Heading to Manhattan
A fter our absurdly long drive to Long Island the previous day, we got up early the following morning to catch a train on the Long Island Railroad. Our hotel was backed-up against the railroad tracks so Lukey spent much of the night watching trains go back and forth past our windows. There was only an alley between our hotel window and the elevated railroad tracks. Most of the Long Island Railroad is electrified but I had forgotten that the far eastern end of Long Island still needs diesel engines to run trains. I hadn't heard a diesel run on the Long Island Railroad in decades so was shocked to hear a diesel pass by the hotel that night. The following day, my dad reminded me that the eastern end of Long Island is not electrified so they need to pull the passenger cars with diesel locomotives. The sound of that diesel passing by our hotel instantly conjured up visions of Long Island Railroad diesels in the 1960s and 1970s though! In the morning, we were all ready to go a li