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| Title: |
LI 227 |
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| Photo Date: |
10/18/1986 Upload Date: 9/23/2017 12:30:56 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
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| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) |
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564 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
1065 Comments: 1 |
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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) |
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694 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: |
662 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Passing the potato exchange |
| Description: |
RF 63 passes the Long Island potato exchange. Potatoes were once a significant source of traffic on the LIRR, but have long since gone to trucks by this date. |
| Photo Date: |
2/3/1987 Upload Date: 6/20/2011 2:01:26 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
662 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Under the bridge |
| Description: |
RF 63 passes under an old local bridge as seen from the William Floyd Parkway. This is one of the more rural scenes on Long Island at the time. |
| Photo Date: |
2/3/1987 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:16:18 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
671 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Rolling for Pine Aire |
| Description: |
RF 63 rolls west through the pine barrens approaching Medford on a snowy afternoon. |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1987 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:04:05 AM |
| Location: |
Medford, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
500 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Starting west |
| Description: |
RF 63 has just left Riverhead and is working its way to a pick up at Yaphank and hopefully no rush hour delays getting back to Pine Aire. |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1987 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:08:18 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
539 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Sign of days gone by |
| Description: |
The building behind RF 63 is the Long Island Potato Exchange, once a huge deal on the Island. As late as the 1950s, solid trains of potatoes would be sent west from Riverhead. Better roads and higher real estate values meant fewer potatoes, and most of them now go by truck. Imagine three or four C 420s and 90 cars of potatoes-what a sight!! |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1987 Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:11:33 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
412 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: |
561 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: |
428 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: |
355 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: |
631 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: |
230 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: |
288 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: |
328 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Back in the zone |
| Description: |
RF 63 passes the block limit signal at KO, entering the commuter zone. Note the third rail in place. It is now nine months til electric trains will run here from New York and Brooklyn |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/1987 Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:11:32 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
239 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Doing what Alcos do |
| Description: |
RF 63 gets started from its pick up at Yaphank with gusto. Hell need to hustle if hes going to get his window ahead of the afternoon rush once he gets to Ronkonkoma. Pour it on!! |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/1987 Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:15:34 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
265 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Just passing through |
| Description: |
Youd never know it to see the place now, but Manorville was once an important junction on the LIRR. There was a branch here that split from the Main Line, connecting to the Montauk Branch at Eastport. It was commonly used by trains going to the Hamptons and east. It was abandoned in 1949; Manorville was never the same. RF 63 passes through without even breaking its pace. |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/1987 Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:22:30 AM |
| Location: |
Manorville, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
211 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working YA |
| Description: |
RF 62s caboose is seen in the distance as the train gets underway after setting out a cut of cars for pick up on the return trip. YA block station is at right. |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/1987 Upload Date: 4/21/2015 3:46:56 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
315 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Old station |
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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: |
243 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: |
429 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: |
253 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
365 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Headed for Fresh Pond |
| Description: |
RF 57 has finished its work for the day and is headed through Floral Park on its way to tie up. |
| Photo Date: |
1/10/1988 Upload Date: 6/24/2015 4:19:24 AM |
| Location: |
Floral Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
318 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Working the siding |
| Description: |
RF 57 is working the printer at New Hyde Park, switching cars in and out on the long siding there. Hell spend 30 minutes going back and forth before getting everything placed and pulled. |
| Photo Date: |
1/10/1988 Upload Date: 6/24/2015 4:21:52 AM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
391 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Walking it back |
| Description: |
RF 57s conductor is walking back with the shove to complete the work at the customer. He will shortly get permission out on the main to run to Fresh Pond. |
| Photo Date: |
1/10/1988 Upload Date: 6/24/2015 4:25:32 AM |
| Location: |
New Hyde Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 225(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
283 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Alcos by the coal dock |
| Description: |
A pair of C 420s, now stored since the Ronkonkoma electrification rendered newer diesels available for freight service, pose by the concrete coal dock at Morris Park shop. The Alcos will have a brief reprieve, and return to service for a few more years. The coaling tower has, however, seen its last steam engine. The tracks in the foreground are the Atlantic Branch, which are coming out of the Atlantic Av tunnel, where they have been since just east of Nostrand Av station in Brooklyn. The cars beyond the Alcos are part of the alcohol train, and are equipped to spray an alcohol based chemical on the third rail to keep it from getting iced up in winter. |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1988 Upload Date: 6/27/2015 4:31:17 AM |
| Location: |
Morris Park, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
243 Comments: 0 |
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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 |
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| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 228(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 222(C420) |
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1949 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
LL 227 |
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| Photo Date: |
6/10/1995 Upload Date: 6/10/1995 12:00:00 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
200 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting at the old Ronkonkoma Railroad Station |
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| Photo Date: |
6/10/1995 Upload Date: 11/6/2018 3:43:04 PM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
183 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Waiting for new orders |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/10/1995 Upload Date: 11/6/2018 3:43:49 PM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Ribhard Gorddard |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
167 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Eastbound Alcoa hauling a Frieght |
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| Photo Date: |
6/10/1995 Upload Date: 11/6/2018 3:44:36 PM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
212 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
LI 227 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
6/10/1995 Upload Date: 11/6/2018 3:45:09 PM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
169 Comments: 0 |
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