SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2006
The Long Island-Sunrise Trail Chapter of the National Railway Historical
Society, in co-operation with the MTA-Long Island Rail Road, is
operating its first Multiple-Unit fantrip to commemorate the final days
of the LIRR’s M1 fleet. They were state-of-the-art when placed in
service in 1968 and are to be retired by the end of 2006.
Ride our solid consist of M1’s for a special trip with lots of
running and a planned itinerary that includes VD Yard in Brooklyn, Penn
Station, West Side Storage Yard, Long Island City, Hillside Service
Facility, Garden-Mitchel Secondary, East Williston and the Far Rockaway
Branch.
A lunch stop is scheduled at Penn Station. (lunch is NOT included in
price)
TICKET PRICES: $55 PER ADULT/ $45 PER CHILD UNDER 12 YEARS OF AGE
TRIP RUNS RAIN OR SHINE WITH NO REFUNDS.
LEAVE JAMAICA STA. PROMPTLY AT 8:30 AM, RETURN AT 5 PM.
PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES AND RARE MILEAGE PLANNED.
APPROPRIATE FOOTWEAR REQUIRED–NO OPEN-TOE SHOES!
2007 LIRR CALENDARS AND THE BRAND NEW N.Y. CONNECTING RR BOOK WILL BE
AVAILABLE FOR SALE ONBOARD THE TRAIN
Visit our website for details and ticket order form: www.nrhs-list.org
http://www.nrhs-list.org/
As a kid I lived in New York City back in the late 60s-early 70s. Rode the IRT subway a lot with my parents.
Some of you may laugh but I remember being pleasantly stunned the first time I saw an LIRR train of these cars. To me they looked like ultra sleek, “extra-long” subway cars…especially when I saw the familiar two-tone blue “MTA” logo on them.
I finally rode one as an adult in 1991 when I returned to NY to help out a relative. I really enjoyed the ride. Dream come true!
I was glad to see that they weren’t badly trashed with graffitti like the subway cars were.
Too far away to join you on the trip. I rode the first fantrip using these cars in 1968, when they first went into service. Later, we had a trip using the two experimental combination gas-turbin-electric derivations of the M-1. Rewmember the massive program to upgrade the stations for high platforms throughout the electric zone because the M-1’s don’t have traps and steps?
What is really interesting is the huge difference between the Zip Post-WWII Port Authority-financed cars of 1949-1950, which became the demotored coaches for the diesel trains later, and the 18-year later M-1’s, a huge difference, and the only small differences between the M-1’s and their current 38-year-later replacements! (Except for the stupid pantograph gates at the A-ends’ corners, they should have used regular diaphrams as between B-ends to solve the problem.)