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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: |
442 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: |
424 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pulling past |
| Description: |
The power pulls past to set off a couple of cars in the industrial siding east of the station. |
| Photo Date: |
6/9/1986 Upload Date: 11/25/2014 1:16:07 AM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 223(C420) |
| Views: |
522 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 91 stopping to work |
| Description: |
RF 91 behind the usual pair of C 420s stops at New Hyde Park to work a customer siding. |
| Photo Date: |
6/9/1986 Upload Date: 11/25/2014 12:52:36 AM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 223(C420) |
| Views: |
495 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: |
708 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: |
589 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 63 and the new station |
| Description: |
RF 63 rolls west at KO-note the block limit sign to the left of the lead unit-and the forms for the concrete supports of the new high level platforms that are part of the new station that will open in about 11 months when the Main Line electrification is completed. Big changes are coming!! |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1987 Upload Date: 4/16/2015 3:14:49 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 223(C420) |
| Views: |
481 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Meeting the track car |
| Description: |
RF 62 meets TC 80, in the hole at Yaphank. This view from the overpass west of the "station" shows how arrow straight the Main Line is through Suffolk County. |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1987 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:18:57 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) LI 225(C420) |
| Views: |
716 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
RF 62 |
| Description: |
RF 62 arrives at Yaphank on a very cold day in February 1987. This was as far as the train would go this day. |
| Photo Date: |
2/10/1987 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 10:36:45 PM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) LI 225(C420) |
| Views: |
709 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Making it up |
| Description: |
A pair of C 420s work at Pine Aire making up RF 62 to head east for Riverhead. Theyll do another hour of switching before going east, past Ronkonkoma and out of the commuter zone. Note the third rail. The opening of the Main Line electrification is less than a year away. |
| Photo Date: |
3/17/1987 Upload Date: 4/20/2015 2:27:51 AM |
| Location: |
Pine Aire, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 222(C420) |
| Views: |
537 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: |
634 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: |
1126 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: |
528 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: |
540 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: |
497 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: |
493 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: |
512 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: |
380 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: |
381 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: |
436 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: |
381 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: |
420 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: |
632 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: |
431 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: |
375 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: |
626 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: |
201 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF Extra |
| Description: |
Sometimes an extra job would run. Today was my lucky day, I caught this while waiting on the eastbound parade of passenger trains. Alco 225 has caboose 53 and 21 cars in tow. |
| Photo Date: |
8/9/1987 Upload Date: 5/23/2015 3:28:25 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) |
| Views: |
305 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A good start |
| Description: |
If you like Alco smoke!! RF 63 gets underway toward Ronkonkoma with a whole 16 cars, getting up to speed quickly with the usual show of power Alco is famous for. |
| Photo Date: |
10/29/1987 Upload Date: 6/12/2015 3:28:12 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) LI 225(C420) |
| Views: |
530 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working the siding |
| Description: |
RF 63 works its cars on the siding at Yaphank as the late day sun lights up the power. Block station YA is at far right, one of many to use its telegraph call sign into the digital age. |
| Photo Date: |
10/29/1987 Upload Date: 6/12/2015 3:32:18 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) LI 225(C420) |
| Views: |
305 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Caboose hop |
| Description: |
RF 57 is running caboose light as it passes through Mineola on its way to Fresh Pond. |
| Photo Date: |
12/20/1987 Upload Date: 6/17/2015 1:59:12 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 156(MP15AC) LI 225(C420) |
| Views: |
496 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Headed for Fresh Pond |
| Description: |
RF 57 has finished its work for the day and is headed through Floral Park on its way to tie up. |
| Photo Date: |
1/10/1988 Upload Date: 6/24/2015 4:19:24 AM |
| Location: |
Floral Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
339 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working the siding |
| Description: |
RF 57 is working the printer at New Hyde Park, switching cars in and out on the long siding there. Hell spend 30 minutes going back and forth before getting everything placed and pulled. |
| Photo Date: |
1/10/1988 Upload Date: 6/24/2015 4:21:52 AM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
408 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Walking it back |
| Description: |
RF 57s conductor is walking back with the shove to complete the work at the customer. He will shortly get permission out on the main to run to Fresh Pond. |
| Photo Date: |
1/10/1988 Upload Date: 6/24/2015 4:25:32 AM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
299 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Crossing Clinton |
| Description: |
The Kabin Kar Trek has gone as far out on the Mitchell Field line as it can, and changed ends. It now approaches the old Clinton Rd station in Garden City in a display only an Alco can provide. |
| Photo Date: |
9/10/1989 Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:57:09 AM |
| Location: |
Garden City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 225(C420) LI 609(Power Car) |
| Views: |
433 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Clinton Rd station |
| Description: |
The one remaining station on the Mitchell Field Secondary is at Clinton Rd in Garden City. The Kabin Kar Trek ran out as far as they could go, then stopped here for photos. This is the train behind a pair of MTA painted C 420s smoking past the old station. |
| Photo Date: |
9/10/1989 Upload Date: 11/28/2015 3:57:36 AM |
| Location: |
Garden City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 225(C420) LI 609(Power Car) |
| Views: |
434 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Street side |
| Description: |
The trip has passed Clinton Rd station, and is now backing up for another go. This time we look from the street side of the station. |
| Photo Date: |
9/10/1989 Upload Date: 11/28/2015 4:05:39 AM |
| Location: |
Garden City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 225(C420) LI 609(Power Car) |
| Views: |
333 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Last lap |
| Description: |
The Kabin Kar Trek is on its last leg as it rolls through Floral Park on its way to drop the tired but happy riders at Jamaica. |
| Photo Date: |
9/10/1989 Upload Date: 11/28/2015 4:10:58 AM |
| Location: |
Floral Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 225(C420) LI 609(Power Car) |
| Views: |
372 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Fantrip meet |
| Description: |
The LIRR Kabin Kar Trek-a fantrip where passengers could ride in one of eight cabooses on the train-is overtaken by a Port Jeff train as they pass the team tracks. |
| Photo Date: |
9/10/1989 Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:30:41 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 254(GP38-2) LI 609(Power Car) LI 225(C420) LI 229(C420) |
| Views: |
485 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Kabin Kars |
| Description: |
The LIRR ran a Kabin Kar Trek on this Sunday, covering some of the freight only areas on the west end, including Bushwick Terminal and the Bay Ridge Branch. After swapping power at Jamaica, it ran out the Mitchell Field Secondary behind a set of Alcos. Here is is passing the Queens Village team yard with FA 609 leading a pair of C 420s repainted in the MTA scheme from the 1960s. The Centuries still have their 251 engines, but the FA has had its 244 removed and a Caterpillar engine/generator set installed. It's just along for the ride, but an Alco cab leading a pair of Centuries is still a good looking consist. |
| Photo Date: |
9/10/1989 Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:38:51 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 609(Power Car) LI 225(C420) LI 229(C420) |
| Views: |
404 Comments: 0 |
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