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The Maple Grove Long Island Railroad Station.

THE MAPLE GROVE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD STATION


"In 1897, I was a locomotive fireman on the L.I.R.R. and at that time the main line of the road between Jamaica and Long Island City was a single track road ... located about 150 or 200 ft. to the east of the present tracks which pass through ... Kew Gardens. A flag station known as Maple Grove was the only station between Jamaica and [Elmhurst]. This track was mostly used by freight trains except in commuting hours when some passenger trains ran over it." [John Tooker, Babylon, LI.]
[Excerpted from Letter to THE LONG ISLAND FORUM, Vol 4 (Dec. 1941).]
(Picture courtesy of the Queens Borough Public Library, Long Island Division, Illustrations Collection - Kew Gardens.)