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| Title: |
Surfs up!! |
| Description: |
Long Island for a time painted their GP38s witha red stripe. The inspiration was their Bicentennial unit, 252, which was painted that way when it arrived in 1976. Eventually all the big road power got the treatment, which only lasted a few years. |
| Photo Date: |
7/12/1983 Upload Date: 11/23/2013 2:00:24 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
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654 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ronkonkoma train east |
| Description: |
A Ronkonkoma train has just cleared Queens and accelerates past the Bellrose station |
| Photo Date: |
5/15/1984 Upload Date: 7/2/2014 3:55:05 PM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
784 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ronkonkoma train |
| Description: |
A Ronkonkoma train makes its Mineola stop at will shortly be headed east. |
| Photo Date: |
6/11/1986 Upload Date: 11/22/2014 2:47:49 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
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591 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
LIRR 256 |
| Description: |
One of the more obscure locations on the LIRR is Cold Spring Harbor, between Syosset and Huntington. Here we see a westbound Port Jeff train rolling through the station. This is one of the steeper grades on the LIRR, 1.4%. In steam days, even the K4's would struggle here. |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/1986 Upload Date: 11/18/2011 1:11:01 AM |
| Location: |
Cold Spring Harbor, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
673 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Early morning to work |
| Description: |
A westbound pushes toward New York with a train full of commuters eager to get to work. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:47:32 AM |
| Location: |
Farmingdale, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
506 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
4012 in low sun |
| Description: |
The winter is here, and 4012 bathes in the low sun, even with its mid day departure from Jamaica. |
| Photo Date: |
1/11/1987 Upload Date: 12/29/2014 4:05:56 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
410 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Winter time 4012 |
| Description: |
Unlike its summer counterpart, the winter edition of train 4012, which ran from Jamaica to Montauk on Sunday afternoon.!This time of year, it was usually 8 or 9 cars behind a single unit, unlike the beach season, when the consist would swell to 12 or 14 cars behind a pair of GP 38-2s, usually back to back. |
| Photo Date: |
2/8/1987 Upload Date: 4/17/2015 1:48:52 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
419 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Big station |
| Description: |
One town that had a much bigger station than seemed necessary for the traffic was Farmingdale, with its three stories and brick construction. By the 1980s, there was an agent for the morning rush, and mostly an empty building. |
| Photo Date: |
4/16/1987 Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:42:08 AM |
| Location: |
Farmingdale, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
598 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ronkonkoma train |
| Description: |
About an hour after 4012 rolled through, this Ronkonkoma train-4252, I believe-came east with a more standard set of a single GP 38, six or seven cars, and an FA(most of the time). Always fun to watch it bounce through the switches at Queens. In the background, RF 57 heads down the middle track toward Jamaica and Fresh Pond. |
| Photo Date: |
8/16/1987 Upload Date: 5/23/2015 3:35:50 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
404 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pushing at the new station |
| Description: |
A westbound Ronkonkma train is pushed toward Jamaica at the new platforms in Bethpage. |
| Photo Date: |
10/29/1987 Upload Date: 6/12/2015 4:13:13 AM |
| Location: |
Bethpage, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
423 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Long train for winter |
| Description: |
Train 4012 was the mid day Sunday Montauk train, and usually ran long, as it was used to position equipment to accommondate returning weekenders. In winter it had no parlors, but could still run ten cars. We see it passing the station as it runs full out for Hicksville and the Central Branch. |
| Photo Date: |
11/22/1987 Upload Date: 6/17/2015 2:42:54 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
434 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
High dollar |
| Description: |
There is one train that carries a parlor on the Oyster Bay branch, a subscription car reserved by a group of well to do commuters who use it as a private club. It is waiting out the weekend here in the Oyster Bay yard. |
| Photo Date: |
1/30/1988 Upload Date: 6/27/2015 3:48:59 AM |
| Location: |
Oyster Bay, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
LI 256(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
580 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
A pair and parlors |
| Description: |
This Montauk train has a parlor car ahead of the coaches, but the two GP 38s will make easy work of the run out east. |
| Photo Date: |
5/7/1990 Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:51:33 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 263(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
608 Comments: 0 |
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