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6/8/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Long Island Rail Road Company
Model:EMD GP38-2Built As:LI 257 (GP38-2)
Serial Number:756091-8Order No:756091
Frame Number:756091-8Built:1/1976
Notes:1/76
Other locos with this serial:  LLPX 2242(GP38-2) LI 257(GP38-2) GMTX 2271(GP38-2)
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LIRR 257
Title:  LIRR 257
Description:  LIRR 257, still in the "Surfs Up" scheme with the red stripe, rolls east
Photo Date:  7/19/1983  Upload Date: 11/10/2013 2:27:28 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 257(GP38-2)
Views:  725   Comments: 0
Elgphant style out of Queens
Title:  Elgphant style out of Queens
Description:  Rolling out the east end of Queens interlocking, train 4012 is elephant style today with its two GP 38s not running the usual back to back.
Photo Date:  6/1/1986  Upload Date: 12/1/2014 2:27:07 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 259(GP38-2) LI 257(GP38-2)
Views:  1009   Comments: 0
Pushing off
Title:  Pushing off
Description:  The logjam is broken up as the Jamaica bound train pushes west, allowing the Ronkonkoma bound train to proceed, and RF 62 in the background to resume switching so it can head east to Riverhead once all the rush hour trains have cleared.
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 12/8/2014 1:34:22 AM
Location:  Pine Aire, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 257(GP38-2)
Views:  539   Comments: 0
C 420s meet a Ronkonkoma train
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:  1447   Comments: 0
Pushing east
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:  750   Comments: 0
October east enders
Title:  October east enders
Description:  The summer schedule of parlor equipped trains lasted well into the fall, usually til late October. We see a swelled consist behind the usual pair of GP 38s on this first weekend of October. A Hempstead train is coming up track 4 in the distance, and will make the stop here at Bellerose.
Photo Date:  10/4/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 1:46:14 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 257(GP38-2) LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  745   Comments: 0
Making its stop
Title:  Making its stop
Description:  An Oyster Bay train rolls under the signals at the west end of Mineola station about to make its stop there, then head up the branch.
Photo Date:  9/9/1991  Upload Date: 3/2/2015 2:31:06 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 257(GP38-2)
Views:  479   Comments: 0


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