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Tom Beckett's Collection
 
5/2/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Long Island Rail Road Company
Model:Rebuilt Alco Power CarBuilt As:WM 303 (FA2)
Serial Number:78606Order No:20606
Frame Number:Alco prime mover # 11720Built:1/1951
Notes:blt 1/51 as WM FA2 303
Other locos with this serial:  WM 303(FA2) LI 607(Power Car)
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607
Title:  607
Description:  FA 2 607 has the west end of a Ronkonkoma train
Photo Date:  7/19/1983  Upload Date: 11/10/2013 2:41:38 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  347   Comments: 0
FA to Port Jeff
Title:  FA to Port Jeff
Description:  Another FA, 607 this time, trails a Port Jeff train as it passes Nassau tower and bounds over the Main St and Willis Av crossings.
Photo Date:  6/5/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 3:55:11 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  368   Comments: 0
Nassau interlocking
Title:  Nassau interlocking
Description:  LI 607 brings up the rear of an Oyster Bay train taking the branch. In the photo, we see Nassau tower, and to its right, the power station that once supplied third rail power for the line that ran to a connection with the Hempstead Branch at Garden, a few miles south in Garden City, a line which was abandoned in the late 60s. I am standing on the extended platform, located where the connection to the branch once ran-it surved around to the right of the power station. Nassau was once a larger junction than now, with the Main Line going east and west, and connections to Oyster Bay and the south shore via the branch to Hempstead.
Photo Date:  2/12/1985  Upload Date: 9/25/2014 3:50:15 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  449   Comments: 0
West meets...west
Title:  West meets...west
Description:  An Oyster Bay train waits on track 1 as a westbound Ronkonkoma train behind an FA 2 passes on track 2.
Photo Date:  3/11/1986  Upload Date: 11/15/2014 11:43:37 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 151(MP15AC) LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  466   Comments: 0
Alco power
Title:  Alco power
Description:  An FA 2 converted to a power car rolls west with a Ronkonkoma train
Photo Date:  3/11/1986  Upload Date: 11/15/2014 11:45:43 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  250   Comments: 0
Clean paint
Title:  Clean paint
Description:  It was encouraging to see LIRR still painting its FAs this late in their careers. The Ronkonkoma electrification project would open in a year, and their future was clouded.
Photo Date:  1/11/1987  Upload Date: 12/29/2014 4:10:01 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  307   Comments: 0
FA at Shinnecock Canal
Title:  FA at Shinnecock Canal
Description:  FA2 607 heads a mid day Montauk train toward Babylon and an electric connection to New York
Photo Date:  1/14/1987  Upload Date: 5/22/2011 3:04:47 AM
Location:  Hampton Bays, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
FA in the snow
Title:  FA in the snow
Description:  A Port Jeff train pulls away on this snowy day with an FA trailing, as it usually does.
Photo Date:  2/1/1987  Upload Date: 12/31/2014 3:47:22 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  272   Comments: 2
FA westbound
Title:  FA westbound
Description:  An FA leads a westbound Oyster Bay train toward Jamaica and connections to New York and Brooklyn
Photo Date:  3/15/1987  Upload Date: 10/5/2011 11:33:09 PM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  412   Comments: 0
Clean power
Title:  Clean power
Description:  Well, the paint is-we all know that Alcos were heavy smokers, though by this time, these units had Caterpillar engine/generator sets installed, and were much more efficient and cleaner running. This is a Ronkonkoma train headed east.
Photo Date:  3/22/1987  Upload Date: 4/20/2015 2:04:34 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  256   Comments: 0
Clean leader
Title:  Clean leader
Description:  A freshly painted FA 2 leads this westbound Oyster Bay train past Bellerose.
Photo Date:  6/14/1987  Upload Date: 5/2/2015 4:06:54 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  158   Comments: 2
Dodging the shadows
Title:  Dodging the shadows
Description:  The FA trailing this eastbound Ronkonkoma train is playing in the shadows of the signal bridge as it makes its way into Queens interlocking on a cold day shortly before Christmas. A month from now, this run will be covered by MUs.
Photo Date:  12/20/1987  Upload Date: 6/18/2015 1:39:19 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
Blasting through
Title:  Blasting through
Description:  Except for one morning rush train, everything that came in the Main Line from Mineola made its last stop before Jamaica at New Hyde Park, about 1/4 mile to the east. This Port Jeff train made its last stop at Mineola, and is getting a good roll on as it approaches the upgrade to Floral Park on its way to LIRRs main transfer point.
Photo Date:  3/7/1988  Upload Date: 7/4/2015 2:40:39 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  155   Comments: 0


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