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Montauk Train # 7

An hour after the Dawn An eastbound diesel train The 8:18 to Montauk Top speed 60 mph Fifteen minutes Out of Jamaica___ Sun climbs the sky Approaching Babylon A swimming pool Empty Until A winter blizzard buries Long Island___ And the snow melts Fills the pool To the brim___ Two months Ahead Of today A […]

Welcome To the 20th Century – LIRR – MONTAUK

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, […]