Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society - Long Island Chapter

08/23/2026

We will be there, be sure to stop by.

🚨RIVERHEAD RAILROAD FESTIVAL 2026!🚨

🗓️ MARK YOUR CALENDARS for our annual Riverhead Railroad Festival is ALMOST HERE!!! Thanks to the efforts of the Railroad Museum of Long Island and Suffolk County, we are excited to celebrate the 30TH ANNIVERSARY of the opening of our museum in 1996!

🚂 This year’s Railroad Festival will take place:
Saturday-Sunday August 29-30th (10am-4pm)
At the Railroad Museum of Long Island in Riverhead, New York.

STAY TUNED for more exciting details… including a (potential) SPECIAL GUEST that is sure to excite many! There will also be multiple opportunities to support the ongoing Steam Up LIRR #39 project, to see the FIRST EVER Long Island Rail Road steam locomotive RETURN TO OPERATION!

⭐️ YOU can help make this happen TODAY by donating online at: https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ML8TY6YHNF9E6/checkout/2YODEM2XVQBSBAQA5PFOWSNT?src=embed
🚂THANK YOU, we hope to see you there!❤️

08/23/2026

🚂BLOW LIRR #39’s WHISTLE!💨

🚂 We are pleased to announce a SPECIAL “ONCE IN A LIFETIME” FUNDRAISER, to help raise much needed funds for the Steam Up LIRR #39 project! This coming Labor Day Weekend (Sept 5-6th) at the Williams Grove Historic Steam Engine Association, YOU CAN BLOW Long Island Rail Road #39’s Pennsy 3-Chime WHISTLE! Thanks to our friends at the Williams Grove Railroad, LIRR #39’s whistle will be installed on their PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD #643 for the duration of that weekend.

🚨HERE’S THE EXCITING PART!🚨
For a donation of $5 to the Steam Up LIRR #39 project, YOU will be invited UP INTO THE CAB of the ONLY OPERATIONAL Pennsylvania Railroad steam locomotive; and be allowed to BLOW THE WHISTLE (during water stops, and between trips when possible). This is YOUR chance to not only be in the cab of the PRR #643, but to sound the whistle of LIRR #39 (an opportunity we cannot promise will be available again anytime soon)! So MARK YOUR CALENDARS, and drive on out to the Williams Grove Historic Steam Engine Association, to take place in not just this EXCITING opportunity, but to see EVERYTHING the WGHSEA has to offer for their Fall Steam Show!

🚂 We will be on site at the Williams Grove Railroad September 3rd - 6th (with the WHISTLE EVENT taking place on Sat-Sun 5-6th) and will also have MULTIPLE FUNDRAISERS going on during our stay (as well as an assortment of LIRR #39 Merchandise) down by the NEWLY REFURBISHED railroad station. So please be sure to plan on being there to partake in the event; AND as always please consider SUPPORTING THE PROJECT at:
https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ML8TY6YHNF9E6/checkout/2YODEM2XVQBSBAQA5PFOWSNT?src=embed
🚂THANK YOU!!!❤️

🚂 We are VERY GRATEFUL to our good friends at the Williams Grove Railroad, for their support for Long Island Rail Road #39 and her FULL OPERATIONAL RESTORATION! If you have never been out to see the Pennsylvania Railroad #643 you truly are missing out, and we 100% recommend giving them a visit (not just for our event this Labor Day Weekend, but for ANY of their events)!

08/23/2026

08/23/2026

01/27/2026

A great show even though sales don’t make us break even due to Sunday’s bad weather. A new venue in the Better Living Center did help us attract more visitors coming to the table, and we did attract additional folks for membership.
Here, my wife Shari, Myself Standing (Neil Feldman, Treasurer and Membership Chairman), and President Joe Costa were in attendance for the show.

01/07/2026

Hello All,

As Joe noted, I was the one who discovered that we were placed in a prime location for the Amherst Model Hobby Show the weekend of Saturday, January 24th, and Sunday, January 25th as the Better Living Center is perhaps the busiest out of all the buildings where this show is located at the Eastern States Exposition Center in West Springfield, Massachusetts. If you do go there, please stop by to see us. So far, Joe and myself (Neil) will be staffing the table both days. We look forward to meeting up with those of you who come by to visit, Thank You!

12/22/2025

12/08/2025

Hello All,

Looks like Santa brought us our gift early this year and a really good one. For the 2026 Amherst Hobby Show, we will be set up in the Better Living Center.  This is very exciting not only for me, but the chapter itself. We look forward to seeing everybody there including R. Duck Locomotive Works, Trainland, Rapido Trains, New England Rail Uniforms, Chris LaRose Hats and many others.

See y’all in January!!!