Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Lirr Central Branch

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  Apr 01 2023

  Greg O’s Garage: Plans and aerials that document the removal of the Motor Parkway railroad bridges in Nassau County

  Pat Babor has forwarded 1982 MTA plans to remove two Motor Parkway railroad bridges in Mineola and East Williston/Williston Park.

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  Feb 19 2020

  Kleiner’s Korner: Documentation of the Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges in Nassau County (#43-#52)

  The final part of the Nassau County Motor Parkway Bridge series is presented here from the Massapequa-Hicksville Motor Parkway Bridge (#43) to the The Old Bethpage Motor Parkway Bridge (#52).

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  Jul 23 2018

  Update2:Mystery Foto #29 Solved:A 1936 Aerial of Mitchel Field,Roosevelt Raceway & the Motor Parkway

  Author Richard Panchyk set a VanderbiltCupRaces.com record with back-to-back Mystery Foto challenges.

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  Jun 25 2018

  Mystery Sunday Foto #25 Solved:  A 1954 Aerial View of “Salisbury Park” in East Meadow

  Author Richard Panchyk challenged you to solve this weekend's Motor Parkway aerial.

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  Jul 25 2017

  Malverne Treasure #1: A Letter from William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.

  Over 150 Long Island Motor Parkway surveys, maps, blueprints and drawings discovered by Roy Knoernschild in a Malverne basement are being categorized, repaired and scanned. During this process, another gem was discovered-a signed 1911 letter from William K. Vanderbilt Jr. sent to an assistant engineer for the Long Island Motor…

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  Sep 10 2016

  Femenias’ Findings: Anatomy of an Amazing 1938 Aerial (Garden City to East Meadow)

  My favorite Nassau County aerial from the U.S. Department of Agriculture 1938 series highlighted the area from Garden City to East Meadow.

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  Sep 14 2013

  Then & Now: The Motor Parkway Railroad Station on the “Hempstead Extension (Spur)” Part I

  Dick Makse has forwarded this photo of a Long Island Railroad cash fare receipt dated from 1915 to 1916.

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  Aug 11 2011

  Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series:#4 The Bridge over the Queens Central Rail Road Right-of-Way

  A total of 60 Motor Parkway bridges were built from 1908 to 1926 ...a pioneering concept to eliminate grade crossings for an automobile road. There are four types of Motor Parkway bridges; over crossroads (parkway bridges), under crossroads (highway bridges), over railroad tracks (railroad bridge) and, as part of right-of-way…