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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/4/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Sperry Rail Service
Model:Saint Louis Car DoodlebugBuilt As:SAL 2022 (Doodlebug)
Serial Number:1459-261Order No:
Frame Number:Built:9/1927
Notes:blt by St. Louis-EMC, ex-SAL 2022, to SRS 4/45
Other locos with this serial:  SRS 134(Doodlebug)
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Sperry car visits Long Island
Title:  Sperry car visits Long Island
Description:  Sperry car 134 had the task of inspecting the LIRR. Getting it worked in between scheduled trains was a challenge!!
Photo Date:  2/4/1986  Upload Date: 11/18/2011 2:42:18 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Action
Locomotives:  SRS 134(Doodlebug)
Views:  396   Comments: 1
Checking the Main Line
Title:  Checking the Main Line
Description:  Sperry car 134 rolls through New Hyde Park on track 1 as it checks for rail defects. Working the electrified zone could be a challenge for the Sperry car, since it needed an absolute clear to run, a hard thing to come by with the traffic density on this end of the railroad.
Photo Date:  11/19/1987  Upload Date: 6/11/2015 3:39:16 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  SRS 134(Doodlebug)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
Working track 4.
Title:  Working track 4.
Description:  Todays effort is to work track 4, the southernmost track on the Main Line west of Queens, then onto the Hempstead Branch. The Sperry car is about to pass Queens Village station
Photo Date:  11/19/1987  Upload Date: 6/11/2015 3:49:00 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SRS 134(Doodlebug)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
Waiting in good company
Title:  Waiting in good company
Description:  Sperry car 134 waits on a siding at Riverhead. In the background is the tender for LIRR 39, behind restored at the Railroad Museum of Long Island.
Photo Date:  11/21/1987  Upload Date: 6/11/2015 3:53:52 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SRS 134(Doodlebug)
Views:  308   Comments: 0
Old doodlebug
Title:  Old doodlebug
Description:  A nose on shot of Sperry car 134 shows it for the doodlebug it once was. Partly dismantled G 5 4-6-0 39 is at left.
Photo Date:  11/21/1987  Upload Date: 6/11/2015 4:02:46 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SRS 134(Doodlebug) LI 39(4-6-2)
Views:  434   Comments: 0
Sperry car on the NS
Title:  Sperry car on the NS
Description:  I made a pick up in Bellevue, and had a view of the tracks. This car happened along while I was getting loaded.
Photo Date:  5/30/2000  Upload Date: 2/23/2014 4:31:19 AM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SRS 134(Doodlebug)
Views:  343   Comments: 0


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