Commuters arriving and departing for Roslyn's Long Island Rail Road Station can now see a new addition to the historic station waiting room: A genuine 1890s "station jewel" potbelly stove.

Friends of Locomotive 35 and the Roslyn Preservation Corporation have worked with the Long Island Rail Road to enhance the historic character of Roslyn's handsome 1887 brick station building.

A member of the Friends of Locomotive 35, the group now restoring the last LIRR steam locomotive in Oyster Bay, discovered the stove. Volunteers for the Friends Group, sandblasted the old cast iron stove, painted it and then installed it in the Roslyn Station.

Stoves like the "Station Jewel" were common and a necessary part of station waiting rooms in the late 19th century. Roslyn's station waiting room surely had a similar stove when it was orignally built as evidenced by the slender chimney seen in early photographs of the building.

The stove was donated to the Roslyn Preservation Corporation by the Friends of Locomotive 35 and has been placed on long-term loan to the Long Island Rail Road for display in the Roslyn Station waiting room.