folder: Timetables

Maps:

Map of Long Island, Showing the Long Island Railroad System and Montauk Steamboat Company's Lines (1904).
22 X 56 cm. (Special Collections G3802 .L6 P3 1904 - Map)

Map of Long Island Showing Long Island Railroad. 1927. Copyright Rand, McNally and Company, New York and Chicago, 1927. 130.5 X 50.5 cm. (1 map dissected in 2 pieces; sheets 57 x 68 cm.). (Special Collections G3802 .L6 P3 1927 .R28 - Map).