Railroad Museum of Long Island

Founded in 1990, the Railroad Museum of Long Island (RMLI) is dedicated to the restoration, preservation and interpretation of the history and artifacts pertaining to the railroads which participated in the growth of Long Island, its communities and industries. The Museum maintains facilities at Greenport, L.I., N.Y. and Riverhead, L.I., N.Y., and serves primarily the communities of Suffolk County. The RMLI holds collections, and historic buildings and structures at two locations. The RMLI “Greenport Museum” is housed in the historic 1892 Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Freight House, a large space where permanent and rotating exhibits of Long Island railroading, past and present are showcased. It also hosts an HO Scale layout depicting Greenport in the mid 1950’s westward to Riverhead in the 2000s.

In addition to an extensive archival collection of rail equipment, art, documents, ephemera, photographs, publication and toy trains, RMLI currently holds two primary audiovisual collections. Each of these collections are “Physical Characteristics” tapes, which document every track that makes up the LIRR and were used as training aids for train conductors. The RMLI has worked with NYU’s Regional Media Legacies project (RML) to transfer the files to an external hard drive to prepare them for reformatting and long-term preservation.

Archives Hours: By Appointment

Address: 416 Griffing Ave, Riverhead, NY 11901

Website: https://rmli.org

Contact: (631) 727-7920

dfisher@rmli.org

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