"Freight Train Through Mill Neck?"
During the early morning hours of October 9th, 2021, Long Island Rail Road RFX13 is seen heading east past the old Mill Neck Station on the Oyster Bay Branch with vintage boxcar "SHOP 100" in tow. The boxcar was on it's way to its new home at the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum where it will sit on display for all to see.
SHOP 100 (NH 32006) is a former New Haven Railroad 40ft "PS-1" boxcar built by Pullman Standard in 1944. This freight car ran in revenue service around the country till the 1970s, when it was transfered to the LIRR as a surplus car. The LIRR used the car in work train service, then as a mobile parts storage unit. After sitting at Holban Yard in Queens, NY for many years the car was graciously donated to the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum. The museum plans to repaint the car into its original colors and use it as a storage unit while it sits in their display yard.
