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Originally Posted by sean sean sean sean
South Side Rail Road was what became the LIRR Babylon/Montauk Branch. The diagonal route between Bethpage/Babylon was part of the Central Rail Road of LI. It originally ran from Flushing to the Fire Island ferry docks in Babylon, but now the only pieces intact are this one and the Hempstead LIRR branch, as well as the extension that the circus trains run on.
There are a lot of excellent web pages on Long Island's railroad history, if anybody is interested. Arrts-Archives has several articles on the Central (click around on the "Stewart" pages, it's the same thing).
Personally, I think we'd do pretty well if they re-activated a lot of these old lines. Here's a picture of a steam engine running on the Main Line in 1900 in Bethpage, this is the same spot where the Central & Main Lines still meet. Pretty cool, huh?
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Yeah my memory was off a bit. The Central Railroad of Long Island used to run that branch. Today the LIRR keeps it as a one track connecting line that lets trains get from the South Shore line (Montauk) in Babylon to the central line (or main line) near Farmingdale. Most of the passenger trains I have seen on the line have been the new double decker types.
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