Railroad Museum of Long Island
The Railroad Museum of Long Island – also known by its reporting mark, RMLI – is a railway museum based on the North Fork of Long Island, in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It has two locations: the main location in Riverhead, and a satellite location in Greenport, west of the North Ferry to Shelter Island. Both facilities contain active model railroad displays and gift shops.
Riverhead
The Riverhead location of the museum is located in a former Nassau–Suffolk Lumber Company warehouse and showroom at 416 Griffing Avenue, east of the Riverhead LIRR station. It was used as a lumber yard as far back as 1885, and from 1891 to 1969 contained a turntable, water tower, and pump house.The location contains numerous rare passenger and freight cars as well as locomotives in various stages of restoration, some of which are the last of their kind. It also has a 16" gauge Allan Herschell Park Train riding train from the LIRR Pavilion of the [1964 New York (state)|New York World's Fair|1964–65 New York World's Fair].
Located in the Freeman North Exhibit Hall, a renovated warehouse on the property, is the Historic Lionel Layout – an "O" Gauge model train layout donated to the museum by Lionel, LLC in 2009. The 14' by 40' trainset is based on the 1940s Lionel Showroom Layout from New York City. It was constructed by Lionel employees in 1992 and operated at Lionel's facilities in Chesterfield, Michigan through 2008.