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| Title: |
Oyster Bay picking up speed |
| Description: |
An Oyster Bay train has just cleared Queens interlocking and is picking up speed as it passes Bellerose on its way to the next stop at Mineola. |
| Photo Date: |
7/18/1984 Upload Date: 6/26/2014 1:01:42 PM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 160(MP15AC) |
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563 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Last train tonight |
| Description: |
The last Oyster Bay train til morning makes its Mineola stop. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/1986 Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:02:45 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
366 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Slowng for its stop |
| Description: |
An Oyster Bay train behind an MP 15 slows for its stop at Sea Cliff. |
| Photo Date: |
7/19/1987 Upload Date: 5/22/2015 1:11:23 AM |
| Location: |
Sea Cliff, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
372 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pushing hard |
| Description: |
When the Floral Park station was raised above grade in the early 60s, it resulted in a grade for westbound trains. This MP 15 us working as it pushes this Oyster Bay train toward Jamaica. |
| Photo Date: |
8/30/1987 Upload Date: 5/25/2015 1:58:42 AM |
| Location: |
Floral Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
405 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Union Hall St |
| Description: |
LIRR freights used a couple of tracks to the south of Jamaica station to pass the platforms. These tracks continued east to Holban Yard as running tracks. Here we see maid of all work on the west end of the railroad, RF 7, rolling back toward Fresh Pond on the running tracks as it approaches Hall tower in Jamaica. Union Hall St station, closed in the late 70s, once stood near this location. |
| Photo Date: |
1/29/1988 Upload Date: 6/24/2015 3:43:33 AM |
| Location: |
Jamaica, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 153(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
445 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 7 working |
| Description: |
RF 7 reported at Yard A in Sunnyside, and worked the Montauk Branch to Jamaica, then as directed east of there. Here it is working at Fresh Pond before going to Holban. |
| Photo Date: |
1/29/1988 Upload Date: 6/24/2015 4:06:41 AM |
| Location: |
Fresh Pond, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 160(MP15AC) LI 153(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
503 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Headed for Holban |
| Description: |
RF 7 rolls east at Maspeth past one of LIRRs position lights, a legacy of its PRR ownership. |
| Photo Date: |
1/29/1988 Upload Date: 6/24/2015 4:15:23 AM |
| Location: |
Maspeth, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 160(MP15AC) LI 153(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
502 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Delivering the cars |
| Description: |
RF 7 rolls up the connecting track from the LIRR to drop cars for Conrail. The tower is the former New Haven Fremont tower, which once controlled a much busier section of railroad here. |
| Photo Date: |
2/6/1988 Upload Date: 6/27/2015 3:25:30 AM |
| Location: |
Fresh Pond, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 160(MP15AC) LI 153(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
494 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: |
2307 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: |
726 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: |
743 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: |
736 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: |
689 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: |
769 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: |
737 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
MP pair |
| Description: |
A visit to family in New York yielded me an afternoon of train watching out at Mineola, a nice break from the drama of too many people in one house. I saw several double headers that day, including this pair of MP 15s on an Oyster Bay train. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1990 Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:46:32 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
284 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Oyster Bay rush hour train |
| Description: |
Most of the Oyster Bay trains got a locomotive on the east end and a power car on the west end. There was one train that ran with electric heat coaches that got a pair of MP 15s. Here it is passing Mineola. |
| Photo Date: |
5/10/1990 Upload Date: 5/15/2011 10:17:16 PM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
515 Comments: 0 |
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