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Montauk Train # 7

October 19, 2024 – 2:22 pm

An hour after the dawn An eastbound diesel train Running through Long Island The 8:18 to Montauk Out of Jamaica___ Train’s top speed 60 mph Sometimes 65___ Approaching Babylon Sun creeping into the sky A public park A swimming pool Empty of water and kids Until A winter blizzard buries Long Island___ And the snow […]

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Welcome To the 20th Century – LIRR – MONTAUK

September 5, 2024 – 10:32 am

Tuesday afternoon the 2:45 PM train from Montauk to Jamaica was late. The EMD DE30AC locomotive crawls into the station of the dual standard gauge tracks stopping on Gate 1, as it does every day, although rarely on time. The locomotive was built between 1997–1999 by Electro-Motive Division in the Super Steel Plant in Schenectady, […]

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