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Image: Photograph of the Stony Brook train station house, c. 1905. Photograph by Arthur
S. Greene.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Title
Robert M. Emery Long Island Rail Road Collection
Collection Number
SC 243
OCLC Number
122536679
Creator
Robert M. Emery, 1925-1995
Provenance
The collection was purchased from Robert M. Emery in 1976.
Extent, Scope, and Content Note
The collection is comprised of 73.5 linear ft. of detailed pencil drawings by Emery
of Long Island Rail Road tracks, with explanatory notes; 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. Items
date from 1880-1998.
Arrangement and Processing Note
The scrapbook albums are arranged geographically by railroad line. Timetables are
arranged chronologically. In the late 1980s, photographs were removed from the albums
for preservation reasons. They are housed in separate boxes.
Finding aid updated May 2013 by Kristen J. Nyitray. Updated May 2019.
Language
English
Restrictions on Access
The collection is open to researchers without restriction.
Rights and Permissions
Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection
does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole
responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials
to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission
where needed prior to publication.
Citation
[Item], [Box], Robert M. Emery Long Island Rail Road Collection, Special Collections,
Stony Brook University Libraries
Historical Note
Robert M. Emery (b. March 23, 1925, d. August 1, 1995) joined the Long Island Rail
Road in 1943 and retired in 1976. His first job after graduating from Mattituck High
School (NY) was as a trainman; he was a conductor at the time of his retirement. In
1976, Stony Brook University acquired through purchase his extensive collection which
documents the history of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR).
Subjects
Long Island Rail Road.
Railroads -- New York (State) -- Long Island.
Railroad tracks.
Railroads -- Design and construction.
Railroad trains.
Railroads -- Timetables.
Railroad conductors.
Railroad stations -- New York (State)
Long Island (N.Y.) -- History.
Railroad stations.
Railroads.
New York (State)
New York (State) -- Long Island.
INVENTORY
Box 1
Book 1
Atlantic Branch, or "Old Southern Road."
12" x 18"; 36 p.
Jamaica Central Railways.
Photograph boxes: 1A, 1B
Book 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.
Photograph boxes: 2A, 2B
Book 3
Montauk Branch. Valley Stream to Baldwin, showing New York and Long Island Traction
Company.
12" x 18"; 48 p.
Photograph boxes: 3A, 3B
Book 4
Montauk Branch. Baldwin to Wantagh.
12" x 18"; 48 p.
Freeport Railroad Company and New York and Long Island Traction Company.
Photograph boxes: 4A, 4B
Box 2
Book 5
Montauk Branch. Wantagh to Babylon.
12" x 18"; 60 p.
Babylon Railroad Company, South Shore Traction Company; Huntington Railroad Company.
Photograph boxes: 5A, 5B
Book 6
Montauk Branch. Babylon to Blue Point.
12" x 18"; 60 p.
Suffolk Traction. South Shore Traction.
Photograph boxes: 6A, 6B
Book 7
Montauk Branch. Patchogue to Quogue.
12" x 18"; 60 p.
Manorville Branch. Suffolk Traction Map.
Photograph boxes: 7A, 7B, 7C
Box 3
Book 8
Montauk Branch. Hampton Bays to Montauk.
12" x 18"; 60 p.
Sag Harbor Branch.
Photograph boxes: 8A, 8B, 8C
Book 9
Montauk Branch. Montauk.
12" x 18"; 17 p.
Photograph boxes:: 9A, 9B
Book 10
Main Line. Rockaway Junction to Floral Park in "two track days." Belmont Park Branch.
12" x 18"; 18 p.
Photograph boxes: 10A, 10B
Book 11
Main Line. Hillside to New Hyde Park.
12" x 18"; 48 p.
Belmont Park Branch.
Photograph boxes: 11A, 11B
Box 4
Book 12
Main Line. Merillon Avenue to Hicksville.
12" x 18"; 48 p.
Mineola to Garden City.
Photograph boxes: 12A, 12B
Book 13
Main Line. Hicksville to Pinelawn.
12" x 18"; 48 p.
Bethpage Branch.
Photograph boxes: 13A, 13B
Book 14
Main Line. Pinelawn to Medford.
12" x 18"; 60 p.
Photograph boxes: 14A, 14B, 14C
Box 5
Book 15
Main Line. Medford to Riverhead.
12" x 18"; 50 p.
Camp Upton Branch.
Photograph boxes: 15A, 15B
Book 16
Main Line. Riverhead to Greenport.
12" x 18" 51 p.
Photograph boxes: 16A, 16B, 16C
Book 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.
Photograph boxes: 17A, 17B
Book 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.
Photograph boxes: 18A, 18B
Book 19
Oyster Bay Branch.
12" x 18"; 42 p.
Minneola to Locust Valley.
Nassau County Railway.
Glen Cove Railroad.
Photograph boxes: 19A, 19B
Book 20
Oyster Bay Branch.
12" x 18"; 50 p.
Locust Valley to Oyster Bay Whitestone Branch.
Photograph boxes: 20A, 20B
Box 6
Book 21
Glendale Cut-off and Rockaway Beach Branch.
11" x 14"; 64 p.
Photograph boxes: 21A, 21B
Book 22
Far Rockaway Branch. Cedarhurst cut-off.
11" x 14"; 57 p.
Photograph boxes: 22A, 22B
Book 23
Wading River Branch. Hicksville to Kings Park. Huntington Railroad Company.
12" x 18"; 49 p.
Northport Traction Company.
Photograph boxes: 23A, 23B, 23C
Book 24
Wading River Branch.
12" x 18"; 44 p.
Kings Park to Port Jefferson.
Photograph boxes: 24A, 24B, 24C
Book 25
Wading River Branch.
12" x 18"; 46 p.
Port Jefferson to Wading River.
Photograph boxes: 25A, 25B, 25C
Box 7
Book 26
North Shore Branch.
12" x 18"; 20 p.
Winfield to Corona.
Photograph boxes: 26A, 26B
Book 27
North Shore Branch.
12" x 18"; 48 p.
Corona to Port Washington.
Photograph boxes: 27A, 27B
Book 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.
Photograph boxes: 28A, 28B
Book 29
Atlantic Branch.
12" x 18"; 48 p.
Flatbush Avenue to Woodhaven.
Photograph boxes: 29A, 29B
Box 8
Book 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.
Photograph boxes: 30A, 30B, 30C
Book 31
Montauk Branch. Fresh Pond to Richmond Hill.
12" x 18"; 30 p.
Photograph boxes: 31a, 31B
Book 32
Morris Park: Shops, and locomotive terminal.
12" x 18"; 60 p.
Photograph boxes: 32A, 32B, 32C, 32D, 32E
Book 33
Montauk Branch. Long Island City to Fresh Pond.
12" x 18"; 58 p.
Photograph boxes: 33A, 33B
Book 34
Main Line, including "New York Ferry Term."
12" x 18"; 60 p.
Long Island City to Woodside.
Photograph boxes: 34A, 34B
Book 35
Main Line. Woodside to Westbridge.
12" x 18"; 60 p.
North Shore Freight Branch.
Sunnyside Yard (Pennsylvania Railroad)
Photograph boxes: 35A, 35B
Box 9
Book 36
Bushwick Bridge. Evergreen Bridge.
12" x 18"; 60 p.
Bay Ridge Bridge and Manhattan Beach Bridge before grade crossing eliminations.
Photograph boxes: 36A, 36B
Book 37
Bay Ridge Branch.
12" x 18"; 60 p.
Fresh Pond to Manhattan Beach Junction.
Photograph boxes: 37A, 37B
Book 38
Bay Ridge Branch.
12" x 18"; 56 p.
Parkville to Bay Ridge Manhattan Beach Branch.
Photograph boxes: 38A, 38B
Box 10
Book 39
Scenes around the system.
12" x 18"; 56 p.
Photograph boxes: 39A, 39B, 39C
Book 40
Scenes around the system.
14" x 17"; 42 p.
Photograph boxes: 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
Rail Road engine no. 3805, a K4s type. March, 1942.
Box 12
Folder 1: Emery, Robert M. Directory of Long Island Rail Road Albums. Spiral notebook.
Page:
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 Rail Road 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 Rail Road 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 Rail Road Steam, electric, and
diesels listed.
73: Reading Company locomotives used on Long Island Rail Road Sperry Cars [Rail detectors]
used on Long Island Rail Road 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 Rail Road
89: Foreign railroad cars purchased by Long Island Rail Road
90: Long Island Rail Road Parlor Cars
92-93: Caboose
94: Long Island Rail Road Freight Cars
95-113: Pennsylvania Rail Road Locomotives taken on Long Island Rail Road and 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 Rail Road Gas-Electric cars used on Long Island
Rail Road
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)
Folder 2: Pennsylvania Rail Road. Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Rail Road. Special
instructions. Effective September 1, 1910.
Folder 3: Pennsylvania Rail Road System. Operating Department. Rules for conducting
transportation. Approved by the Boards of Directors. Effective April 26, 1925.
Folder 4: Rules of the Long Island Rail Road Company for the government of the Operating
Department. Effective 2: 40 a.m., July 1st, 1926.
Folder 5: The Long Island Rail Road 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)
Folder 6: The Long Island Rail Road 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)
Folder 7: LIRR papers related to parlor car operations, 1963-1971
Folder 8: Operators Manual, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, The Budd Company,
c1957
Folder 9: LI: Newsday's Magazine for Long Island, February 11, 1979 ("The Other LIRR")
Box 13
Timetables, 1895, 1898-1925, 1928, 1930-1932, 1934, 1936, 1938-1945
Box 14
Flat timetables, 1947, 1949-1950, 1953-1957, 1959, 1963-1964, 1966, 1969-1974
Bound timetables, 1908, 1921, 1923, 1925-1933
Box 15
Bound timetables, 1933-1943
Box 16
Bound timetables, 1944-1953, 1955
Box 17
Bound timetables, 1955-1964
Box 18
Bound timetables, 1964-1970, 1974
Box 19
Timetables 1975-1992
Brake and train communicating signal instruction book, 1975
Box 19a
Assorted timetables, 1960-1970
Box 20
The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the U.S., Puerto
Rico, Canada, Mexico and Cuba
March 1937
Box 21
Spiral notebook
MTA map, July, 1998
Assorted articles
Box 22
"A Comprehensive Look at Operations and Equipment over the Years including Rosters."
Box 23a
Unpublished memoir by Robert M. Emery
Box 23b
Service copy: Unpublished memoir by Robert M. Emery
Box 24
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 25a
Two scrapbooks: labelled, "LIRR Info" and "LIRR Momento's"
Folder 1: postal covers
Folders 2-5: memorabilia and ephemera
Folder 6: Montauk Steamboat Company
Folder 7: name plate: "R. Emery"
Box 25b
Framed photographs, 1941 (4)
1: Freight Loco No. 109 Class H10, Port Jefferson, July 1941
2: Class G5s at Port Jefferson, February 12, 1941
3: Switching Loc at L/I. City, "Wheelspur Yard," July 31, 1941
4: Train No. 631 at Port Jefferson Yard, July 16, 1941
Boxes 26a, 26b, 26c
Assorted Long Island Rail Road papers
Timetables
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).
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