RMLI Steam Team

Special Message! Tuesday, October 15, 2020

To our Railroad Museum of Long Island Family,

The Board of Trustees of the Railroad Museum of Long Island would like to thank the more than 1500 visitors who ventured out to enjoy the Museum during our abridged 2020 Season, July 18th through October 11th.

We are now in our Fall “Shoulder Season.” Riverhead only will be open on Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM through December 26, 2020. (Our Greenport site is closed until Saturday and Sunday, May 29 and 30, 2021.) Barring any unforeseen change to COVID-19 conditions in the Long Island Region, our Riverhead site will remain open on Saturdays throughout the Holiday Season. NOTE: we will be CLOSED to the public Thanksgiving Weekend, November 28th, to put up our holiday decorations!

There remain some changes to your Museum experience. At Riverhead, in accordance with New York Safety Guidelines for Museums, the interactive GP-38 locomotive simulator will remain closed. In our Visitors Center Gift Shop the Thomas the Tank Engine play station has been removed. Thanks to our friends Alex and Matt, who devised a safe way to activate many of the eighty-three accessories on the Historic Lionel Layout, you may now experience the many moving parts of the Lionel Layout that have been immobile all summer! All in time for the Holidays!

Additionally, we ask that all visitors please wear your safety mask, covering your nose and mouth. Please maintain a physical distance of at least six (6) feet from others who are not in your party. Please observe the markings on the floors of the exhibit halls and visitors center and follow any instructions that may be offered by our docents.

We look forward to welcoming you back to the Railroad Museum of Long Island for the Fall and Holiday Season!

Thank you all,
Don Fisher, President

Railroad Museum of Long Island