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5/2/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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Heater car
Title:  Heater car
Description:  The Rio Grande used this PB1 as a steam generator car for train hotel power. Sadly, by the time I saw it, the Alco tri mount trucks had been replaced by a set of Blombergs, rendering this ungainly appearance.
Photo Date:  8/22/1982  Upload Date: 3/24/2013 4:19:41 AM
Location:  Salt Lake City, UT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  DRGW 253(Power Car)
Views:  691   Comments: 2
Fantrip meets FA
Title:  Fantrip meets FA
Description:  LIRR ran an all parlor fan trip on the Main Line to Greenport in May 1981. Here we see the fantrip at the yard there, with 620, next to the Greenport Scoot behind FA 602.
Photo Date:  5/16/1981  Upload Date: 1/26/2013 3:34:03 AM
Location:  Greenport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 620(Power Car) LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  764   Comments: 0
LIRR 602
Title:  LIRR 602
Description:  One of the FA power cars rolls away from the camera at Roslyn Rd
Photo Date:  6/14/1983  Upload Date: 11/13/2013 1:19:44 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  500   Comments: 2
Oyster Bay train
Title:  Oyster Bay train
Description:  One of the prettier areas on the north shore was Locust Valley on the Oyster Bay Branch. This train has just left the station and is rolling for Mill Neck and the end of the trip at Oyster Bay. The building on the left was once Locust tower, now a substation for the Nassau County PD 6th Precinct.
Photo Date:  10/16/1984  Upload Date: 7/11/2014 4:08:54 AM
Location:  Locust Valley, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 267(GP38-2) LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  845   Comments: 4
Ronkonkoma train going away
Title:  Ronkonkoma train going away
Description:  The west end of many trains was as interesting, if not more so, than the front. Heres an aging FA 2 bringing up the rear of this Ronkonkoma train.
Photo Date:  7/18/1985  Upload Date: 10/5/2014 3:55:29 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  364   Comments: 0
FA cab
Title:  FA cab
Description:  The west end of the Bay Ridge trip had Alco 602 for the cab.
Photo Date:  10/5/1985  Upload Date: 10/12/2014 3:44:35 AM
Location:  Bay Ridge, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  376   Comments: 0
FA in the park
Title:  FA in the park
Description:  The power pack on the Bay Ridge excursion was FA 2 602, seen here at the photo stop in Forest Park. The weather was dismal, as it always seemed to be when I went on a fantrip.
Photo Date:  10/5/1985  Upload Date: 10/12/2014 3:39:36 AM
Location:  Forest Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  414   Comments: 1
Straight on
Title:  Straight on
Description:  The nose of FA 602 seen at Clinton Rd on the Mitchell Field Secondary.
Photo Date:  10/5/1985  Upload Date: 10/12/2014 3:47:18 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  363   Comments: 0
West end
Title:  West end
Description:  The west end of the Bay Ridge excursion train as it sits and Clinton Rd. It will shortly head back to Jamaica.
Photo Date:  10/5/1985  Upload Date: 10/12/2014 3:49:07 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  443   Comments: 0
Side by side
Title:  Side by side
Description:  The Bay Ridge excursion sits next to a revenue Port Washington train at the end of the line.
Photo Date:  10/5/1985  Upload Date: 10/12/2014 3:51:26 AM
Location:  Port Washington, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car) LI 9146(M-1 Metropolitan)
Views:  528   Comments: 0
End of the line
Title:  End of the line
Description:  It doesnt get much closer than this!! An October 1985 fantrip covered the Bay Ridge branch, which had recently been acquired from Conrail. At the time, float bridges were being reconstructed at the Bay Ridge yard. The tracks would be extended to them once they were completed, but for now, its a rather abrupt end.
Photo Date:  10/12/1985  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:43:03 PM
Location:  Bay Ridge, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  671   Comments: 0
Battered
Title:  Battered
Description:  FA 602 always looked like it had been beaten up in the mid 80s. Here it is leading a Ronkonkoma train approaching the station at Mineola.
Photo Date:  1/21/1986  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 2:49:27 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  444   Comments: 0
FA on the rear
Title:  FA on the rear
Description:  The usual pattern for trains having a power pack was to put the FA on the west end. This one is following that pattern as it brings up the rear of an Oyster Bay train making its stop at Roslyn.
Photo Date:  7/19/1977  Upload Date: 11/30/2016 4:43:27 AM
Location:  Roslyn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 603(Power Car)
Views:  376   Comments: 0
LIRR 603
Title:  LIRR 603
Description:  LIRR 603, a former FA2, from the engineers side
Photo Date:  6/14/1983  Upload Date: 11/18/2011 2:16:33 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  LI 603(Power Car)
Views:  625   Comments: 0
Slumbering til tomorrow
Title:  Slumbering til tomorrow
Description:  Three trains watch the approaching dusk as they wait for tomorrow's rush hour at the Oyster Bay yard.
Photo Date:  9/20/1981  Upload Date: 3/3/2013 3:52:01 AM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 604(Power Car)
Views:  532   Comments: 0
604
Title:  604
Description:  LIRR FA power car 604 going away on a Ronknonkoma train
Photo Date:  7/12/1983  Upload Date: 11/23/2013 2:06:30 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 604(Power Car)
Views:  725   Comments: 0
FA in the morning
Title:  FA in the morning
Description:  An FA 1 leads a Jamaica bound train through Merillon Av
Photo Date:  1/14/1986  Upload Date: 10/20/2014 2:37:29 AM
Location:  Garden City Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  399   Comments: 0
Jamaica bound
Title:  Jamaica bound
Description:  This FA was leading a Jamaica bound Ronkonkoma train, crossing New Hyde Park Rd
Photo Date:  6/3/1986  Upload Date: 11/23/2014 4:23:22 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  350   Comments: 0
FA going away
Title:  FA going away
Description:  An FA brings up the rear of train 4012 to Montauk passing the Bellerose station. This was unusual, as 4012 almost always got an MP 15 power pack.
Photo Date:  3/22/1987  Upload Date: 4/20/2015 1:55:59 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  368   Comments: 1
FA to Ronkonkoma
Title:  FA to Ronkonkoma
Description:  This Ronkonkoma train is trailed by a very clean FA power pack.
Photo Date:  6/28/1987  Upload Date: 5/17/2015 1:45:39 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  313   Comments: 0
Always good to see a Ronkonoma train
Title:  Always good to see a Ronkonoma train
Description:  While they last. Within four months, these trains will join the ranks of MU powered moves, as the Main Line electrification project is completes. January 18 will be the first day of electric service to Ronkonkoma, making these trains mostly a memory. An FA brings up the rear of train 4252-for now.
Photo Date:  10/4/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 1:49:06 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  399   Comments: 0
605
Title:  605
Description:  FA 2 605 rolls east on the rear of Ronkonkoma train 4252
Photo Date:  12/6/1987  Upload Date: 6/17/2015 3:04:02 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
Mixed meet
Title:  Mixed meet
Description:  A westbound M 1 train meets an eastbound Oyster Bay train at Covert Av in New Hyde Park. The LIRR Main Line was always full of action, and meets were common.
Photo Date:  3/7/1988  Upload Date: 7/4/2015 2:37:13 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
Ready to go
Title:  Ready to go
Description:  A Patchogue scoot has taken on its passengers and is ready to head for a Babylon connection.
Photo Date:  5/7/1988  Upload Date: 7/16/2015 3:16:14 AM
Location:  Patchogue, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
Headed to a Babylon connection
Title:  Headed to a Babylon connection
Description:  A Patchogue scoot makes its stop at Great River as it rolls to a connection with MU trains for the trip into Penn Station.
Photo Date:  5/7/1988  Upload Date: 7/16/2015 3:08:38 AM
Location:  Oakdale, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  315   Comments: 1
Ill take it
Title:  Ill take it
Description:  Train 4012 to Montauk typically got an MP 15 for a power pack. Today, I got lucky, finding FA 2 605 taking up the rear.
Photo Date:  6/4/1989  Upload Date: 10/30/2015 4:33:31 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  327   Comments: 0
FA in new paint at an old station
Title:  FA in new paint at an old station
Description:  An Oyster Bay train makes its stop at Sea Cliff behind an FA, some of which also got painted in the new scheme.
Photo Date:  5/23/1993  Upload Date: 1/25/2015 3:24:59 AM
Location:  Sea Cliff, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  327   Comments: 0
Big nose
Title:  Big nose
Description:  The Alco cab units were known for their large flat noses. Here we look at FA 2 605 as it trails an Oyster Bay train at Sea Cliff. Too bad someone didnt put at least an MTA logo on there.
Photo Date:  5/23/1993  Upload Date: 1/25/2015 3:27:54 AM
Location:  Sea Cliff, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  339   Comments: 0
New scheme close up
Title:  New scheme close up
Description:  A roster view of FA 605 at Sea Cliff shows the paint scheme they were adorned with. It was tweaked a few times before this final look, but it came out looking good.
Photo Date:  5/23/1993  Upload Date: 1/25/2015 3:32:48 AM
Location:  Sea Cliff, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  384   Comments: 0
FA 2
Title:  FA 2
Description:  LIRR 606 is the power supply for this Port Jeff train rolling through Queens Village
Photo Date:  7/19/1983  Upload Date: 11/10/2013 2:39:09 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  479   Comments: 0
FA east
Title:  FA east
Description:  FA 606 rolls east trailing a Ronkonkoma train. The signal over head controls reverse moves on track 1.
Photo Date:  6/5/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 3:50:20 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  576   Comments: 0
FA on an Oyster Bay train
Title:  FA on an Oyster Bay train
Description:  An Alco FA power car brings up the rear of an Oyster Bay train at the beautiful Victorian Sea Cliff station
Photo Date:  11/14/1985  Upload Date: 11/13/2011 2:39:57 AM
Location:  Sea Cliff, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  541   Comments: 0
Starting to roll
Title:  Starting to roll
Description:  A westbound Oyster Bay train starts out of Mineola. The car behind 606 is one of the one time 1964 Worlds Fair cars.
Photo Date:  6/10/1986  Upload Date: 11/26/2014 3:42:10 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  470   Comments: 1
FA trailing
Title:  FA trailing
Description:  4252s power pack is FA 606 this Sunday.
Photo Date:  8/17/1986  Upload Date: 12/8/2014 1:45:26 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  431   Comments: 0
All Alco meet
Title:  All Alco meet
Description:  The origination point for RF 62, the Riverhead freight, was at a small station in Pine Aire in Suffolk county. The train would switch its cars and a local customer in between rush hour commuter trains, clearing up for each one til the morning rush was over. Here we see RF 62 in the hole for an early morning westbound behind FA 2 606
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:46:16 PM
Location:  Pine Aire, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  889   Comments: 0
FA leading the way
Title:  FA leading the way
Description:  This FA was leading a Ronkonkoma train past Pine Aire and waiting RF 62.
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 12/9/2014 2:31:56 AM
Location:  Pine Aire, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
Port Jeff bound FA
Title:  Port Jeff bound FA
Description:  This FA is taking up the rear of a Port Jefferson train at Bellerose.
Photo Date:  10/26/1986  Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:59:59 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  350   Comments: 0
Sea Cliff
Title:  Sea Cliff
Description:  The Sea Cliff station was a rather ornate Victorian building that looked good any time of day or night. Here we see it at night with an eastbound
Photo Date:  2/16/1987  Upload Date: 11/28/2012 1:22:41 AM
Location:  Sea Cliff, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  479   Comments: 1
Eastbound at a pretty station
Title:  Eastbound at a pretty station
Description:  An Oyster Bay bound train makes its stop at Sea Cliff, an FA bringing up the rear.
Photo Date:  2/17/1987  Upload Date: 4/19/2015 1:32:42 AM
Location:  Sea Cliff, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Night,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  364   Comments: 0
FA 2
Title:  FA 2
Description:  You cant really tell now, since the original Alco 244 power plant was replaced by a Caterpillar "sled", at which time the grills were changed, but this was once an FA 2. In any configuration, it looks good still on the road
Photo Date:  4/5/1987  Upload Date: 4/23/2015 3:29:48 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  351   Comments: 1
Clean FA
Title:  Clean FA
Description:  The end was near for the FAs, but LIRR kept them painted. A very clean and fresh 606 trails an Oyster Bay train.
Photo Date:  6/16/1987  Upload Date: 5/2/2015 4:04:25 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
FA on the main
Title:  FA on the main
Description:  This FA was taking up the rear of a Ronkonkoma train at Pine Lawn.
Photo Date:  8/29/1987  Upload Date: 5/25/2015 2:27:11 AM
Location:  Pinelawn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  382   Comments: 0
Classic scene
Title:  Classic scene
Description:  An FA brings up the rear of this Oyster Bay train rolling east under the PRR position lights at Queens Village. It will cross over in the interlocking to take Main Line track 2 east to Mineola. Queens tower is behind the second car in the train. The large building at left is Queens Village theater, a classic old movie house that at the time was showing mostly adult films and some pay per view events.
Photo Date:  10/18/1987  Upload Date: 6/9/2015 3:36:47 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  372   Comments: 0
Old station
Title:  Old station
Description:  An FA passes the old Bethpage station as it prepares to stop at the new high level platforms. It will be removed in a few months once the electrification project officially opens.
Photo Date:  10/29/1987  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 4:20:59 AM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  363   Comments: 0
Snowy meet
Title:  Snowy meet
Description:  A westbound set of M 1s passes and eastbound diesel train with FA 2 606 bringing up the rear on a snowy day in January.
Photo Date:  12/20/1987  Upload Date: 7/29/2012 12:52:04 AM
Location:  Floral Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  668   Comments: 2
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


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