Does anyone know the dimensions to the Oyster Bay station? I haven't been able to find anything on the web or at Walthers.
Well, here is the Oyster Bay station. Passenger cars are 85' long, so you can measure this out for yourself.
The last time I was there they were riding on ping pong coaches and there was a turntable at the end of the line. That seems to be gone now, replaced with high-level platforms.
Here I have zoomed in closer. The old station house is off to the Left, the new one is north of the tracks with parking to the north of that. The old turntable does remain, but it is no longer connected to anything. It is in the upper right of the photo.
It appears to me that the old station is fenced off from the new station and cannot be used for boarding trains. It also appears that the only high-level platform is the one by the new station. Once an arriving train is emptied, it moves back out onto the main line and then into one of the six holding tracks. The reverse must occur in the morning, with a train being brought from a holding track to the station track.
You can see that in the old days the trains stopped at the old station, and then simply moved into a holding track, and the locomotive could be turned. I rode that branch with an engineer-friend, he said that they got paid extra for running a locomotive short-hood front which they had to do on weekends since there was no station crew to run the turntable. LIRR always ran long-hood forward as being safer, thus the extra pay for having to run short-hood front. Now the just have stronger locomotives.
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LOL Elias! But I meant the IMEX Oyster bay station, not the real thing!