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| Title: |
Headed up the branch |
| Description: |
An eastbound Oyster Bay train with a typical consist of MP 15s at both ends has departed Mineola and is about to take the switch to head up the Oyster Bay Branch at Nassau tower. "P" on the nose of 161 indicates it is set up to provide head end power for the train. |
| Photo Date: |
7/24/1984 Upload Date: 6/26/2014 1:08:31 PM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) |
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444 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 15 power pack |
| Description: |
An MP 15 AC set up to run as a power pack trails a Montauk train about to roll through Queens interlocking. The five cars immediately ahead of the engine are parlors, still a prominent feature of east end trains on Long Island at this time. |
| Photo Date: |
7/18/1985 Upload Date: 10/5/2014 3:40:42 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
393 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Wrong end east |
| Description: |
Typically, the push pull sets on Long Island ran with the power pack on the west end. This one seems to have gotten turned around, as the MP 15 providing train power is facing east, with GP 38-2 272 on the west end. The Stony Brook station is one of the more attractive stations on the island, surprisingly small considering it's adjacent to the SUNY Stony Brook campus, out of the photo to the left. |
| Photo Date: |
5/13/1986 Upload Date: 11/21/2014 12:49:04 AM |
| Location: |
Stony Brook, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
369 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Power pack east |
| Description: |
An MP 15 power pack trails train 4012 passing Bellerose. Note the five parlors immediately ahead of the MP 15. They will be spread among several westbound trains out of Montauk later that evening. |
| Photo Date: |
8/3/1986 Upload Date: 12/6/2014 3:15:35 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
553 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Double packed |
| Description: |
A pair of MP 15 trails the parlors on 4012 this Sunday afternoon. |
| Photo Date: |
8/10/1986 Upload Date: 12/7/2014 4:30:51 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 162(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
558 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Trading power |
| Description: |
Usually train 4012 gets one MP 15-I dont think I ever saw it with an FA-going east. Todays train had two. My guess is they needed to swap a unit at Montauk. |
| Photo Date: |
8/10/1986 Upload Date: 12/7/2014 4:34:20 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 162(MP15AC) LI 161(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
610 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
No room |
| Description: |
A westbound train from Ronkonkoma rolls into Pine Aire station while RF62 looks on from the siding. An eastbound train waits for the westbound to clear. No room at the inn this morning. In an hour, it will be empty. |
| Photo Date: |
8/10/1986 Upload Date: 12/7/2014 4:38:09 AM |
| Location: |
Pine Aire, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 172(MP15AC) LI 161(MP15AC) LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
1294 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Into the tunnel |
| Description: |
An Amtrak train rolls toward the East River tunnels as it makes its way from Sunnyside to Penn Station to take on riders. Seen from the stairway to the LIRR Hunterspoint Av station. Note the Ringling Bros train in the background, being staged to unload for their engagement at Madison Square Garden. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 4:11:13 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, Hunters Point, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
AMTK 606(E60) LI 161(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
754 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ringling Brothers train |
| Description: |
The Ringling Brothers circus train passes Nassau Blvd station on the Hempstead Branch after leaving Nassau Coliseum on the Mitchell Field secondary en route to Amtrak at Long Island City |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 10/8/2011 3:24:08 AM |
| Location: |
Garden City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
2153 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Getting out on the main |
| Description: |
Not exactly main line running, but close. The Ringling Brothers train has permission onto the Hempstead Branch at Garden, and is clearing the Mitchell Field Secondary as it gets underway to Long Island City to spot the train for the circus visit to Madison Square Garden. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:01:58 AM |
| Location: |
Garden City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
576 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bright wagons |
| Description: |
The circus train is partly intermodal, as all of its roadway equipment is loaded on trailer flats and run to the next venue. Here are some of them in this going away shot at Garden. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:04:02 AM |
| Location: |
Garden City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
606 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Nassau Blvd |
| Description: |
The Ringling Brothers train approaches Nassau Blvd in Garden City, its train stretched out back into downtown. Looks almost like a real intermodal train. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:26:43 AM |
| Location: |
Garden City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
602 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Track 4 |
| Description: |
Sometimes the LIRR would run the circus train across to track 1 at Queens, as it runs the Main Line to Harold, where Amtrak power takes over. Today, the movement director has decided to run it on track 4, since it will go to Yard A, and not be handed off to Amtrak. It will take the freight bypass tracks on the south side of Jamaica station, then run the Montauk Branch, entering Sunnyside Yard A to back down to the old staging yard for the LI City ferry. There it will spot the cars for unloading. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:11:04 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
546 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Down the ramp |
| Description: |
The Ringling Brothers train rolls down the ramp on the secondary from Bliss as it enters Yard A at Sunnyside. That's the Chrysler Building directly behind the power. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:15:26 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
622 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Spotting cars |
| Description: |
The Ringling Brothers train is being spotted by the MP 15s here in an old ferry yard. The equipment and livestock will be unloaded here and taken through the Midtown Tunnel, then across 34th St to the Garden. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:18:07 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
589 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Taking the branch |
| Description: |
An Oyster Bay train heads up the branch at Nassau tower with a power pack equipped MP 15 taking up the rear. As soon as he clears the plant, the signal at right will go to clear. |
| Photo Date: |
9/9/1991 Upload Date: 3/2/2015 2:29:15 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
326 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 15 in blue and yellow |
| Description: |
In the late 1980s, LIRR decided to change their image from the blue and white that had been the scheme since the early 70s, back to the blue and yellow MTA colors they used when the MTA originally took over in the 1960s. Heres one of the MP 15s in the new paint. Note the first car of the train had the headlight plated over, a sign it was a former MU car converted to diesel service. |
| Photo Date: |
5/16/1993 Upload Date: 5/22/2011 3:08:31 AM |
| Location: |
Sea Cliff, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
574 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
New paint |
| Description: |
One of the new developments since I moved away from NY City five years earlier was a retro paint scheme, somewhat similar to the New York State colors used from the mid 60s, when MTA took over the railroad from the Pennsy, til 1977 when the blue and white scheme was adopted. Here, MP 15 161 rolls away from the camera in the new scheme on its way to Oyster Bay. |
| Photo Date: |
5/23/1993 Upload Date: 1/25/2015 3:17:21 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
470 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Retro |
| Description: |
A retro painted MP 15 leads at the classic Victorian era Sea Cliff station. The "P" on the nose indicates the unit is set up to provide hotel power for the train. |
| Photo Date: |
5/23/1993 Upload Date: 1/25/2015 3:20:40 AM |
| Location: |
Sea Cliff, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
266 Comments: 1 |
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