The Bulletin FORMER ACTING LIRR PRESIDENT Published by the Electric Railroaders’ RAYMOND KENNY PASSES AWAY Association, Inc
ERA BULLETIN — MAY, 2020 The Bulletin Electric Railroaders’ Association, Incorporated Vol. 63, No. 5 May, 2020 The Bulletin FORMER ACTING LIRR PRESIDENT Published by the Electric Railroaders’ RAYMOND KENNY PASSES AWAY Association, Inc. P. O. Box 3323 Former Acting LIRR President Raymond leading the railroad’s response to the con- Grand Central Station New York, NY 10163 Kenny, a Lindenhurst resident whose child- cerns raised by a Newsday investigation hood fascination with trains led to a railroad- about the dangers of wide gaps between For general inquiries, or Bulletin submissions, ing career that spanned a half-century, died trains and station platforms. contact us at April 18 from complications of COVID-19, his "I was not stressed, because I had a lot of bulletin@erausa. org family said. help. Everybody was pulling the same or on our website at erausa. org/contact His family said Kenny was admitted to weight," Kenny said in 2014 about his time Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center as Acting President. "I really did enjoy the Editorial Staff: about a week earlier with symptoms of the job. I tried to bring the place together." Jeff Erlitz coronavirus, and later tested positive and After Helena Williams was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief was put on a ventilator. Kenny, who most railroad’s 38th president, starting on June 18, Ron Yee recently headed rail operations for NJ Trans- 2007, Kenny took on the position of Senior Tri-State News and it, was 69. Vice President of Operations. Williams, who Commuter Rail Editor In a 2014 interview, Kenny said he became is now a Deputy County Executive in Nas- Alexander Ivanoff interested in the LIRR while riding the train sau, acknowledged leaning heavily on Ken- North American and between his Cedarhurst home and Molloy ny’s experience and wisdom as her “right- World News Editor High School in hand man.” David Ross Queens.
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