WESTBURY
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1ST DEPOT APPEARS ON TT OF 9/3/1838, UTILIZING THE TRACKSIDE
J. P. KELSEY'S BRANCH STORE (G. Brainerd photographic provenance.)
2ND DEPOT BUILT: APR-JUNE/1883
3RD DEPOT BUILT: 1914, GREATLY REMODELED: 1972. PER RAY MUNTZ, ANOTHER REMODELING BEGAN IN APRIL, 2001 BUT POSSIBLY DUE TO
A DISCOVERED STRUCTURAL DEFECT, UPPER PORTION OF EXISTING
BLDG. WAS LEVELED AND NEW DEPOT CONSTRUCTED ATOP LOWER LEVEL OF OLD DEPOT (Ray Muntz photographic provenance.)
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![](Westbury-station_Kelsey-store_1878_(Brainerd-Morrison).jpg)
Westbury Station - View W Kelsey's Store on the
NW corner Post Ave. 1878
(Brainerd-Morrison)
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![1837_Brooklyn-Advance_LIRR-notice_Muntz.jpg (132339 bytes)](1837_Brooklyn-Advance_LIRR-notice_Muntz_small.jpg)
1837 Brooklyn Advance: LIRR notice as of
March 1st, 1837 Brooklyn to Hicksville rail service in effect. Archive:
Ray Muntz
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![Westbury_Post-Ave_ViewS_1890_Muntz.jpg (53525 bytes)](Westbury_Post-Ave_ViewS_1890_Muntz_small.jpg)
Looking south along Post Avenue towards the railroad crossing in 1890. The platform for the 1883 depot is visible to the left of the crossing diamond sign. A partially remodeled Kelsey's Store still stands trackside.
Archive:
Ray Muntz
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![Emery_Westbury_MP21-22_pre-1914.jpg (175343 bytes)](Emery_Westbury_MP21-22_pre-1914_small.jpg)
Emery map - Westbury MP21-22 pre-1914 Grade
Elimination
Archive: Dave Keller
![Westbury-Station_1903.jpg (84740 bytes)](Westbury-Station_1903_small.jpg)
Westbury Station 1903
Archive: Dave Morrison
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![Fourniers-Locomobile-Smashed_NY-Times_10-31-1901.jpg (563380 bytes)](Fourniers-Locomobile-Smashed_NY-Times_10-31-1901_small.jpg)
Fournier's Locomobile Smashed NY Times 10/31/1901
Archive: Ray Muntz
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![Westbury-1901 HenriFournier HalFullerton.jpg (55106 bytes)](Westbury-1901_HenriFournier___HalFullerton_small.jpg)
Westbury - Artist Peter Helck interpretation of driver Henri Fournier
1901 accident Archive: Ray Muntz
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Westbury crossing accident -10/30/1901
Archive:
Ray Muntz
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![Westbury-Crossing_NY-Times_8-08-1906.jpg (140114 bytes)](Westbury-Crossing_NY-Times_8-08-1906_small.jpg)
Westbury Crossing To Go - NY Times
8/08/1906
Archive: Ray Muntz
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Westbury is the first documented site of a train/auto crash - the drawing
(above) is from an old Railroad magazine and the wreck photos are from 1901
(Westbury Historical Society collection). Ray Muntz
Henri Fournier (14 April 1871 – 18 December 1919) was a French racing driver. Born in 1871 in Le Mans, Fournier began his career on motorcycles and tricycles. In 1901 he came to the Mors racing team and was the most successful driver of this year, as he won both the Paris–Bordeaux and Paris–Berlin races Wikipedia
THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD AND IT’S PROMOTION OF LONG ISLAND, 1900-1930 by Sean Kass
The railroad organized and hosted promotional events. LIRR Special Agent Hal B.
Fullerton, the single most important figure in the railroad’s massive promotional campaign, spent thirty years in the railroad’s Passenger Department “promoting and advertising events, activities, or plans that would bring public attention to the Island’s potential for sport, recreation, business and residential development for both the middle classes and the urban elite.” These events included lectures delivered by Fullerton (1897-1929), the Vanderbilt Cup automobile races (1904-1910), the Mile-A-Minute Murphy Challenge (1899), and experimental farms at Wading River (1905-1910) and Medford (1910-1927)..."
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![Westbury-Station_post-card_1907.jpg (108020 bytes)](Westbury-Station_post-card_1907_small.jpg)
Westbury Station post card 1907
Archive: Dave Morrison
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![Westbury-Station-model_RayMuntz.jpg (96742 bytes)](Westbury-Station-model_RayMuntz_small.jpg)
Westbury Station Model
Model/Photo/Archive: Ray Muntz
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![](Westbury-Station_1907-Morrison_small.jpg)
Westbury Station 1907
Archive: Dave Morrison
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![Westbury-Station_post-card_1914.jpg (139274 bytes)](Westbury-Station_post-card_1914_small.jpg)
Westbury Station colorized post card
1914
Archive: Dave Morrison
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![Westbury_1910_Vanderbilt-Cup.jpg (158307 bytes)](Westbury_1910_Vanderbilt-Cup_small.jpg)
Westbury 10/01/1910 Vanderbilt Cup
Archive: Dave Morrison
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![Westbury-Station_post-card_1915.jpg (146291 bytes)](Westbury-Station_post-card_1915_small.jpg)
Westbury Station colorized post card 1914
Archive: Dave Morrison
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Thee last cup race was held on October 1, 1910 with
the Winner: Harry Grant, USA - Car built by: ALCO
ALCO Automobiles
The company diversified into the automobile business in 1906, producing French Berliet designs under license. Production was located at Alco's Rhode Island Locomotive Works in Providence, Rhode Island. Two years later, the Berliet license was abandoned, and the company began to produce its own designs instead. An Alco racing car won the Vanderbilt Cup in both 1909 and 1910 and competed in the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911, driven on all three occasions by Harry Grant. But, ALCO's automotive venture was unprofitable, and they abandoned automobile manufacture in 1913.[8] The Alco automobile story is notable chiefly as a step in the automotive career of Walter P. Chrysler, who worked as the plant manager. In 1911 he left Alco for Buick in Detroit, Michigan, where he subsequently founded the Chrysler Corporation in 1925.
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WESTBURY - POST-1914 GRADE
ELIMINATION
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![Westbury-Station_post-card_viewNE_c.1918.jpg (118888 bytes)](Westbury-Station_post-card_viewNE_c.1918_small.jpg)
Westbury Station colorized post card View
NE c.1918
Archive: Dave Morrison
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![Westbury-Station_Post-Ave_viewNE_c.1918.jpg (84517 bytes)](Westbury-Station_Post-Ave_viewNE_c.1918_small.jpg)
Westbury Station - View NE c.1918
Archive: Dave Morrison
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![Westbury-Station_post-card_viewW_c.1918.jpg (86535 bytes)](Westbury-Station_post-card_viewW_c.1918_small.jpg)
Westbury Station post card View W c.1918
Archive: Dave Morrison
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![Westbury-Station_post-card_1925.jpg (118482 bytes)](Westbury-Station_post-card_1925_small.jpg)
Westbury Station post card 1925
Archive: Dave Morrison
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![Westbury_c.1918_RayMuntz.jpg (69029 bytes)](Westbury_c.1918_RayMuntz_small.jpg)
Westbury 1926 (Ray Muntz-Dave
Morrison)
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![Westbury-Freight-Yard_viewW_ 1932_RayMuntz.jpg (52504 bytes)](Westbury-Freight-Yard_viewW__1932_RayMuntz_small.jpg)
Westbury Freight Yard View W 1932
Photo/Archive: Ray Muntz
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![Westbury-Station-1930.jpg (72873 bytes)](Westbury-Station-1930_small.jpg)
Westbury Station 1930 Archive: Dave Morrison
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![Westbury1932_Weber.jpg (84904 bytes)](Westbury1932_Weber_small.jpg)
Westbury 1932 (Weber-Morrison)
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![](G5s-36-Train%20WB%20E%20of%20Westbury,%20NY%20-%20c.%201939_Keller_small.jpg)
G5s #36 westbound train - East of Westbury c.1939
Archive: Dave Keller |
![](Westbury-Station_viewE_3021932_Emery-SUNY-Stony-Brook_small.jpg)
Westbury Station view E 3/02/1932
Archive: Emery SUNY-Stony Brook |
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Westbury Station view W 3/02/1932
Archive: Emery SUNY-Stony Brook |
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![](H10s-101-Freight-EB-Westbury-1935_Keller_small.jpg)
H10s #101 eastbound freight Westbury 1935
Archive: Dave Keller |
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G5s #30 eastbound train passing Westbury mail crane
5/05/1935 - Archive: Dave Keller |
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H6sb #311 switching freight Westbury 8/17/1935
Archive: Dave Keller |
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G5s #23 westbound train Westbury 10/31/1936
Archive: Dave Keller |
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G5s #27 eastbound train passing Westbury Express House
3/21/1936 - Archive: Dave Keller |
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H6sb #312 eastbound freight passing Westbury
4/1938 Archive: Dave Keller |
![Westbury-cows_One-Oak-Dairy_1938_Jean Munro-RayMuntz.jpg (42196 bytes)](Westbury-cows_One-Oak-Dairy_1938_Jean_Munro-RayMuntz_small.jpg)
Westbury - One Oak Dairy 1938
(Munro-Muntz)
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![](G5s-31-Train%204425-WB-Ellison%20Ave.%20Overpass-MP21-Signal%20211%20W.%20of%20Westbury,%20NY%20-%2002-06-49%20(Hermanns-Keller)_small.jpg)
G5s #31 Train #4425 westbound Ellison Ave. overpass -Signal #210
west of Westbury 2/06/1949 (Hermanns-Keller) |
Westbury aerial view Hicks Coal Yard
c.1950
Archive: Ray Muntz
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Vincent F. Seyfried's LIRR History (Volume
6, page 178) indicates the LIRR changing the milk train schedule in 1882 -
the farmers went on strike to protest the change - as he wrote: "Westbury
was the largest milk station on the Island" Having grown up in
Westbury I never saw a cow. Jean Munro gave me photos from her 1938 Girl
Scout trip to One Oak dairy! Info: Ray Muntz
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WESTBURY - USA POLO CENTER
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![](Westbury_Polo-Ponies_1934_RayMuntz.jpg)
Westbury - Polo Ponies unloading 1934 Archive: Ray Muntz
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![LIRR143_Hicksville_Horse-Pullman-class-B74b_1947.jpg (102485 bytes)](LIRR143_Hicksville_Horse-Pullman-class-B74b_1947_small.jpg)
LIRR #143 at Hicksville hauling PRR Class-B74b
Horse Pullman 1947 Archive: Dave Keller
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![DD1-340-Tichy Scheme-Pulling Horsecar from Brandywine Stables-Near Jamaica - 1950-Keller.jpg (82337 bytes)](DD1-340-Tichy_Scheme-Pulling_Horsecar_from_Brandywine_Stables-Near_Jamaica_-_1950-Keller_small.jpg)
DD1 #340 in Tichy color scheme is pulling a single Brandywine Stables horse car eastbound near Jamaica in 1950, probably headed for Belmont Park. (Dave Keller archive)
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In the heyday of American polo during the early 20th century, Nassau County was its undisputed epicenter.
From the 1920's to the 40's, when the gilded clans of the Gold Coast, the
Whitney's and the Guests, the Hitchcock's and the Phippse's, played matches in their own lavish backyards, when the Duchess of Windsor or the Maharajah of Jaipur might pop in to present a sterling silver loving cup or knock the ball around for a chukker or two on one of the Island's 50 polo fields.
The sport claimed as many as 30 polo grounds -- each the size of nine football fields -- spread among lavish estates and vast open space. Upward of 30,000 people traveled by train from New York City for weekend matches featuring players almost as well known as Babe Ruth.
"People probably can't believe it today, but polo games, then, were like baseball or college football games," said Dennis Amato, a Port Washington polo historian.
A century later, one of the last remnants of that era operates out of a barn in Old Westbury near one of the few remaining playing fields. Meadowbrook Polo Club, the oldest in the United States, began its 130th season last weekend.
Info: Newsday - Paul Larocco - May 23, 2011
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![](Westbury-Coal-Yard-delivery-truck-1922_small.jpg)
Westbury Coal Yard delivery truck 1922
![](Hicks-Fuel_ink-blotter_1940s_small.jpg)
Hicks-Westbury Fuel ink blotter c.1940's. Located
at approx. MP21.5 on
the SW corner of the LIRR
and Post Ave., Westbury indicated as its previous name
of Westbury Coal Co. Emery map MP21-22 at right. |
![Emery_Westbury_MP21-22_5-1958.jpg (358933 bytes)](Emery_Westbury_MP21-22_5-1958_small.jpg)
Emery maps -Westbury MP21-22, MP22-33
5/1958
Archive: Dave Keller
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![Westbury-Station_ 1932.jpg (99958 bytes)](Westbury-Station__1932_small.jpg)
Westbury Station 1932 Archive:
Dave Morrison
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![Station-Westbury with horsecar for Roosevelt Raceway.jpg (25151 bytes)](Station-Westbury_with_horsecar_for_Roosevelt_Raceway_small.jpg)
Westbury Station with horse car for Roosevelt Raceway at left. Horse
cars used this location for loading/unloading of horses for the racetrack;
c.1950.
Archive: Dave Keller
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![Westbury_1947_Votava.jpg (107913 bytes)](Westbury_1947_Votava_small.jpg)
Westbury 1947 (Votava-Morrison)
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![Westbury_3-26-1954_Norman-Kohl.jpg (134709 bytes)](Westbury_3-26-1954_Norman-Kohl_small.jpg)
Westbury 3/26/1954 Photo: Norman Kohl
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Photo (above center) from the School Street crossing, looking west. The train is on the eastbound (#2) track. South of that track is the south siding with an additional siding branching off the south siding to service the white building which sign reads "Westbury Plant." The circuit box at the far left would be to operate the gates and flashing lights at the crossing. And . . if you look VERY CLOSELY to the left of the rear of the train, between the two rows of telephone poles, all the way in the distance, you can make out the express house at the Westbury station (note #3 on Emery's map).
Info: Dave Keller
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![Westbury-Station_1952.jpg (76731 bytes)](Westbury-Station_1952_small.jpg)
Westbury Station 1952
Archive: Dave Morrison
The depot was two stories: Ground level at
street level and track level was elevated on an embankment. The
depot was heavily remodeled over the past years. You'll see in my 1955
image there were no short covered platforms. Info: Dave Keller
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![Station-Westbury-Express House-View W-06-24-55 (Faxon-Keller).jpg (67391 bytes)](Station-Westbury-Express_House-View_W-06-24-55_Faxon-Keller_small.jpg)
Westbury station and express house
looking west from the
rear of a moving eastbound train on June 24, 1955
(William V. Faxon, Jr. photo, Dave Keller archive)
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![Westbury_RS3_1551_9-6-59.jpg (70933 bytes)](Westbury_RS3_1551_9-6-59_small.jpg)
Westbury - RS3 #1551 east of Westbury 9/06/1959
Archive: Dave Morrison
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![LIRR-map-Westbury-page53-1966.jpg (82291 bytes)](LIRR-map-Westbury-page53-1966_small.jpg)
LIRR map - Westbury - 1966 page 53
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![Westbury-Station_1968_RayMuntz.jpg (86746 bytes)](Westbury-Station_1968_RayMuntz_small.jpg)
Westbury Station 1968 Photo/Archive: Ray
Muntz
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![LIRR-map-Westbury-page39-1986.jpg (43054 bytes)](LIRR-map-Westbury-page39-1986_small.jpg)
LIRR map - Westbury - 1986 page 39
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![](GP38-2-268_Train-4006_EB-Ellison-Avenue-Westbury_4021978_JeffErlitz_small.jpg)
GP38-2 268 leads train #4006 (Jamaica-Montauk) eastbound under the Ellison
Avenue overgrade bridge in Westbury on Sunday, April, 2, 1978.
Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz
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WESTBURY STATION RENOVATION -
2001
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Westbury Station Renovation 4/2001 Photos/Archive: Ray Muntz
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![Westbury-Station_night-snow-modified_12-2001_RayMuntz.jpg (81565 bytes)](Westbury-Station_night-snow-modified_12-2001_RayMuntz_small.jpg)
Westbury Station - Night snow
fall 12/2001 Photo: Ray Muntz
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![Westbury-Station_10-2001_RayMuntz.jpg (91160 bytes)](Westbury-Station_10-2001_RayMuntz_small.jpg)
Westbury Station 10/2001
Photo/Archive: Ray Muntz
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![Westbury-Station_10-2000_rebuilt-1972_RayMuntz.jpg (105676 bytes)](Westbury-Station_10-2000_rebuilt-1972_RayMuntz_small.jpg)
Westbury Station 10/2001 Photo/Archive: Ray Muntz
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![Westbury-Station_viewS_10-2001_RayMuntz.jpg (88207 bytes)](Westbury-Station_viewS_10-2001_RayMuntz_small.jpg)
Westbury Station 10/2001 Photo/Archive: Ray Muntz
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![Westbury-Station_viewN_10-2001_RayMuntz.jpg (89240 bytes)](Westbury-Station_viewN_10-2001_RayMuntz_small.jpg)
Westbury Station 10/2001 Photo/Archive: Ray Muntz
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![Westbury-Station-interior_10-2001_RayMuntz.jpg (99674 bytes)](Westbury-Station-interior_10-2001_RayMuntz_small.jpg)
Westbury Station interior 10/2001
Photo/Archive: Ray Muntz
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![Station-Westbury, NY (View S) - 06-22-09 (Dan TD- Google Images).JPG (105065 bytes)](Station-Westbury_NY_View_S_-_06-22-09_Dan_TD-_Google_Images_small.JPG)
Westbury Station - View S 6/22/2009
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![](Westbury-Station_viewS_2192023_Erlitz_small.jpg)
Westbury Station - View S 2/19/2023
Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz |
![Station-Westbury, NY (View NE) - 2013 (Jeremiah Cox-Google Images).jpg (95100 bytes)](Station-Westbury_NY_View_NE_-_2013_Jeremiah_Cox-Google_Images_small.jpg)
Westbury Station View NE 2013 Photo: Jeremiah Cox
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![](Westbury-aerial_1920_Westbury-Historical-Society_small.jpg)
Westbury aerial view N - 1920
Archive: Westbury Historical Society |
Westbury aerial view N - 7/08/2019 Newsday |
![](MTA-Westbury-Parking_Newsday_9212020_small.jpg)
MTA Westbury Parking - Newsday 9/21/2020 |
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![](Westbury-Station_4-2023_The%20LIRR%20Today_small.jpg)
Westbury Station - View S of the overpass at the
east end of the station. 4/2023 Photo: The LIRR Today |
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