Canoe Place station

Canoe Place was a station stop along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road and first opened as a low cinder platform on the south east side of Shinnecock Canal in 1935. The station was in service for "Fisherman's Special" trains and was closed in 1953.[1][2][3] "Fisherman's Special" trains operated from Penn Station to Montauk and provided an intermediate stop at Canoe Place for boats waiting to take anglers out on Peconic Bay.[4][5] The station was located between Hampton Bays and Suffolk Downs Stations.[6] The hamlet where it was located is now part of Hampton Bays, New York.

Canoe Place
General information
LocationShinnecock Canal
Canoe Place, New York
Coordinates40.887661°N 72.500762°W / 40.887661; -72.500762
Owned byLong Island Rail Road (former)
History
Opened1935[1]
Closed1953[1]
Former services
Preceding station Long Island
Rail Road
Following station
Hampton Bays Montauk Division Suffolk Downs
toward Montauk

References

  1. Morrison, David D. (2021). Long Island Rail Road: Montauk Branch. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 83. ISBN 9781467106900.
  2. "Montauk". Letter to the Editor. The New York Times. November 5, 1989. p. A26. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  3. "Fishing and the LIRR". trainsarefun.com. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  4. Meyer, Robert Jr. (June 12, 1949). "Fisherman's Special to Montauk". The New York Times. p. X19. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
  5. Weigold, Marilyn E. (2015). Peconic Bay: Four Centuries of History on Long Island's North and South Forks. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. p. 147. ISBN 9780815653097.
  6. "LONG ISLAND STATION HISTORY". trainsarefun.com. Archived from the original on 2010-04-08. Retrieved 2010-01-06.


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