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| Title: |
Engine change |
| Description: |
A C420 is taking up the rear on this Ronkonkoma train at Mineola. There was a GP 38 leading, and one of the FA 1s as a power pack. The only thing I can figure is the Alco was being dropped at Pine Aire for the freight, which must have had one of its units fail. |
| Photo Date: |
8/15/1985 Upload Date: 10/7/2014 2:41:08 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) |
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341 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: |
411 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: |
390 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pulling up |
| Description: |
RF 91 pulls up into New Hyde Park station to make the cut for the customer siding just to the east. |
| Photo Date: |
7/8/1986 Upload Date: 12/3/2014 2:46:12 PM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 223(C420) |
| Views: |
415 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Stone train |
| Description: |
RF 7 was a catch all run, and worked as directed, even on weekends. Here it is with a short cut of stone cars rolling east through Bellerose. The engine has recently been repainted. |
| Photo Date: |
10/12/1986 Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:42:49 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) |
| Views: |
369 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working on the railroad |
| Description: |
C 420 223 has a work train under control as the construction continues for the electrification project that will bring better and faster service to central Long Island. LIRR had little freight equipment of its own, just some MOW cars, so had to use other roads cars for projects, such as the C&O gon behind the power. Opening day is only 15 months off. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:16:53 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) |
| Views: |
482 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
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: |
377 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: |
604 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: |
602 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Stone to Holtsville |
| Description: |
RF 56, a weekend train that ran the Main Line, rolls through B Towers interlocking with 35 cars of stone for Prema Asphalt in Holtsville. They were a big seasonal customer on the LIRR, getting several trainloads of stone per week from a quarry in Connecticut via the P&W. The track in the foreground is the Central Branch, which runs to a connection with the Babylon Branch just west of the Babylon station. It is used by RF 64/65 and a host of commuter trains. |
| Photo Date: |
8/29/1987 Upload Date: 5/25/2015 1:50:54 AM |
| Location: |
Bethpage, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
331 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
RF 56 |
| Description: |
Weekend train RF 56 rolls through the east side of Hicksville on the Main Line on its way east with 35 cars of stone for Prema Asphalt. |
| Photo Date: |
8/29/1987 Upload Date: 5/25/2015 1:52:12 AM |
| Location: |
Hicksville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
338 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
445 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: |
217 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
The show goes on |
| Description: |
In the midst of all the hoopla surrounding the opening of the Ronkonkoma electrification, the freight work went on. RF 62 rolls east past the station behind the usual C 420s. |
| Photo Date: |
1/18/1988 Upload Date: 6/22/2015 4:00:09 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 223(C420) |
| Views: |
469 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: |
No more action |
| Description: |
Or maybe there will be. A pair of C 420s rendered surplus sit behind the shop at Morris Park. At this point, their future looks dim, but the Centuries will rise again, and have an indian summer for a few years before finally going to scrap. Note the other equipment stashed with the Alcos-a cupola caboose, a box car, and a retire B 60 baggage car. I can recall seeing these on some east end trains in the 1960's. |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1988 Upload Date: 6/27/2015 4:39:42 AM |
| Location: |
Morris Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 223(C420) |
| Views: |
238 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 65 |
| Description: |
RF 65 heads west toward Hicksville behind a pair of C 420s. When LIRR started building high level platforms at all its stations, it also built pedestrian overpasses, which opened up photo angles previously not available. Here, Im taking advantage of the the new overpass to get this panoramic view of Kings Park on the Port Jeff branch. |
| Photo Date: |
6/14/1988 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 10:33:45 PM |
| Location: |
Kings Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) |
| Views: |
479 Comments: 1 |
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