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| Title: |
Morning line up |
| Description: |
A set of C 420s is on the ready track at Holban Yard, ready to move out with whatever the yardmaster has put together for them. Theyll go east later in the day. Holban, a combination of HOLlis and st alBANs, sat between the two sections of Queens, in a triangle shape, bounded by the Main Line on the north, and the Montauk Branch on the south. The Montauk Branch is seen behind the power, its viaduct crossing over the eastbound Main Line and yard lead just west of the yard at a place called Hillside, where there was an abandoned station. It is used by trains going to Babylon, as well as a few diesel trains going farther east. |
| Photo Date: |
4/26/1979 Upload Date: 11/30/2016 5:04:32 AM |
| Location: |
Hollis, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
833 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Holban power |
| Description: |
A set of power waiting to go out sits on the ready track at Holban Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
9/13/1983 Upload Date: 11/25/2013 1:36:20 AM |
| Location: |
Hillside, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
985 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
RF 7 |
| Description: |
RF 7 rolls through Fresh Pond en route to Yard A |
| Photo Date: |
9/13/1983 Upload Date: 11/25/2013 1:32:24 AM |
| Location: |
Fresh Pond, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
774 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
RF 7 at Fresh Pond tower |
| Description: |
RF 7 passes under Conrails Bay Ridge line and MTAs M line, and Fresh Pond tower, the roof of which is seen above the power. Note the dwarf signal where the Bay Ridge line connects to the LIRR |
| Photo Date: |
9/13/1983 Upload Date: 11/25/2013 1:34:43 AM |
| Location: |
Fresh Pond, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
813 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Work train |
| Description: |
In June 1984, there was a washout on the Port Washington Branch about 1/2 mile east of Little Neck, which closed the line for a couple of weeks while the repairs were made. These C 420s brought the work train out and were parked at Douglaston station, a very unusual circumstance. View is from the Douglaston Parkway overpass. |
| Photo Date: |
6/14/1984 Upload Date: 6/26/2014 3:41:34 AM |
| Location: |
Douglaston, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 229(C420) |
| Views: |
968 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Work train power |
| Description: |
A platform view of the power for the work train that had brought fill for the Little Neck washout. |
| Photo Date: |
6/14/1984 Upload Date: 6/26/2014 3:45:28 AM |
| Location: |
Douglaston, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
845 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 7 |
| Description: |
RF 7 works down the flyover into Yard A at Sunnyide, seen from the fantrip that covered the Bay Ridge line and Mitchell Field Secondary that day. |
| Photo Date: |
10/5/1985 Upload Date: 10/11/2014 3:17:47 AM |
| Location: |
Long Island City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
594 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 91 |
| Description: |
RF 91 was the westbound road freight that ran Sunday through Thursday nights from Pine Aire to Fresh Pond. It worked some of the industrial sidings in Nassau county, such as one just east of the New Hyde Park station. It has stopped in the station while the ground man lines the switches to access the customer. Time?? Around 0300. |
| Photo Date: |
3/4/1986 Upload Date: 11/15/2014 4:21:13 AM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
526 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 7 west |
| Description: |
RF 7 works on the Montauk branch at Fresh Pond. We see it passing under the Conrail line from Hell Gate Bridge, where interchange traffic is exchanged between the LIRR and CR. The dwarf signal protects the connecting track from the Bay Ridge line, which curves sharply off to the left out of the picture, from trains leaving Fresh Pond yard. The train is about to pass Pond tower, and then will roll under the NYCTA Myrtle Av line, at the time the M train. |
| Photo Date: |
10/14/1986 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:14:31 PM |
| Location: |
Fresh Pond, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
708 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
RF 7 |
| Description: |
LIRR RF 7 heads east past the station at Bellerose NY. Date is approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
10/19/1986 Upload Date: 10/5/2011 11:28:25 PM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
995 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Local power |
| Description: |
Long Island had a small yard at Pinelawn. The power there was usually an MP 15, but occasionally would be one or two C 420s. Today I got lucky and caught a pair of Centuries there. Note the maintenance trucks at right. LIRR kept the blue/yellow on its vehicles long after the trains went to blue and white. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:58:16 AM |
| Location: |
Pinelawn, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
459 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
Quiet at Queens Village |
| Description: |
RF 11, with consecutively numbered C 420's, cools its heels at the Queens Village station as it waits for a late night parade of passenger trains. There will be an eastbound Montauk train, followed by an Oyster Bay train. Once they clear, the freight will get the board to go east to Pine Aire with 64 cars and cabin #64. Tonights train is unusual, having three C 420s. This train almost always got two units. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/1987 Upload Date: 5/22/2011 3:01:00 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
848 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting for the board |
| Description: |
RF 11 was pulled up to the signal on track 4 at Queens to wait for traffic, not uncommon as there was a flurry of passenger trains around 1 AM every night. Todays train has three C 420s instead of the usual two. Pennsys position light signals were always interesting to watch, especially so at night. Hell get going after the Oyster Bay train clears going east. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/1987 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 2:50:27 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
647 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting at the station |
| Description: |
RF 11 was cooling its heels waiting for traffic at Queens Village in this platform shot, also showing the waiting area on the westbound platform across the tracks. Lead unit 228 seems to have a new coat of paint. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/1987 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 3:04:18 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
604 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Commuters rolling east |
| Description: |
RF 63 has tied up in the siding at Deer Park, clearing up at the end of his day for the evening rush. Train 254 with MP 15 163 leading goes past the old Deer Park station en route to the end of its run in Ronkonkoma. The station here is no longer in use for passengers, having been supplanted by the new high level station built as part of the Ronkonkoma electrification. It will be kept for the freight crews and MOW. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/2/2015 4:26:33 AM |
| Location: |
Deer Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 163(MP15AC) LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
489 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
C 420s meet a Ronkonkoma train |
| Description: |
RF 63 has tied up at the old Deer Park station, meeting an eastbound Ronkonkoma train which is pulling away as it heads for Wyandanch and Ronkonkoma |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 10:43:39 PM |
| Location: |
Deer Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) LI 257(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
977 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pulling in |
| Description: |
RF 63 takes the siding at SG in Brentwood. It will shortly meet an eastbound commuter train, then head on to Deer Park to tie up. The electrification project is progressing-note the third rail in place. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 1:37:38 AM |
| Location: |
Brentwood, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
415 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Made it |
| Description: |
RF 63 is in the siding at Deer Park, its new base of operations. The old terminal, Pine Aire, was eliminated as part of the Ronkonkoma electrification project, as was the Deer Park station-note the platform has been partly removed, and the notice for the relocation on the station building. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 1:57:15 AM |
| Location: |
Deer Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
411 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NY 112 |
| Description: |
RF 63 crosses NY 112 in Medford. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:00:54 AM |
| Location: |
Medford, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
399 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Old station, new signals |
| Description: |
RF 63 rolls past the erstwhile Ronkonkoma station and a new signal bridge, part of electrification project that will bring third rail and MU trains here, as well as a new station |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:17:47 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
396 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pulling past the switch |
| Description: |
RF 63 has backed out of the siding at SG and is resuming its westward trek to tie up at DK |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:23:07 AM |
| Location: |
Brentwood, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
284 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
By the block limit |
| Description: |
RF 63 passes block limit staton YA as it gets underway toward Ronkonkoma and Deer Park |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:26:01 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
287 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Not much of a station |
| Description: |
To be fair, there was not much traffic there, and I doubt Yaphank ever had much of a station to begin with. This bus shelter affair is what serves in 1987 as RF63 rolls past |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:28:36 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
316 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 63 |
| Description: |
RF 63 rolls into Brentwood, where it will take the siding at SG for a meet with an eastbound commuter train. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:32:52 AM |
| Location: |
Brentwood, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) |
| Views: |
296 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Smokin' it up |
| Description: |
RF 62 does what Alcos do as it accelerates from a customer set out at Holtsville. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/3/2015 4:09:12 AM |
| Location: |
Holtsville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420) |
| Views: |
325 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Short train, long view |
| Description: |
The flatness of Long Island is apparent in this shot of a 28 car RF 62 rolling through Holtsville, its caboose tucked in behind the power. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/5/2015 1:42:08 AM |
| Location: |
Holtsville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420) |
| Views: |
515 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling into the station |
| Description: |
RF 62 rolls into Medford behind the usual pair of Alcos. Thats NY 112 down below. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/5/2015 1:28:58 AM |
| Location: |
Medford, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420) |
| Views: |
341 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Getting it together |
| Description: |
RF 62 put their train together at Pine Aire before heading east. |
| Photo Date: |
6/8/1987 Upload Date: 5/5/2015 1:34:09 AM |
| Location: |
Pine Aire, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420) |
| Views: |
278 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
East end bound |
| Description: |
RF 62 has passed the east end of the Ronkonkoma yard and is bound for Riverhead. |
| Photo Date: |
6/16/1987 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:16:10 PM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420) |
| Views: |
556 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Light centuries |
| Description: |
A pair of C 420s rolls east past Bellerose station. |
| Photo Date: |
11/22/1987 Upload Date: 6/17/2015 2:29:38 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
330 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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