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Title: |
Through the park |
Description: |
The Bay Ridge line excursion stops for a photo in Forest Park along the Montauk Branch |
Photo Date: |
10/5/1985 Upload Date: 10/12/2014 3:32:51 AM |
Location: |
Forest Park, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 226(C420) |
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571 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Ready to head back |
Description: |
The power of the Bay Ridge excursion at the newly refurbished Bay Ridge yard, ready to take the passengers back on and head for the next adventure-the Port Washington Branch. |
Photo Date: |
10/5/1985 Upload Date: 10/12/2014 3:38:04 AM |
Location: |
Bay Ridge, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 226(C420) |
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701 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Nose on |
Description: |
The front of C 420 222 projects an imposing image at the Bay Ridge yard. |
Photo Date: |
10/5/1985 Upload Date: 10/12/2014 3:42:03 AM |
Location: |
Bay Ridge, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) |
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282 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Clinton Road photo stop |
Description: |
A fantrip behind C 420s does a photo stop at the old passenger station at Clinton Road on the Garden City Secondary, normally a freight only line. |
Photo Date: |
10/19/1985 Upload Date: 6/20/2011 2:11:49 AM |
Location: |
Carle Place, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) |
Views: |
518 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
All Alcos as scoot meets fantrip |
Description: |
A Project 39 fantrip to Greenport behind C 420s meets the Greenport scoot behind an FA on a lovely day for an excursion |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1986 Upload Date: 6/20/2011 1:07:05 AM |
Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 229(C420) LI 617(Power Car) |
Views: |
1088 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
B Tower |
Description: |
The connection from the Main Line to the Central Branch was controlled by B Tower in Bethpage. Here an Alco powered fantrip to benefit Project 39 heads toward Riverhead on the Main Line, as operator Jay Bendersky hands up the orders. |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1986 Upload Date: 10/5/2011 11:38:11 PM |
Location: |
Bethpage, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 229(C420) |
Views: |
708 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Photo stop in the rain |
Description: |
The Project 39 trip ran in dismal weather. The stop at Oyster Bay was a washout, but some got off to get the shot anyway. |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1986 Upload Date: 11/21/2014 3:35:43 AM |
Location: |
Oyster Bay, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 229(C420) |
Views: |
429 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Ronkonkoma train pushing west to a meet |
Description: |
A westbound Ronkonkoma train gets a push from its GP 38, and will shortly meet the Project 39 trip, seen approaching in the distance behind a pair of C 420s. Its all happening at B tower in Bethpage. |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1986 Upload Date: 11/23/2014 4:01:59 AM |
Location: |
Bethpage, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 261(GP38-2) LI 222(C420) |
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582 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Project 39 trip |
Description: |
A fantrip tobenefit Project 39 ran on June 7 1986, a woefully rainy day in the New York area. Here the train approaches Jamaica to pick up its riders for the trip out to Greenport behind a pair of C 420s with F unit 619. At the time, there were still eight C 420's left, all from the 1968 order. These had hi ad trucks, unlike the first order from 1963. Interestingly, this was not even close to a farewell. These units would carry on into the 1990's before being retired. Note the PRR style dwarf signals, as well as the "hanger" on the platform canopy. |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1986 Upload Date: 10/7/2014 2:18:51 AM |
Location: |
Jamaica, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 229(C420) |
Views: |
480 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Arriving in the rain |
Description: |
The Project 39 fantrip behind C 420s made a run up the Oyster Bay Branch before returning to Mineola and heading for Greenport. Here it is as seen from the yard side of the main. |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1986 Upload Date: 11/23/2014 2:58:26 AM |
Location: |
Oyster Bay, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Yard,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 229(C420) |
Views: |
395 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Smoking it up |
Description: |
The Project 39 trip ran behind a pair of C 420s, here seen at Queens Village doing what Alcos do, laying down a pall of exhaust. |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1986 Upload Date: 11/21/2014 3:38:32 AM |
Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 229(C420) |
Views: |
429 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Great day for a fantrip |
Description: |
The Project 39 group ran a fantrip to benefit their restoration of LIRR 4-6-0 39, selecting a June Saturday for the trip. It poured, all day. No one will be getting off to see the 39 at Riverhead. The train has arrived, and will wait to meet the westbound scoot from Greenport, then roll on to the end of the line itself. |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1986 Upload Date: 11/23/2014 3:04:46 AM |
Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 229(C420) |
Views: |
413 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Pushing on through |
Description: |
The Project 39 fantrip is on its return to Mineola and the main line, seen here with Alcos pushing the train through Glen Cove. |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1986 Upload Date: 11/23/2014 3:08:44 AM |
Location: |
Glen Cove, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 229(C420) |
Views: |
417 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Meeting the scoot |
Description: |
The Project 39 fantrip meets the Greenport scoot with LIRR 267 pushing toward Jamaica, at Riverhead. |
Photo Date: |
6/7/1986 Upload Date: 11/23/2014 3:14:11 AM |
Location: |
Glen Cove, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 229(C420) LI 267(GP38-2) |
Views: |
648 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Closed up and rolling |
Description: |
RF 63 has closed up the siding after picking up, and is now getting a move on toward Ronkonkoma from YA-note the block limit sign at right. |
Photo Date: |
7/29/1986 Upload Date: 12/7/2014 3:51:02 AM |
Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 222(C420) |
Views: |
655 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Eastbound stone |
Description: |
What is probably the last stone train of the season heads past Bellerose station as it clears Queens interlocking behind a pair of C 420s |
Photo Date: |
11/2/1986 Upload Date: 6/12/2011 2:06:43 AM |
Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 228(C420) |
Views: |
918 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Rural scene |
Description: |
Whod have figured this pastoral view for Long Island?? It was already a lot more built up by this time than when I was a kid in the 60s, but there were a few places scenes like this could still be seen. A pair of C 420s rolls RF 65 toward Huntington and Hicksville |
Photo Date: |
12/23/1986 Upload Date: 12/29/2014 4:30:22 AM |
Location: |
Greenlawn, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) LI 222(C420) |
Views: |
391 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Getting underway |
Description: |
RF 65 pulls away from the siding at Greenlawn, now that its work is done and the scoot has cleared. |
Photo Date: |
12/23/1986 Upload Date: 12/29/2014 4:32:30 AM |
Location: |
Greenlawn, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) LI 222(C420) |
Views: |
438 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Going back to the train |
Description: |
RF 64 has run as far east as its going to on the Port Jeff branch today, and is now running around its train to start back as RF 65. That train more often got a pair of MP 15s, but occasionally would get a pair of Alcos. Im not complaining about the substitution. |
Photo Date: |
12/23/1986 Upload Date: 12/29/2014 4:38:23 AM |
Location: |
Kings Park, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) LI 222(C420) |
Views: |
475 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Passing the potato exchange |
Description: |
RF 63 passes the Long Island potato exchange. Potatoes were once a significant source of traffic on the LIRR, but have long since gone to trucks by this date. |
Photo Date: |
2/3/1987 Upload Date: 6/20/2011 2:01:26 AM |
Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Winter,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420) |
Views: |
607 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RF 63 at Riverhead |
Description: |
RF 63 with a pair of C 420s about to head back west to Pine Aire. When the train arrives there, it will work its train and tie up. Later that night, after rush hour, it will work to Fresh Pond as train RF 91. |
Photo Date: |
2/3/1987 Upload Date: 5/22/2011 3:02:54 AM |
Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420) |
Views: |
717 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Under the bridge |
Description: |
RF 63 passes under an old local bridge as seen from the William Floyd Parkway. This is one of the more rural scenes on Long Island at the time. |
Photo Date: |
2/3/1987 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:16:18 AM |
Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420) |
Views: |
633 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Rolling for Pine Aire |
Description: |
RF 63 rolls west through the pine barrens approaching Medford on a snowy afternoon. |
Photo Date: |
2/5/1987 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:04:05 AM |
Location: |
Medford, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420) |
Views: |
458 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Starting west |
Description: |
RF 63 has just left Riverhead and is working its way to a pick up at Yaphank and hopefully no rush hour delays getting back to Pine Aire. |
Photo Date: |
2/5/1987 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:08:18 AM |
Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420) |
Views: |
507 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Sign of days gone by |
Description: |
The building behind RF 63 is the Long Island Potato Exchange, once a huge deal on the Island. As late as the 1950s, solid trains of potatoes would be sent west from Riverhead. Better roads and higher real estate values meant fewer potatoes, and most of them now go by truck. Imagine three or four C 420s and 90 cars of potatoes-what a sight!! |
Photo Date: |
2/5/1987 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:11:33 AM |
Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Winter,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420) |
Views: |
366 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) |
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434 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Stuck in the middle |
Description: |
The pair of Alcos that are RF 62s power are in mid consist as they work a siding at Pine Aire, and get their train together. A few more moves, theyll be on the head end and rolling east. Note the WLO reporting marks on the first boxcar, for the Waterloo RR, an IC subsidiary, and the ex Rock box three cars from the power. |
Photo Date: |
3/17/1987 Upload Date: 4/20/2015 2:32:05 AM |
Location: |
Pine Aire, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Yard,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 222(C420) |
Views: |
390 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
An Alco, and MP 15, and an EL surprise |
Description: |
This RF 57, a weekend only freight that was mostly a relief job working customers needing a switch, rolls west at Bellerose with a mix of power, and one of ELs Greenville Car hoppers, many of which were still in service over ten years after EL vanished. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/1987 Upload Date: 5/23/2015 3:19:45 AM |
Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Signal,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 166(MP15AC) |
Views: |
303 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
RF 57 |
Description: |
RF 57 ran on weekends, using whatever was handy, although generally that meant one of the eight remaining C 420s, MP 15s would sometimes mix in, as on this Sunday afternoon. The Alco/EMD pair is westbound with 21 cars. |
Photo Date: |
8/16/1987 Upload Date: 5/23/2015 3:26:01 AM |
Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 166(MP15AC) |
Views: |
411 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
End of the line |
Description: |
The remaining 8 C 420s that had been working in freight service on the LIRR sit outside the Morris Park shops after being pulled from service following the opening of the Ronkonkoma electrification. The retirement would be short, as several would return to service, including 225 and 229, which would be repainted in the 1960s era blue and yellow MTA scheme. |
Photo Date: |
1/21/1988 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 7:41:49 PM |
Location: |
Jamaica, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 223(C420) LI 228(C420) LI 222(C420) |
Views: |
903 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Retro Centuries |
Description: |
Late in their careers, LIRR repainted a couple of C 420s into their as delivered scheme from the early MTA era. Here we see them on a fantrip at Floral Park on the Hempstead Branch. |
Photo Date: |
9/10/1989 Upload Date: 10/5/2011 11:35:51 PM |
Location: |
Floral Park, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 222(C420) |
Views: |
674 Comments: 0 |
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