Photograph from The Queens Borough Public Library, Long Island Division, Frederick J. Weber Collection. For a view from the opposite perspective, click here. Because they were taken 17 years apart, some landmarks visible in the linked photograph do not appear in this one.

This 1933 photograph was taken 17 years before the crash. On the night of November 22, 1950, the Hempstead train was stalled, and its last car stood at about this point on the inboard, eastbound track to the left. When he alighted from the train's rear car, the Hempstead train's brakeman would have displayed his red warning lantern in this direction - the direction from which the train had just come. The Lefferts Boulevard overpass is clearly visible in the background, and beyond that (obscured from view) was the Kew Gardens Long Island Railroad Station. Click here to return to the main page.