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| Title: |
RF 7 |
| Description: |
While waiting for the Ringling Bros train at Hunterspoint Av, RF 7 put in an appearance, coming in from Fresh Pond with cars to swap at Yard A. The mound to the right of the station track is one of the East River tunnels, its portal just beyond the shack at left center of the photo. |
| Photo Date: |
12/6/1985 Upload Date: 10/14/2014 2:41:23 AM |
| Location: |
Long Island City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 226(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
756 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
RF 91 |
| Description: |
RF 91 was the overnight westbound freight from Pine Aire to Fresh Pond, using the power that had been on RF 63 from Riverhead. Besides doing the road haul, it also worked at Hiucksville and did local switching en route. Tonights train has an MP 15 leading, which occasionally happened if there was not a C 420 ready. Its about 0300, and the train is working the siding east of New Hyde Park on the westbound side, requiring the train to stop in the station while the switch is lined. I took advantage of the stop to get a shot. |
| Photo Date: |
7/10/1986 Upload Date: 12/3/2014 2:38:59 PM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 150(MP15AC) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
606 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 63 start its westbound trip |
| Description: |
RF 63, the westbound part of the turn from Pine Aire, gathers speed as it heads back toward its terminal and the end of a day switching on the east end. |
| Photo Date: |
10/7/1986 Upload Date: 10/5/2011 11:40:48 PM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 224(C420) LI 229(C420) |
| Views: |
707 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Changes coming |
| Description: |
RF 63 rolls past the Ronkonkoma station and under a bridge that has been smoked by E6, H10, G5 and K4 steam power. The whole scene will change in another 15 months when the Ronkonkoma electrification project is complete. Already the earthwork and utilities are being installed, as well as some grading. |
| Photo Date: |
10/7/1986 Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:49:29 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
796 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
RF 63 |
| Description: |
RF 63 passes under the Ronkonkoma Av bridge in the late afternoon sun. Work is underway for the Main Line electrification, which will open in about 15 months. |
| Photo Date: |
10/19/1986 Upload Date: 10/8/2011 2:09:30 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 224(C420) LI 229(C420) |
| Views: |
666 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Museum operation |
| Description: |
No, not the Alcos, though they are getting close. The RR Museum of Long Island is adjacent to the Riverhead station. The power from RF 62 passes while working the team tracks there, in view of one of LIRRs unique double deckers. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:15:22 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 224(C420) LI 229(C420) |
| Views: |
456 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pouring it on for Pine Aire |
| Description: |
RF 63 rolls under the old bridge at Ronkonkoma as it hustles home to Pine Aire. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:19:01 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 224(C420) LI 229(C420) |
| Views: |
550 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 62 nears Riverhead |
| Description: |
RF 62 is almost to where it will do most of its work today, passing Calverton, one of the more unremarked points on the LIRR. There is not much here at this time, just some relay rail. There was once a station, now long gone. Trains quit stopping here in the 70s. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:19:39 AM |
| Location: |
Calverton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
417 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Through the pine barrens |
| Description: |
RF 62 roll through the pine barrens west of Riverhead as it approaches its days objective. Fall color is starting to show on this late Octover day. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:21:30 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
515 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Broad view |
| Description: |
There was a spot near Yaphank station where you could get an across the field shot of the LIRR. It is here that we see RF 62s power, the usual pair of C 420s. I caught up to him here after chasing some commuter trains and RF 65 near Farmingdale. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:23:38 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
451 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Past the station |
| Description: |
The east end of Riverhead station as RF 62s power passes |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:16:55 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
615 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working the team track |
| Description: |
RF 63 works the team track at Riverhead as its train sits on the lead |
| Photo Date: |
3/10/1987 Upload Date: 6/20/2011 2:06:42 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
576 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 62 |
| Description: |
RF 62 behind the typical pair of C 420s passes the station site of Calverton, just west of Riverhead, on the Main Line. |
| Photo Date: |
3/16/1987 Upload Date: 11/12/2011 10:56:33 PM |
| Location: |
Calverton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
443 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working the team track |
| Description: |
Once a common sight in many towns, the team track had become a rare feature. Riverhead still had one(as did Queens Village, though I dont recall seeing any cars spotted there in the 80s), here being switched by RF 62s C 420s. The crews on this train did not get radios, so hand signals were the standard way for the trainmen to communicate. It was a real lesson in old style railroading. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/1987 Upload Date: 4/18/2015 3:52:51 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
367 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 63 and a relic |
| Description: |
RF 63#passes the Riverhead station and restoration project G 5 39 as it heads down to work the team track. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/1987 Upload Date: 4/21/2015 3:44:13 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 39(4-6-2) |
| Views: |
678 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Farm like scene |
| Description: |
The east end was once farm land, but by the late 80s, much of it had been sold off for development as real estate values became greater than the agricultural value. Manorville seemed to have escaped that trend even in the late 80s, as this scene of a red house in a rural setting shows. RF 63 rolls past behind the usual pair of C 420s. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/1987 Upload Date: 4/18/2015 3:56:55 AM |
| Location: |
Manorville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
247 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Potatoes!! |
| Description: |
RF 63 gets ready to go west as it sits in front of what was once one of LIRRs prime traffic sources-the Suffolk Potato Exchange. The LIRR at the end of WW II would ship 110 car produce blocks from Suffolk County, one of Americas main potato producers. Now it all goes by truck, whats left of it. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/1987 Upload Date: 4/18/2015 4:05:06 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
304 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
View from the bridge |
| Description: |
In this case, William Floyd Parkway. RF 63 rolls under a local road heading back to Pine Aire. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/1987 Upload Date: 4/18/2015 4:09:18 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
343 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Old station |
| Description: |
Not quite yet, but it will be soon. The electrification project is progressing, as evidenced by the new signal bridge in the foreground. RF 63 passes the station which will be replaced once the new facility is built. It will open next January. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1987 Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:33:19 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
259 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 63 with two cabooses |
| Description: |
RF 63 is seen at Yaphank with a pair of bay window cabin cars. |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1987 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 7:52:02 PM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
447 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Double your fun |
| Description: |
RF 63 has a pair of bay window cabooses, giving the brakeman lining the switch at far left a choice of accommodations. No parlor cars for the crew, though!! |
| Photo Date: |
4/20/1987 Upload Date: 4/23/2015 1:24:44 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
276 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Stone to Holtsville |
| Description: |
RF 56, a weekend train that ran the Main Line, rolls through B Towers interlocking with 35 cars of stone for Prema Asphalt in Holtsville. They were a big seasonal customer on the LIRR, getting several trainloads of stone per week from a quarry in Connecticut via the P&W. The track in the foreground is the Central Branch, which runs to a connection with the Babylon Branch just west of the Babylon station. It is used by RF 64/65 and a host of commuter trains. |
| Photo Date: |
8/29/1987 Upload Date: 5/25/2015 1:50:54 AM |
| Location: |
Bethpage, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
416 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
RF 56 |
| Description: |
Weekend train RF 56 rolls through the east side of Hicksville on the Main Line on its way east with 35 cars of stone for Prema Asphalt. |
| Photo Date: |
8/29/1987 Upload Date: 5/25/2015 1:52:12 AM |
| Location: |
Hicksville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 223(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
418 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 62 |
| Description: |
One of the more obscure places on the Island is Calverton. Location of a National Cemetery, it is a backwater on the LIRR. RF 62 passes en route to Riverhead. |
| Photo Date: |
11/22/1987 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:25:06 PM |
| Location: |
Calverton, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) |
| Views: |
387 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
RF 57 |
| Description: |
A short RF 57 works past Bellerose as it makes its way from Hicksville into Fresh Pond on a Sunday afternoon. |
| Photo Date: |
11/22/1987 Upload Date: 6/17/2015 2:34:23 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 154(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
600 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Tucked in |
| Description: |
RF 57s caboose is tucked in behind the power as it passes the station. |
| Photo Date: |
11/22/1987 Upload Date: 6/17/2015 2:40:34 AM |
| Location: |
Bellerose, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 154(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
636 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
C420's |
| Description: |
LIRR C420's await the trip to South America at Conrail's Selkirk yard. |
| Photo Date: |
8/26/1989 Upload Date: 6/9/2007 2:12:16 AM |
| Location: |
Selkirk, NY |
| Author: |
Donald Albertson |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 228(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 222(C420) |
| Views: |
1995 Comments: 0 |
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