I'm a 67 year old retired bus operator with NYC Transit. This brings back memories. As a kid in the 60's i used ride the LIRR to Amagansett and spend my summers out there. I remember going to Gosmans Dock to eat. That was the good ole days. Thanks for the memories.

I remember steam on the LIRR and manual gates with a gate operator on each of three at grade crossings in Hicksville. At the end of WWII the engineer pulled in to the Hicksville RR station and blew the whistle until the boiler ran out of steam. Oh, those were the days!

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

2:25 leaves Penn 3:38 Harold interlocking 4:55 sacrilege 19:04 Jamaica 24:00 hillside facility 30:23 west Hempstead branch 31:35 lynbrook 33:10 Rockville center 41:05 massapequa 42:32 sunrise mall 48:03 Babylon 48:58 Babylon yard 53:35 bay shore 1:09:23 patchogue 1:18:48 William Floyd pkwy/mastic shirley/ JJD interlocking 1:29:40 speonk 1:34:32 old siding & wasthampton 1:45:15 Hampton bays 1:47:46 Shinnecock Canal 1:55:51 North Mains Street & Southampton 2:06:03 Bridgehampton 2:13:49 Copper Lane/east Hampton 2:19:00 Amagansett 2:36:32 montauk

Thanks for sharing. Greetings From Argentina!

Love your comments. Looking for another train trip. Not sure I'd do the Cannonball...but the NYP to Montauk is a good possibility.

Good to have you “home,” and teaching us about an important part of railroading.

Good thing you took the Express otherwise it'd be days before you got there

Never thought I would get a full video aboard the cannonball!!!!

Back on the saddle already? That’s true dedication to one’s craft. 😁

Been vacationing in Montauk my whole life. Many of the workers at the hotels were all Irish immigrants or here on work visas. That has since changed and a lot are either Jamaican or what I’ve been seeing now is a lot of Eastern European.

TY for posting. I like all the LIRR stuff.

Thank you so much for the trip

love your vids. thank you

Looks like some fabulous progress on the eastbound Harold bypass! 3:38 and 4:37 those switches in the foreground is brand new moveable frog switch’s

Interesting ride. The Cannonball was originally all parlor cars and passengers paid an extra fare. I've only been on this branch as far as Sayville enroute to Fire Island. Thanks Tim💚👌😊😊😊

Wonderful video! I came down from Boston to New York recently to ride the Metro North and Long Island trains for the first time, and I rode the 6012 to Montauk. I had a good experience as well.

I've always loved trains. Even got my son loving the Choo choos :)

I caught this train as well, but only had time to do East Hoffman, I was there in this video at East Hoffman. Normally I catch 16 and 17 at Lindenhurst, but because I came back from Farmingdale catching 3950 (Aka the new 5050) only had time to do East Hoffman. I probably would not have seen these 2 trains if I stopped home to ride my bike and boy 413 sure put on a stupendous show!

I was on the platform at Lynbrook when you passed by! I was waiting for the westbound Long Beach train.

Great video, I always wanted to ride the cannon ball. I'm 10 years older than you. Moved to Fla many years ago, but grew up in Setauket. I remember the LIRR station in Setauket and the very last year of steam locos on the Port Jeff branch. Remember driving out to Montauk in early 70s and seeing a train sitting at the station with a batch of x FEC coaches. Sold I guess when the FEC stopped passenger service. Also remember seeing the water tower from the newly opened east end of the LIE, at the spur that went into Brookhaven Lab. Have a photo of the steam train you mentioned at Southampton station, in 1967? I still come back to LI to visit family each summer. Will be there later in Aug and will take Amtrak from NYC to Jacksonville. Keep up the good work!

I gotta ride that train oneday I look forward on riding it to 😎

5:05 I was affected by that derailment as well while coming home from Summer Rising in Long Island City. The train I was waiting for was the 5:21pm train from Penn Station to Great Neck and the train arrived at Woodside 5mins late

I feel so safe here❤

My grandfather was a fireman on the BR&W #60!!!

Nice ride from Penn station

You read my mind sir 🚂

1:52:11 I'm pretty sure they also had a temporary platform there when the US Open played at that golf course, i think it's Shinnecock Hills

I used to pick up a guy in Smith Point early in the morning and that WF crossing was the bane of my existence with a train making the stop and traffic piling up. There is a Tate's bakery at the Pine Street crossing. There are days when the area smells likes fresh baked cookies. I am one of those people who want the Centre Moriches station to come back. It would be easier than going to Patchogue or Speonk. Also used to live in Bellport and the town wanted to close that station a few years back, and that was another hard no from the community.

Me and my friends saw your train at Forest Hills yesterday! It was my first time seeing it in person. Glad to see you enjoyed the ride on the Cannonball. We also saw the Flying Yankee too!

04:41 The tunnel there is not an approach to the GCT branch, but the near-complete eastbound reroute instead, allowing Amtrak and future MNR PSA trains to bypass the entire Harold interlocking.

Let’s get some Craft Mac and Cheese with some meatballs, for this amazing special ride on the Cannonball

Cannonball is the best LIRR train design and model so far.

Have you ever tried the Irish Rover Pub across from the Langhorne train station? Pretty good

And Justi an aside I used to live in Amityville moved to Southern California in 1967

Ah traveling on trains is sometimes just so mesmerizing, and you are probably one of the best roommates one can have when one rides the California Zephyr. Is there a New York railfan mailing list/IRC or something that I can join (I live in Stony Brook)?

I was staying just north of Ocean Ave that day when I was visiting family. Was definitely a gloomy one!

The line to Orient Point is called the main line because it was the route to Boston via a ferry across the Sound.

caught this train at babylon and seen at 48:03

Nice video

If you love Irish ☘️ Pubs in Southeastern Connecticut there is Friar Tucks Tavern in Mystic and Landsdowne at the Mohegan Sun Casino. Great Corned Beef and Cabbage 🥬 at both pubs.

I recall Phyllis Diller in The Pruitts of Southampton TV show -- "quite the nicest folk, what the people don't know is that the Pruitts are really broke." Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was born in Southampton, NY July 29, 1929, just a few weeks before the "Crash of '29." Enjoyed this video. Live in Mass. Never been beyond Flushing on Long Island.

Such a fantastic video, I enjoyed watching it! Do you plan on doing the return trip sometime soon?

One question: How come some parts of the electrified LIRR right-of-way are in unfencef? Seems like there would be an electrocution hazard.

I need that locomotive job.

40:42 my home town! I ride the LIRR to the city all the time.

I hop on the 7:01 AM out of Montauk at least once a month! Guessing the charging outlets were working on this one?

I see there building a new tunnel by Harold any idea what it's going to be used for? I was thinking it was going to be for when the New Haven Line starts running into Penn in 2027. Would you mind clarifying that for us?

Do they still have/use the car with a bar area and luggage area? It was years ago but curious if they’ve been modified.

Kinda like riding the Metro North Hudson Line express to Poughkeepsie NY

The stop at Babylon maybe because he had to reset the speed controller due to excessive speed .

Wasn't Kew Gardens the site of a pretty bad derailment back in the day??

I meant to say these days i live in Syosset, literally right off the LIRR station area: one thing that I find astoundingly irritating is, the Huntington line is only good for going out to Port Jefferson. If this line went out all the way from Port Jeff. to Orient Pt. or Greenport, it would be a lot more useful. I could at least get on here, and go out and do north fork trips all the time and leave the car home. But, I can't. And I've heard the Greenport LIRR is kind of useless and slow. And not very frequent.

Does the cannonball now run on the mainline through Hicksville or is it still on the Babylon branch? The MTA map makes it seem like it’s using the mainline now but this video shows differently. Just curious

At 33:21 on the left side of the red brick square building was Henry Hill's house!!!!

It skips those east send stops I guess, to cut out tons of extra time on the trip. I've never taken the train all the way out east, never had any reason to, living on LI and growing up here. We have things called cars..lol! If it stops at every Hamptons stop before Montauk, it's another 100 min. at least, and this ride is already too damned long for me. I drove out last summer later on to Greenport. A very nice town, but, the drive even from Hauppauge took forever, and, I didn't find the shopping etc. in the town to be that great. Maybe the seafood is great, there, I dunno. I didn't feel like staying till 2 am to find out. Sag Harbor, to me, is a lot better, was also out there last summer around June 1st or so. Greenport was like, if you walk through town once, and along the bay, you've seen it all. Montauk looks a bit more exciting, but I've still never been there.

The stop could have been an employee being dropped off at the yard. Great video.

4:20 how do you know that track goes to the yard?

Thanks Tim Do you know if #21 goes via the Central / Main lines going back west?

Caught this train at Lynbrook and seen at 31:42

**318th Like** I just did a run back in August. The trip was worth it.

@ Retired Railfan Horn Guy: Does the LIRR Cannonball have good ridership? Judging by the number of coaches in your train, no fewer than twelve, I'm assuming that the ridership must be healthy. *** I'm curious *** did you ever get to see and/or ride the Cannonball in the days when it consisted entirely of parlor cars - what were those parlor cars like outside and inside (I picture 1920s-era Pullman Heavyweight ex-PRR long-distance rolling stock with their classic 3-axle, 6-wheel trucks)? It's a shame a fleet of this vintage rolling stock wasn't retained for this service. The Cannonball was (and remains) an American Classic Train with a long history. Do you know when the parlor cars were replaced by coaches, and was there much of an objection put up by the public over their discontinuance? Thank you for posting this video - job well done!

Awesome trip!!!! Thanks, all my years of living Downstate and being a ralifan, I never got a chance to ride out to Montauk. Nowadays, I don't dare to go near NYC even though I am originally from there. It's way too dangerous.

sat in the last car.? this is interesting.!!!

Diesel engine??????

What work was performed in all of those now unmanned towers?

What does a "double stop" refer to?

How much did that trip cost you?

Do they have more than one driver on this run?

How look summer schedule? Is possible go montauk in the morning and get back later?

is that a diesel?

Was this filmed in 2022 or 2023?

The German saboteurs weren't "caught"" their leader gave themselves up. They never thought they would be tried for espionage.

Mastic-Shirley, intellectual heart of the world??? You were being grossly sarcastic, right??? I've only been there a handful of times (going to and coming from Smith Point State Park in eastern Fire Island) and it has always struck me as being one of THE dumbest parts of the entire earth!!! 😒😒😒

It's embarrassing that the MTA considers climate change at top item on the list and yet they can't figure out how to run dual mode trains on electric power passed. Harold interlocking

There's also a train that leaves on Thursday at the same time and makes the same stops but it doesn't have as many cars and it's not called the "cannonball" and it's scheduled to arrive at Montauk ten minutes earlier.

for being a cannon ball the train is very slow