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| Title: |
Metro North test train |
| Description: |
The Port Washington Branch had a test facility at Shea Stadium, where there were a number of unused tracks that had been built for the 1964/65 Worlds Fair. Off line trains were somtimes seen, usually new equipment being tested, but occasionally NYCTA cars too, since the voltages were similar, and they shared an over running third rail. I recall seeing R42 cars going past my house in Little Neck. Here we see some Metro North cars waiting to go east on a test. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1983 Upload Date: 11/25/2013 1:10:14 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 8022(M-3 Metropolitan) MNCR 8012(M-3 Metropolitan) |
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442 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MU meet |
| Description: |
A set of Harlem Line M 1s passes and inbound set just north of the Woodlawn station |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/1987 Upload Date: 5/2/2015 2:15:38 AM |
| Location: |
Woodlawn, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 8040(M-3 Metropolitan) MNCR 8091(M-1 Metropolitan) |
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499 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pulling away |
| Description: |
A Grand Central bound train pulls from the platform at Tarrytown. |
| Photo Date: |
6/3/1989 Upload Date: 10/30/2015 4:04:28 AM |
| Location: |
Tarrytown, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 8375(M-3 Metropolitan) |
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203 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
125th St next |
| Description: |
A Grand Central bound train arrives at Tarrytown. Ill jump on here, as Im headed to my cousins wedding in New York. I had driven down from Binghamton, and rather than go to Manhattan and pay a ridiculous amount of money to park after fighting the traffic, Ill get off at Grand Central and walk the seven blocks to St Bartholomew. It was a good plan. The wedding was at 4 PM, I had left upstate at 1130 to make this 244 PM train. I even had time for a hot dog on the way up from Grand Central. It took my brother two hours to get into the city from Jersey. |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1989 Upload Date: 10/14/2015 4:19:07 AM |
| Location: |
Tarrytown, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
MNCR 8375(M-3 Metropolitan) |
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224 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
M-3s |
| Description: |
The first M 3 car makes a stop on a westbound Hempstead train. Hard to believe as I post this that these cars are now almost 30 years old. I still think of the M 1s as the "new" cars!! |
| Photo Date: |
7/18/1985 Upload Date: 10/5/2014 3:57:53 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 9771(M-3 Metropolitan) |
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736 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Special train |
| Description: |
The LIRR ran a couple of extras for high powered MTA officials and others to mark the first day of electrified service on the Main Line. This is one of the trains, now returning to New York as the grand opening has been celebrated. |
| Photo Date: |
1/18/1988 Upload Date: 6/22/2015 4:43:47 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 9773(M-3 Metropolitan) |
| Views: |
675 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Coming off the branch |
| Description: |
A westbound Far Rockaway train rolls off the branch and onto the Montauk Branch at Valley Stream. It will follow the Atlantic Branch from here, reaching Jamaica via Laurelton. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/1988 Upload Date: 8/15/2015 2:02:06 AM |
| Location: |
Valley Stream, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 9815(M-3 Metropolitan) |
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265 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ronkonkoma electric |
| Description: |
The electrification to Ronkonkoma had been opened 18 months prior to this shot, and MUs were now routinely plying the Main Line east, as this train is doing, blowing past Bellerose on its way to the pine barrens. In the distance, there's another MU train, this one from Huntington. You can see why I liked coming here. |
| Photo Date: |
6/4/1989 Upload Date: 10/30/2015 4:38:31 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 9832(M-3 Metropolitan) |
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269 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Huntington train |
| Description: |
A Huntington train with a mixed set of M1's and new M3's is racing for Jamaica as it passes Bellerose on track 1. |
| Photo Date: |
9/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/14/2014 3:11:37 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 9835(M-3 Metropolitan) |
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646 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
M 3s from Hempstead |
| Description: |
The Bellerose station was served by Hempstead Branch trains. This one has just made its stop and is now waiting for the signal at Queens, as it needs to cross all the way over to track 4 to make Queens Village and Hollis on its way to Jamaica and Brooklyn. The M 3 set we are looking at was almost new in 1987. |
| Photo Date: |
3/8/1987 Upload Date: 4/20/2015 2:15:33 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 9856(M-3 Metropolitan) |
| Views: |
321 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
M 3s |
| Description: |
Bellerose was a great place to see the action on the Main Line as it crossed the Queens-Nassau county line. Besides diesel trains, there was also a lot of MU action. This train is westbound from Hempstead with a set of then new M 3 cars, about to enter the plant at Queens interlocking. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1987 Upload Date: 2/20/2012 1:01:21 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 9856(M-3 Metropolitan) |
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349 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Huntington train |
| Description: |
For the most par, off peak schedules on the Port Jefferson branch were covered by MU trains to Huntington, and diesel scoots from there east. One such is this mid day Sunday train rolling past Bellerose. |
| Photo Date: |
8/24/1986 Upload Date: 12/8/2014 1:48:33 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 9862(M-3 Metropolitan) |
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482 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MUs to Penn |
| Description: |
A Huntington train with a set of M 3's rolls through New Hyde Park as it makes its way to Jamaica and New York. |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/1991 Upload Date: 2/28/2015 4:48:58 AM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 9879(M-3 Metropolitan) |
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375 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
West Hempstead train |
| Description: |
A West Hempstead train rolls through Valley interlocking and into the station. It has come off the branch, which diverges to the left beyond Valley tower, and will connect here with Far Rockaway and Long Beach trains. West Hempstead was a poor stepchild on the west end, seeing only token service-about every two hours on weekends. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/1988 Upload Date: 8/15/2015 2:06:09 AM |
| Location: |
Valley Stream, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 9883(M-3 Metropolitan) |
| Views: |
359 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hempstead M 3 |
| Description: |
A pair of new M 3s lead this Brooklyn bound Hempstead train. It will make its stop, then wait at Queens for a westbound Huntington train before crossing over to make Queens Village and Hollis. |
| Photo Date: |
3/29/1987 Upload Date: 4/23/2015 3:37:33 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 9939(M-3 Metropolitan) |
| Views: |
338 Comments: 0 |
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