12.16.2019 Community All aboard! Santa stops by railroad museum: Photos The Railroad Museum of Long Island was decked out for the holidays this weekend for festive afternoon as Santa paid a visit to the children in attendance.
12.22.2016 Community Miniature railroad appears back on track elsewhere in Greenport Four years ago, Frank Field decided to stop running the Peconic County Miniature Rail Road on tracks he had built adjacent to his Greenport home. Before that, the retired...
02.28.2016 Community Community Leader of the Year helps keep a museum going: Video On Thursday, we presented Don Fisher, president of the Railroad Museum of Long Island, with our Community Leader of the Year award at a ceremony at Martha Clara Vineyards. This is the video...
01.07.2016 Community 2015 Community Leader of the Year: Don Fisher The Railroad Museum of Long Island simply wouldn’t be as vibrant as it is today had Don Fisher never come along.
03.29.2013 News Reconstruction deal would see Engine 39 shipped to Pennsylvania After sitting in Riverhead for 33 years, waiting to be restored, Engine 39, a steam engine built in 1929 and operated by the Long Island Rail Road through 1955,...
08.25.2012 News Photos: Railroad Museum hosts annual Family Fun Day festival The 13th annual Riverhead Railroad Festival ‘Family Fun Days’ was held on museum grounds at Griffing Avenue across from Riverhead’s LIRR Station Saturday. See more photos at the Riverhead...
06.30.2012 News Museum to launch fundraising campaign for Engine 39 Back in the late 1970s, a group of railroad enthusiasts began the dream of bringing an old steam locomotive from Stony Brook to Riverhead so they could restore it,...
11.29.2011 News Video: Railroad Museum to host Holiday Open House The Railroad Museum of Long Island in Greenport will display its newest exhibit featuring 14 original photos of steam engines taken in the late 1880s at its annual Holiday...
04.03.2011 News Famous model train exhibit to debut at LI Railroad Museum A historic Lionel model train exhibit will be unveiled April 9 at the Railroad Museum of Long Island’s Riverhead site. The 7,000-pound train layout was on display for nearly...
