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............................................................................................................................................................................... Andes & Delhi     Andes & Middletown     Cairo     Canajoharie & Catskill    Catskill Mountain     Catskill & Tannersville     Delaware & Eastern      Delaware & Northern   Delaware & Otsego     Delaware Valley & Kingston     Delhi & Middletown     Ellenville & Kingston Hancock & East Branch     Hancock & Wilkes Barre     Hobart Branch Kaaterskill     NEW YORK TRANSPORTATION    MEMORABILIA Kingston & Lake Katrine Kingston & Rondout (streetcar) Kingston & Rondout Valley New York, Kingston & Syracuse . Northern Catskill Mountain Region Railroad Memorabilia - Erie Railroad L1 Class Locomotives New York City Transit Student Passes - Idlewild Airport / IDL Baggage Destination Tags from the collection of PHILIP M. GOLDSTEIN revised: FRIDAY,  18 JANUARY 2013 - 00:00 IDL Destination Tags added and rescanned 1/18/2013 Idlewild Airport Baggage Destination Tags U&D Ticket Books, Excess Baggage book, D&E Train Sheet, D&N Car Mover photos added 1/16/2013 Official Forms & Documents Station / ROW Equipment Erie L1 moved to own page 12/31/2012 Erie Railroad L1 - 0-8-8-0 Builders info of Amtrak #16000 & GCT #001 added, paged moved to main website 12/28/2012 Double Ended Wreckers of New York Area Nice photos of my scratchbuilt Erie L1 added 05/05/2011 Erie Railroad L1 - 0-8-8-0 First train on the Delaware & Eastern Railroad October 28, 1905 E.P. Baumgardner collection

Hello & Welcome!

My name is Philip M. Goldstein,
and this webpage showcases my interests in collecting railroad emphera, exonumia and memorabilia from the following topics:

Railroads operating in the Northern Catskills Region of New York:

I primarily collect all types of memorabilia from the following Railroads that operated in
Delaware, Ulster, Greene & Schoharie Counties of New York State, i.e.:

§ = As the WEST SHORE RAILROAD (New York Central) connected with the Ulster & Delaware at Kingston, NY;
and the NEW YORK, ONTARIO & WESTERN connected with the Delaware & Eastern / Delaware & Northern
at East Branch, NY; and the Ulster & Delaware in Kingston, NY:
I also collect those items from the West Shore and NYO&W when also marked with a railroad from above..

As a result of this collecting, I have begun updating old data, and collating new data pertaining to the information of those railroads listed above.
This data, which includes but not limited to locomotive rosters, administration personnel, dates of incorporation, abandonment, etc; may be viewed here:

Northern Catskills Railroad Information & Data

Memorabilia of Northern Catskills Railroading
Collection Showcase

Please click on the link to view items for the topic listed.
Duplicate items are not shown unless differences or significant history is evident.
These pages are updated individually as warranted. Please check back frequently.

Too big to scan, or not yet photographed, my collection also contains the following:

Eventually, all the material in my collection will be photographed or scanned and shown here.

New York City Subway & Surface
Transportation Companies - Student / School Passes

   Now, after the present day New York City Transit Authority absorbed the Brooklyn passenger railroads (mentioned below), and likewise the other individually owned and operated transportation companies, I find that these items have a place in my collection as well.

   There were dozens of competing transportation companies in the City of New York before the formation of the present Transit Authority. While I began purchasing all items from the various Transportation Companies of New York City, I realized I would need to seriously limit my scope of collecting, due to both limited financial resources and limited space in which to store. 

   Of all the items, a particularly favorite topic of mine are the school / student passes of the New York City Transit Authority. As a former student of the NYC Board of Education myself, I have many fond memories of these passes. So, I chose an item I remember fondly from my student days: the "Bus Pass"!

   In short; I collect tickets, tokens, coupons, passes, transfers, metrocards and other fiscal memorabilia  pertaining to student or school fares from these companies. Here is a small sampling of my NYC Transit school pass collection:
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Idlewild "IDL" Airport Baggage Destination Tags

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   About the oddest items I collect and that I am most fondest of, are Baggage Destination Tags that are marked "IDL" for Idlewild Airport, NY.

   Idlewild Airport is now known as John F. Kennedy International Airport. The name change took place to honor the slain president, so this dates all IDL baggage tags to pre-1964.

   "IDL" was the International Air Transport Association's three letter designation for Idlewild Airport.

    My first IDL baggage tag was found hanging from a piece of luggage. I happened to be biking by an apartment building located on the southeast corner of East 16th Street and Avenue T in Brooklyn enroute to my local coin shop, when I encountered a huge pile of luggage and steamer trunks set by the curb outside the apartment house for sanitation department removal. If my estimation is correct, management / janitorial was cleaning out the basement storage area of all the abandoned property that accumulated over the decades.

   One tag in particular happened to catch my eye, which swirling in the breeze: Trans World Airlines (TWA). I cut it off and brought it home, where some hours later, I showed my father. He smiles and says, "follow me". We head to our basement, where he roots around under some boxes and pulls out his old Army issue duffle bag from his service days. What should happen to be attached to the canvas strap handle? Another IDL tag from Eastern Airlines! Well, I put both in my miscellaneous album.

   Several years pass, and I locate only one other IDL Baggage Tag on eBay, and this one from American Airlines (AA). I email the seller and it turns out, he has two others (United, KLM), which I purchase as well.

   Many more years pass, and I was unable to locate any others. I mentioned this to my friend Paul Strubeck, he looks and wouldn't you know it; there were two were listed on eBay at the same time! (Pan Am & BOAC). And so, I added these to my collection.

   As of January 2013; I have since added the National Airlines handwritten type to my collection as well.  

   So, in short; I collect these very obscure markers of aviation history. 
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Offline Freight Terminal, Industrial & Pier Stations of:
Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Bronx and Manhattan, NY

I am a historian of, and collect all memorabilia from the following "Freight Only" Industrial & Offline Terminal Railroads,
which operated in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Bronx and Manhattan, NY:

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Please visit my websites on these subjects at:

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Military Railroads of the:
New York Metropolitan Area

I am a historian of, and collect all memorabilia and photographs of Military Railroads that operated in
the New York Metropolitan Area:

Please visit my website on this subject at:

Military Railroads of the
New York Metropolitan Area

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