Whitestone Branch

Whitestone Branch
Beechhurst Yacht Club, the site of the former northern terminus of the Whitestone Branch
Overview
Status	Abandoned
Locale	Queens, New York City
Termini	Willets Point (south) Whitestone (north)
Stations	5
Service
Type	Passenger and Freight
Operator(s)	Flushing and North Side Railroad Long Island Rail Road
History
Opened	1869 (1869)
Closed	February 19, 1932 (1932-02-19)
Technical
Number of tracks	1–2
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Electrification	1912[1]
Route map

The Whitestone Branch was a branch of the Long Island Rail Road, running north and east along the left bank of the Flushing River from the Port Washington Branch near the modern Willets Point/Flushing sections of Queens, New York. It crossed the river on one of the three bridges that were later torn down for the Van Wyck Expressway, then ran north along Flushing Bay and east along the East River to Whitestone.