What has become of the Ping Pong car the resided at Exit 51 of the Long Island Expressway?

Bobby,

There's a car at the intersection of 112 and Nesconset Highway in Port Jeff Station. Is that the one you mean?

Sadly being a Long Island native, I avoid the LIE like the plague have no clue what the exit numbers are, and only go by road names...

Jon

You got me on that one, Bobby . . . what's a ping pong car?

Jon,
It's not the MPC54 at the intersection of Rt 112 and Rt 347. The Ping Pong car was at the LIE Exit 51 rest stop, and I think it belonged to Suffolk County.

Tom,
A Ping Pong car is a lightweight P54 passenger coach that the LIRR used in commuter service for many years. Unlike the Pennsy P54, the Ping Pong car had a round roof instead of the traditional raised celestry type roof.

I remember that one! But I don't know where it went. I do know the LIRR ALCo FA cab from the World's Fair has been moved from the daycare in Lynbrook. Is that up at the museum in Oyster Bay now?

Jon

Hows about some pictures of this stuff?

That car was scraped. I know a few guys that went to look at it to see if it was worht saveing and they did not think so. I think it was so bad you could of fallen through the floor. Know I look for that white fence and I know were I am

The second car in this train is like the one that once sat at Exit 51 of the Long Island Expressway. Were any Ping Pong cars saved?

The Knox and Kane RR has a few, but otherwise I think there ,may be one other on on LI worth saveing. A Ping Pong would make a nice addition the RR museum

I thought Steamtown had a couple at one time, but they had not been very well preserved.

Jon

I logged quite a few hours on those venerable "Ping-Pong" coaches travelling from the (underground) LIRR Atlantic Avenue station in Woodhaven to Garden City during my college years at Adelphi during 1960-1961.

The conductors wore gray uniforms.

They were bouncy little suckers. I'd love to get my grubby hands on a set of them in O-gauge, charcoal gray please. One advantage with them is that they were short and would look right at home on any diameter three rail track.