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Installing a Railroad Viaduct

Collection: This image is from the Long Island Daily Press Photograph Morgue Collection and is depicted in a print and digital image.; Image is part of the Long Island Daily Press Photograph Morgue Collection
Date: December 29, 1956; 1956-12-29 Material: gelatin silver prints Dimension: 7 x 9 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)
Creator: Long Island Daily Press Identifier: aql:22944 ldp-001207 ldp-001207.tif

Description: A bridge is installed to carry the Long Island Rail Road over Brookside Avenue in Freeport, as part of the Baldwin-Freeport grade crossing elimination project, scheduled to be completed the next year. In the foreground are temporary tracks being used by the railroad while the work is in progress. The large brick structure in the background left is the Milburn Pumping Station, also known as the Brooklyn Waterworks.

Collection : aql:16495

Creator : Long Island Daily Press

Date : December 29, 1956; 1956-12-29

Summary/Description : A bridge is installed to carry the Long Island Rail Road over Brookside Avenue in Freeport, as part of the Baldwin-Freeport grade crossing elimination project, scheduled to be completed the next year. In the foreground are temporary tracks being used by the railroad while the work is in progress. The large brick structure in the background left is the Milburn Pumping Station, also known as the Brooklyn Waterworks.

Subject : Long Island Rail Road; Construction projects; Viaducts; Railroad construction workers; Pumping stations; Cranes, derricks, etc.

Rights : Copyright holder unknown

Coverage : Brookside Avenue at Sunrise Highway, Freeport, NY Nassau County (N.Y.) Freeport (N.Y.)

Type : black and white print; digital image

Format : gelatin silver prints; 7 x 9 inches (print); 400 ppi (digital image)

Identifier : aql:22944 ldp-001207 ldp-001207.tif

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Subject:
Long Island Rail Road; Construction projects; Viaducts; Railroad construction workers; Pumping stations; Cranes, derricks, etc.
Rights Notice
Copyright holder unknown


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