(rshsdepot) Oyster Bay, NY: LIRR donates historic train station to town

[Jim Dent <jdent1_@_optonline.net>]

Subject: LIRR donates historic train station to town
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 07:57:36 -0800 (PST)
From: oysterbay35_@_verizon.net

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LIRR donates historic train station to town
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BY BILL BLEYER
STAFF WRITER

Long Island Rail Road president James Dermody Friday donated the 1889 
Oyster Bay station to the town as part of the process of creating a 
railroad museum by 2008.

As the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum, the depot -- owned by the LIRR since 
it was built -- will be restored to the way it looked in 1902 when it 
was renovated when local resident Theodore Roosevelt was president. The 
Town of Oyster Bay now owns the building and immediate surroundings, but 
it will be managed by the restoration committee of the Oyster Bay 
Historical Society.

David Morrison of Plainview, the committee chairman, said white paint 
was stripped from the exterior bricks, wood trim was restored and 
painted the original Essex green, and copper leaders and gutters 
installed. Inside, they removed the partitions and second floor that 
were added in later years.

"We want to restore it to the beautiful cathedral ceiling appearance it 
once had," Morrison said. The museum will encompass the depot, the 
turntable that reversed steam locomotives and Locomotive No. 35, the 
LIRR steam engine that is slowly being restored by the same volunteers 
who have been working on the station.

Copyright (c) 2005, Newsday, Inc.

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This article originally appeared at:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-listat0219,0,661303.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines 


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