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Headed for home |
| Description: |
A big crowd waits on the Harlem Line train to Grand Central as July 4th weekend winds down. Most of the people there just came off the RDC at right, which covered the trip down from Dover Plains. Good thing the guy with the Suburban didn't leave his driver's side door open!! |
| Photo Date: |
7/5/1981 Upload Date: 12/3/2014 2:57:11 PM |
| Location: |
Brewster, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 19(RDC1) CR 5005(FL9) |
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994 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
CR commuter |
| Description: |
CR FL 9 5018 leads northbound train at Hawthorne on the Harlem Line. Date approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/1980 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 11:03:08 PM |
| Location: |
Hawthorne, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5018(FL9) |
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1192 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Lite power for Harmon |
| Description: |
A CR B23-7 takes a pair of FL9's to Harmon for commuter service out of Grand Central. Conrail ran the commuter trains on the ex NYC and New Haven til they were conveyed to Metro North a year later. Note the fresh paint on the cab units. |
| Photo Date: |
6/4/1981 Upload Date: 1/27/2013 11:28:42 PM |
| Location: |
Hudson, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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| Locomotives: |
CR 2802(B23-7) CR 5045(FL9) CR 5023(FL9) |
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1165 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
CR FL9s |
| Description: |
Conrail operated the commuter lines out of Grand Central on the former NYC and NH for several years til Metro North took over. Some FL 9s actually were painted Conrail during this time. Here are a pair at Danbury on a Friday afternoon, having just completed their trip from GCT. |
| Photo Date: |
7/3/1981 Upload Date: 1/15/2012 12:00:28 AM |
| Location: |
Danbury, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5034(FL9) CR 5053(FL9) |
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976 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Conrail paint too |
| Description: |
Some FL9s got a Conrail paint job before MN took over the operatoni in 1983, such as this one. Not sure if this is the last FL 9 built. Some were renumbered over the years, but the last roster number was 5059 |
| Photo Date: |
7/4/1981 Upload Date: 6/26/2014 1:31:32 PM |
| Location: |
Danbury, CT |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5059(FL9) CR 5037(FL9) |
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565 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling out |
| Description: |
A Grand Central bound train rolls out of Brewster on a cold winter day. The FL 9s were hand me downs from the New Haven, acquired when it was forced into the Penn Central n 1969. By then, the long haul business was in decline, and they started to work their way onto NYC lines, supplanting the Centrals fleet of RS 3s. Amtrak took a dozen of these units at start up in 1971, the rest going to PC. They became a staple of the diesel trains on the Harlem Line, as well as Poughkeepsie trains. |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1978 Upload Date: 12/5/2016 2:49:37 AM |
| Location: |
Brewster, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5039(FL9) |
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352 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting on the scoot |
| Description: |
This Grand Central bound Harlem Line train waits for the connection from Dover Plains, the end of track at the time. The RDC connection will arrive in a few minutes, send over its transfers, and its off to New York on a snowy afternoon. |
| Photo Date: |
2/15/1978 Upload Date: 12/5/2016 3:24:49 AM |
| Location: |
Brewster, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5053(FL9) |
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399 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
CR in NY State colors |
| Description: |
The funding for commuter trains following the start up of Conrail was convoluted. NY State put up a big pile of money via the MTA to keep the trains running, with Conrail the contract operator. Thus we got some FL 9s painted in the PC paint pattern, but in NYSDOT colors, lettered for Conrail. Heres one in Grand Central |
| Photo Date: |
9/7/1980 Upload Date: 12/5/2016 3:06:17 AM |
| Location: |
Grand Central Terminal, NY, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
CR 5053(FL9) |
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276 Comments: 0 |
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