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Title: |
Broad view |
Description: |
There was a spot near Yaphank station where you could get an across the field shot of the LIRR. It is here that we see RF 62s power, the usual pair of C 420s. I caught up to him here after chasing some commuter trains and RF 65 near Farmingdale. |
Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:23:38 AM |
Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) |
Views: |
448 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Past the station |
Description: |
The east end of Riverhead station as RF 62s power passes |
Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:16:55 AM |
Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) |
Views: |
610 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Working the team track |
Description: |
RF 63 works the team track at Riverhead as its train sits on the lead |
Photo Date: |
3/10/1987 Upload Date: 6/20/2011 2:06:42 AM |
Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Yard,Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
Views: |
573 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RF 62 |
Description: |
RF 62 behind the typical pair of C 420s passes the station site of Calverton, just west of Riverhead, on the Main Line. |
Photo Date: |
3/16/1987 Upload Date: 11/12/2011 10:56:33 PM |
Location: |
Calverton, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
Views: |
438 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Working the team track |
Description: |
Once a common sight in many towns, the team track had become a rare feature. Riverhead still had one(as did Queens Village, though I dont recall seeing any cars spotted there in the 80s), here being switched by RF 62s C 420s. The crews on this train did not get radios, so hand signals were the standard way for the trainmen to communicate. It was a real lesson in old style railroading. |
Photo Date: |
3/19/1987 Upload Date: 4/18/2015 3:52:51 AM |
Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
Views: |
364 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RF 63 and a relic |
Description: |
RF 63#passes the Riverhead station and restoration project G 5 39 as it heads down to work the team track. |
Photo Date: |
3/19/1987 Upload Date: 4/21/2015 3:44:13 AM |
Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Steam,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 39(4-6-2) |
Views: |
661 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Farm like scene |
Description: |
The east end was once farm land, but by the late 80s, much of it had been sold off for development as real estate values became greater than the agricultural value. Manorville seemed to have escaped that trend even in the late 80s, as this scene of a red house in a rural setting shows. RF 63 rolls past behind the usual pair of C 420s. |
Photo Date: |
3/19/1987 Upload Date: 4/18/2015 3:56:55 AM |
Location: |
Manorville, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
Views: |
239 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Potatoes!! |
Description: |
RF 63 gets ready to go west as it sits in front of what was once one of LIRRs prime traffic sources-the Suffolk Potato Exchange. The LIRR at the end of WW II would ship 110 car produce blocks from Suffolk County, one of Americas main potato producers. Now it all goes by truck, whats left of it. |
Photo Date: |
3/19/1987 Upload Date: 4/18/2015 4:05:06 AM |
Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
Views: |
299 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
View from the bridge |
Description: |
In this case, William Floyd Parkway. RF 63 rolls under a local road heading back to Pine Aire. |
Photo Date: |
3/19/1987 Upload Date: 4/18/2015 4:09:18 AM |
Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
Views: |
337 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Old station |
Description: |
Not quite yet, but it will be soon. The electrification project is progressing, as evidenced by the new signal bridge in the foreground. RF 63 passes the station which will be replaced once the new facility is built. It will open next January. |
Photo Date: |
4/20/1987 Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:33:19 AM |
Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
Views: |
254 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RF 63 with two cabooses |
Description: |
RF 63 is seen at Yaphank with a pair of bay window cabin cars. |
Photo Date: |
4/20/1987 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 7:52:02 PM |
Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420) |
Views: |
441 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Double your fun |
Description: |
RF 63 has a pair of bay window cabooses, giving the brakeman lining the switch at far left a choice of accommodations. No parlor cars for the crew, though!! |
Photo Date: |
4/20/1987 Upload Date: 4/23/2015 1:24:44 AM |
Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420) |
Views: |
270 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
RF 62 |
Description: |
One of the more obscure places on the Island is Calverton. Location of a National Cemetery, it is a backwater on the LIRR. RF 62 passes en route to Riverhead. |
Photo Date: |
11/22/1987 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:25:06 PM |
Location: |
Calverton, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) |
Views: |
387 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RF 57 |
Description: |
A short RF 57 works past Bellerose as it makes its way from Hicksville into Fresh Pond on a Sunday afternoon. |
Photo Date: |
11/22/1987 Upload Date: 6/17/2015 2:34:23 AM |
Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 154(MP15AC) |
Views: |
580 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Tucked in |
Description: |
RF 57s caboose is tucked in behind the power as it passes the station. |
Photo Date: |
11/22/1987 Upload Date: 6/17/2015 2:40:34 AM |
Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 154(MP15AC) |
Views: |
617 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
LIRR 225 |
Description: |
Westbound passenger train on the Port Jefferson branch arrives in Kings Park. Date approximate. |
Photo Date: |
1/1/1972 Upload Date: 12/7/2007 8:42:38 PM |
Location: |
Kings Park, NY |
Author: |
Mike Woodruff |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
954 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LIRR 225 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
6/16/1972 Upload Date: 4/16/2009 1:37:03 PM |
Location: |
Speonk, NY |
Author: |
Marty Bernard |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
709 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LI 225 |
Description: |
Actual date not known. 126 Instamatic photo. |
Photo Date: |
1/1/1974 Upload Date: 12/28/2021 8:02:26 PM |
Location: |
Farmingdale, NY |
Author: |
Tim Darnell |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
230 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LI 225 |
Description: |
Actual date not known. 126 Instamatic photo. |
Photo Date: |
1/1/1975 Upload Date: 12/28/2021 8:02:42 PM |
Location: |
Morris Park, NY |
Author: |
Tim Darnell |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
173 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LI 225 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
11/1/1975 Upload Date: 4/2/2020 10:12:00 PM |
Location: |
Morris Park, NY |
Author: |
Tim Darnell |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
320 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
L to R: 463-440-225-467-1557 |
Description: |
4 models of Alco noses! Actual day not recorded. |
Photo Date: |
5/1/1976 Upload Date: 4/18/2020 7:46:03 PM |
Location: |
Morris Park, NY |
Author: |
Tim Darnell |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
LI 463(RS1) LI 440(S2) LI 225(C420) LI 467(RS1) LI 1557(RS3) |
Views: |
556 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Long Island C420 225 |
Description: |
Somewhere on Long Island, photographer unknown. |
Photo Date: |
2/24/1977 Upload Date: 4/9/2017 2:29:18 PM |
Location: |
Denver, CO |
Author: |
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Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
264 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LI 225 in for painting into the new scheme. |
Description: |
Not sure of actual date. Morris Park shop tour. |
Photo Date: |
6/11/1977 Upload Date: 5/24/2020 11:48:55 PM |
Location: |
Richmond Hill, NY |
Author: |
Tim Darnell |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
230 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Eastbound surprise |
Description: |
In 1978, the LIRR extended a couple of Ronkonkoma trains to Yaphank in response to the growing traffic as population on Long Island grew. Aside from the benefit to far east end riders, the bonus to fans was that they usually drew a C 420, which was becoming a rare event in those days, as the GP 38s had largely taken over the passenger duties. I caught one at Ronkonkoma, almost close enough to grab it. This was early in my photography career, and I still had a thing or two to learn about composition. |
Photo Date: |
7/18/1977 Upload Date: 12/2/2016 4:14:12 AM |
Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
431 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Mid day layovers |
Description: |
This is not the greatest shot. I probably took it with the 110 Instamatic I was using then, in my early rail photograpy days, but it catches a transitional time on the LIRR. We see an Alco in the MTA blue/yellow scheme from the late 60s with a passenger train, something that would very shortly become a rarity, as the GP 38s had been delivered; an MP 15 poking out behind a train in the center of the photo, probably the only place in America where they were used in passenger service; and two of the aforementioned GP 38s, one at far right, the other just poking a nose out behind the Alco. These units would be hold sway on diesel trains for almost the next 30 years. |
Photo Date: |
1/17/1978 Upload Date: 12/13/2016 3:36:44 AM |
Location: |
Long Island City, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Yard,Passenger |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
416 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LI 225 |
Description: |
Afga film. Actual date not known. 225 running around its train for the return west. |
Photo Date: |
10/1/1978 Upload Date: 11/1/2024 11:28:06 PM |
Location: |
Morris Park, NY |
Author: |
Tim Darnell |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
34 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
EMD SW1001 #102 and ALCO C-420 #225 |
Description: |
Roundhouse At Morris Park |
Photo Date: |
10/7/1978 Upload Date: 4/24/2014 3:45:13 PM |
Location: |
Morris Park, NY |
Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
LI 102(SW1001) LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
863 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LI 225 on RF58 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
10/5/1979 Upload Date: 5/17/2020 11:40:52 PM |
Location: |
Mineola, NY |
Author: |
Tim Darnell |
Categories: |
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Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
226 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
C420s |
Description: |
LIRR C420s 225 and 228 power a e/b freight at Jamaica, Queens. |
Photo Date: |
8/17/1982 Upload Date: 1/27/2008 2:00:20 PM |
Location: |
Jamaica, NY |
Author: |
Donald Albertson |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
517 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Done for the day |
Description: |
RF 63 has returned to Pine Aire and tied up. A new crew will come on after the evening rush and take the train to Fresh Pond as RF 91. |
Photo Date: |
9/23/1986 Upload Date: 12/14/2014 2:11:07 AM |
Location: |
Pine Aire, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Yard,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
701 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Local power |
Description: |
Long Island had a small yard at Pinelawn. The power there was usually an MP 15, but occasionally would be one or two C 420s. Today I got lucky and caught a pair of Centuries there. Note the maintenance trucks at right. LIRR kept the blue/yellow on its vehicles long after the trains went to blue and white. |
Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:58:16 AM |
Location: |
Pinelawn, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
Views: |
573 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Commuters rolling east |
Description: |
RF 63 has tied up in the siding at Deer Park, clearing up at the end of his day for the evening rush. Train 254 with MP 15 163 leading goes past the old Deer Park station en route to the end of its run in Ronkonkoma. The station here is no longer in use for passengers, having been supplanted by the new high level station built as part of the Ronkonkoma electrification. It will be kept for the freight crews and MOW. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/2/2015 4:26:33 AM |
Location: |
Deer Park, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 163(MP15AC) LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
Views: |
622 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
C 420s meet a Ronkonkoma train |
Description: |
RF 63 has tied up at the old Deer Park station, meeting an eastbound Ronkonkoma train which is pulling away as it heads for Wyandanch and Ronkonkoma |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 10:43:39 PM |
Location: |
Deer Park, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) LI 257(GP38-2) |
Views: |
1115 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pulling in |
Description: |
RF 63 takes the siding at SG in Brentwood. It will shortly meet an eastbound commuter train, then head on to Deer Park to tie up. The electrification project is progressing-note the third rail in place. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 1:37:38 AM |
Location: |
Brentwood, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
Views: |
521 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Made it |
Description: |
RF 63 is in the siding at Deer Park, its new base of operations. The old terminal, Pine Aire, was eliminated as part of the Ronkonkoma electrification project, as was the Deer Park station-note the platform has been partly removed, and the notice for the relocation on the station building. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 1:57:15 AM |
Location: |
Deer Park, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
Views: |
529 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pushing east |
Description: |
Train 254 with GP 38-2 257 in the unusual position of being on the west end, pushes past tied up RF 63 and its Alcos. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/2/2015 4:29:14 AM |
Location: |
Deer Park, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 257(GP38-2) LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
475 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
NY 112 |
Description: |
RF 63 crosses NY 112 in Medford. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:00:54 AM |
Location: |
Medford, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
Views: |
487 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Old station, new signals |
Description: |
RF 63 rolls past the erstwhile Ronkonkoma station and a new signal bridge, part of electrification project that will bring third rail and MU trains here, as well as a new station |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:17:47 AM |
Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
Views: |
501 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pulling past the switch |
Description: |
RF 63 has backed out of the siding at SG and is resuming its westward trek to tie up at DK |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:23:07 AM |
Location: |
Brentwood, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
Views: |
369 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
By the block limit |
Description: |
RF 63 passes block limit staton YA as it gets underway toward Ronkonkoma and Deer Park |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:26:01 AM |
Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
Views: |
371 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Not much of a station |
Description: |
To be fair, there was not much traffic there, and I doubt Yaphank ever had much of a station to begin with. This bus shelter affair is what serves in 1987 as RF63 rolls past |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:28:36 AM |
Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
Views: |
413 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RF 63 |
Description: |
RF 63 rolls into Brentwood, where it will take the siding at SG for a meet with an eastbound commuter train. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:32:52 AM |
Location: |
Brentwood, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
Views: |
371 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Smokin' it up |
Description: |
RF 62 does what Alcos do as it accelerates from a customer set out at Holtsville. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 4:09:12 AM |
Location: |
Holtsville, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
409 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Short train, long view |
Description: |
The flatness of Long Island is apparent in this shot of a 28 car RF 62 rolling through Holtsville, its caboose tucked in behind the power. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/5/2015 1:42:08 AM |
Location: |
Holtsville, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
617 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Rolling into the station |
Description: |
RF 62 rolls into Medford behind the usual pair of Alcos. Thats NY 112 down below. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/5/2015 1:28:58 AM |
Location: |
Medford, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
422 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Getting it together |
Description: |
RF 62 put their train together at Pine Aire before heading east. |
Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/5/2015 1:34:09 AM |
Location: |
Pine Aire, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
366 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
East end bound |
Description: |
RF 62 has passed the east end of the Ronkonkoma yard and is bound for Riverhead. |
Photo Date: |
6/16/1987 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:16:10 PM |
Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
621 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
LI 225 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
7/11/1987 Upload Date: 12/25/2012 10:06:09 AM |
Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
616 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
LI 225 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
7/11/1987 Upload Date: 12/25/2012 10:08:40 AM |
Location: |
Hither Hills, NY |
Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
606 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Short car |
Description: |
LIRR had a group of these short cabooses, almost as small as an ore jenny-a box on wheels. This one is tucked in behind the power on an RF Extra passing Bellerose. |
Photo Date: |
8/9/1987 Upload Date: 5/23/2015 2:39:53 AM |
Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
Views: |
195 Comments: 0 |
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