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Long Island Rail Road A comprehensive history Part 2 FNS&C Railroad Hard Cover
The Long Island Rail Road Part 2 The Flushing, North Shore & Central Railroad by Vincent F Seyfried A comprehensive history
Copy 83 of 550
Hard Cover (NOTICE the scuffing on the cover)
154 pages
Copyright 1963
CONTENTS
PREFACE v
THE FLUSHING R.R. TAKES SHAPE 1
THE FLUSHING R.R.'s EARLY YEARS 11
THE FLUSHING R.R. GOES DOWN HILL 27
THE NORTH SHORE R.R. 41
A RIVAL ROAD TAKES SHAPE 51
OPERATIONS ON THE FLUSHING & NORTH SIDE R.R., 1868-187265
THE CENTRAL RAILROAD OF LONG ISLAND 81
THE HEYDAY OF THE POPPENHUSENS 99
COLLAPSE OF THE POPPENHUSEN SYSTEM 119
ROSTER OF PASSENGER STATIONS 143
ROSTER OF ROLLING STOCK 151
PREFACE
Preface
Volume I of the Long Island Rail Road history presented the story of the South Side Railroad, one of the Long Island's early competitors. Volume II presented here tells the interesting story of the other great competitor that the Long Island faced in the post-Civil War period: the Flushing, North Shore & Central Railroad. As the title implies, this railroad was essentially a union of three originally separate roads; its history, in effect, is the story of the railroads that radiated from two centers: Flushing and Garden City.
As in the case of the South Side Railroad, almost no original sources relating to the Flushing roads or to the Central Railroad have come down to us; successive warehouse fires and the disinterest on the part of officialdom have effectively destroyed the records of an earlier day. It has been necessary, therefore, to rely on the contemporary newspapers of the island for a detailed account of the road. All the newspapers in the area served by the Flushing, North Shore & Central Railroad have been searched to make this story as complete as possible. These include: FLUSHING JOURNAL, 1850-1880; FLUSHING TIMES, 1873-1884; LONG ISLAND FARMER (Jamaica), 1865-1871; LONG ISLAND DEMOCRAT (Jamaica), 1865-1882; NEWTOWN REGISTER (Elmhurst), 18731882; HEMPSTEAD INQUIRER, 1870-1880; SOUTH SIDE SIGNAL (Babylon), 1869-188o; LONG ISLAND HEADLIGHT (Farmingdale), 1873-1875; LONG ISLAND LEADER (Port Jefferson), 1873-1876.
Although accounts of the Flushing & North Side Railroad and the Central Railroad have appeared from time to time, it has been possible to present here a much fuller and more detailed picture, thanks to the large amount of new material uncovered in the little-known country press of that day. The original Flushing Railroad and the North Shore Railroad have never been researched before to the writer's knowledge, and the account presented here is the first to tell the full story of these pioneer roads.
The author is indebted to Mr. Harold Fagerberg of Babylon and to Mr. Harold L. Goldsmith of Woodside for photographs of rolling stock and stations; to Mr. Jeffrey Winslow for layout and arrangement of the pictures and maps; to Mr. Felix Reifschneider for his unfailing counsel and encouragement, and for arranging the publication of the book; finally, to the Long Island Historical Society for making available its extensive newspaper collection.
Volume III, covering the history of the Long Island Rail Road proper from the end of the Civil War to 1880, is now in preparation.
VINCENT F. SEYFRIED
Garden City, N. Y. April 1963
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