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Fantrip meet
Title:  Fantrip meet
Description:  The LIRR Kabin Kar Trek-a fantrip where passengers could ride in one of eight cabooses on the train-is overtaken by a Port Jeff train as they pass the team tracks.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:30:41 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 254(GP38-2) LI 609(Power Car) LI 225(C420) LI 229(C420)
Views:  624   Comments: 0
LIRR GP-38 254
Title:  LIRR GP-38 254
Description:  This is way before the Speonk yard was rebuilt
Photo Date:  9/8/1990  Upload Date: 3/17/2012 8:37:24 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 254(GP38-2)
Views:  574   Comments: 0
LIRR GP-38 254
Title:  LIRR GP-38 254
Description:  A cold winter sky fills the air as the 254 travels the LIRR Montauk Branch
Photo Date:  1/1/1991  Upload Date: 10/1/2012 7:53:15 PM
Location:  Hither Hills, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 254(GP38-2)
Views:  438   Comments: 0
LI 254
Title:  LI 254
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/20/1996  Upload Date: 11/6/2018 3:25:39 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 254(GP38-2)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
Westbound 254
Title:  Westbound 254
Description:  Westbound 254
Photo Date:  7/12/1997  Upload Date: 10/1/2012 10:26:49 PM
Location:  Great River, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 254(GP38-2)
Views:  482   Comments: 0
LI 254
Title:  LI 254
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/11/1998  Upload Date: 10/1/2018 3:13:14 PM
Location:  Port Jefferson, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 254(GP38-2) LI 260(GP38-2)
Views:  553   Comments: 1
LI 254 waiting for her next assignmemt
Title:  LI 254 waiting for her next assignmemt
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/22/1998  Upload Date: 7/2/2019 2:30:23 PM
Location:  Patchogue, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 254(GP38-2)
Views:  337   Comments: 1
LI PD tower now gone
Title:  LI PD tower now gone
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/21/1999  Upload Date: 9/30/2017 9:26:52 PM
Location:  Patchogue, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  LI 254(GP38-2)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
LI 255
Title:  LI 255
Description:  Actual date not known. 126 Instamatic photo.
Photo Date:  3/1/1976  Upload Date: 1/26/2022 8:24:10 PM
Location:  Pinelawn, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  322   Comments: 1
LI 1556, 255
Title:  LI 1556, 255
Description:  A one time lashup. Actual day not recorded.
Photo Date:  3/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/1/2020 11:34:29 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 1556(RS3) LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  627   Comments: 1
LI 255
Title:  LI 255
Description:  Actual day not recorded.
Photo Date:  9/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/29/2020 10:26:51 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  262   Comments: 1
LIRR 255
Title:  LIRR 255
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/30/1977  Upload Date: 4/16/2009 1:37:08 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  676   Comments: 0
LI 255
Title:  LI 255
Description:  Actual date not known
Photo Date:  2/1/1980  Upload Date: 1/25/2025 10:13:28 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  85   Comments: 0
LI 255
Title:  LI 255
Description:  Actual day not recorded.
Photo Date:  2/1/1980  Upload Date: 5/15/2020 12:02:37 AM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  330   Comments: 2
LIRR 255 and an FA
Title:  LIRR 255 and an FA
Description:  Some of the crews did not like running from the FA cab units, and where they had a chance, would wye the GP 38s and use them as leaders. Heres one such example at Mineola.
Photo Date:  4/16/1983  Upload Date: 11/18/2011 1:05:06 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2) LI 608(Power Car)
Views:  1223   Comments: 0
LI 255, 269
Title:  LI 255, 269
Description:  Actual date not known
Photo Date:  11/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/25/2025 10:13:24 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2) LI 269(GP38-2)
Views:  116   Comments: 0
Up the branch
Title:  Up the branch
Description:  An Oyster Bay train heads up the branch, passing Nassau tower
Photo Date:  6/5/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 3:33:19 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2) LI 164(MP15AC)
Views:  814   Comments: 0
Parlor car
Title:  Parlor car
Description:  The LIRR still ran a number of parlor cars in the 80s. These were noted by their red stripe, vs blue on all other cars. Most ran on the Montauk Branch-there was an all parlor train on weekends-but there were also a couple that ran as subscription cars on the Port Jeff and Oyster Bay lines. This one is trailing 255 on an Oyster Bay train.
Photo Date:  6/5/1984  Upload Date: 6/30/2014 3:41:22 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  908   Comments: 0
Headed for Ronkonkoma
Title:  Headed for Ronkonkoma
Description:  Another night, another train out the main line.
Photo Date:  6/19/1986  Upload Date: 11/22/2014 2:53:52 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  479   Comments: 0
Not too many beachgoers today
Title:  Not too many beachgoers today
Description:  There are not likely too many beachgoers today on east end train 4012 due to the cloudy weather. It still has its full complement of coaches and parlors to take the weekenders back to New York tomorrow morning on its return.
Photo Date:  8/9/1987  Upload Date: 5/23/2015 3:40:57 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 274(GP38-2) LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  640   Comments: 0
October east enders
Title:  October east enders
Description:  The summer schedule of parlor equipped trains lasted well into the fall, usually til late October. We see a swelled consist behind the usual pair of GP 38s on this first weekend of October. A Hempstead train is coming up track 4 in the distance, and will make the stop here at Bellerose.
Photo Date:  10/4/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 1:46:14 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 257(GP38-2) LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  658   Comments: 0
Afternoon light
Title:  Afternoon light
Description:  An eastbound Port Jefferson train gets the glint of the late day sun in this afternoon shot at New Hyde Park.
Photo Date:  3/7/1988  Upload Date: 6/30/2015 4:18:17 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
Sun glow
Title:  Sun glow
Description:  A Patchogue scoot stops at Oakdale in the late afternoon sun.
Photo Date:  5/7/1988  Upload Date: 7/16/2015 3:04:53 AM
Location:  Oakdale, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  350   Comments: 0
LI 255
Title:  LI 255
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/19/1994  Upload Date: 8/6/2019 4:51:50 PM
Location:  Port Jefferson, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  LI 255(GP38-2)
Views:  412   Comments: 0
LI 256
Title:  LI 256
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/5/2020 10:45:03 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  389   Comments: 1
LI 256
Title:  LI 256
Description:  Time exposure of station stop.
Photo Date:  7/1/1976  Upload Date: 3/4/2009 7:47:53 PM
Location:  West Hampton Dunes, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  616   Comments: 0
LI 256 EB on an Oyster Bay train
Title:  LI 256 EB on an Oyster Bay train
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/1/1979  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 9:45:45 PM
Location:  Merillon Ave., NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  230   Comments: 2
LI 256 sits where the museum grounds are now.
Title:  LI 256 sits where the museum grounds are now.
Description:  Actual date not known
Photo Date:  6/1/1981  Upload Date: 1/22/2025 9:21:10 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  98   Comments: 0
Returning From Morris Park Elephant style
Title:  Returning From Morris Park Elephant style
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/16/1981  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 9:04:17 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  921   Comments: 0
LIRR Gp-38s 256 & 277
Title:  LIRR Gp-38s 256 & 277
Description:  The 4 stacks in the background is part of the ventalation system for the Queens-Midtown Tunnel (auto tunnel)
Photo Date:  11/16/1981  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 9:16:38 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  768   Comments: 0
Surfs up!!
Title:  Surfs up!!
Description:  Long Island for a time painted their GP38s witha red stripe. The inspiration was their Bicentennial unit, 252, which was painted that way when it arrived in 1976. Eventually all the big road power got the treatment, which only lasted a few years.
Photo Date:  7/12/1983  Upload Date: 11/23/2013 2:00:24 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  537   Comments: 0
EMD MP15AC
Title:  EMD MP15AC
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 8/28/2008 3:52:06 PM
Location:  Brentwood, NY
Author:  Chris.J Allen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  809   Comments: 0
LI 107-607-276-256
Title:  LI 107-607-276-256
Description:  Actual date not known, 256 still has a red stripe after red was dropped from schemes.
Photo Date:  1/1/1984  Upload Date: 2/15/2025 8:51:09 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 107(SW1001) LI 607(Power Car) LI 276(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
Ronkonkoma train east
Title:  Ronkonkoma train east
Description:  A Ronkonkoma train has just cleared Queens and accelerates past the Bellrose station
Photo Date:  5/15/1984  Upload Date: 7/2/2014 3:55:05 PM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  642   Comments: 0
Ronkonkoma train
Title:  Ronkonkoma train
Description:  A Ronkonkoma train makes its Mineola stop at will shortly be headed east.
Photo Date:  6/11/1986  Upload Date: 11/22/2014 2:47:49 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
LIRR 256
Title:  LIRR 256
Description:  One of the more obscure locations on the LIRR is Cold Spring Harbor, between Syosset and Huntington. Here we see a westbound Port Jeff train rolling through the station. This is one of the steeper grades on the LIRR, 1.4%. In steam days, even the K4's would struggle here.
Photo Date:  8/12/1986  Upload Date: 11/18/2011 1:11:01 AM
Location:  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  599   Comments: 0
Early morning to work
Title:  Early morning to work
Description:  A westbound pushes toward New York with a train full of commuters eager to get to work.
Photo Date:  10/21/1986  Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:47:32 AM
Location:  Farmingdale, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  442   Comments: 0
4012 in low sun
Title:  4012 in low sun
Description:  The winter is here, and 4012 bathes in the low sun, even with its mid day departure from Jamaica.
Photo Date:  1/11/1987  Upload Date: 12/29/2014 4:05:56 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  339   Comments: 0
Winter time 4012
Title:  Winter time 4012
Description:  Unlike its summer counterpart, the winter edition of train 4012, which ran from Jamaica to Montauk on Sunday afternoon.!This time of year, it was usually 8 or 9 cars behind a single unit, unlike the beach season, when the consist would swell to 12 or 14 cars behind a pair of GP 38-2s, usually back to back.
Photo Date:  2/8/1987  Upload Date: 4/17/2015 1:48:52 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  346   Comments: 1
Big station
Title:  Big station
Description:  One town that had a much bigger station than seemed necessary for the traffic was Farmingdale, with its three stories and brick construction. By the 1980s, there was an agent for the morning rush, and mostly an empty building.
Photo Date:  4/16/1987  Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:42:08 AM
Location:  Farmingdale, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  504   Comments: 0
Ronkonkoma train
Title:  Ronkonkoma train
Description:  About an hour after 4012 rolled through, this Ronkonkoma train-4252, I believe-came east with a more standard set of a single GP 38, six or seven cars, and an FA(most of the time). Always fun to watch it bounce through the switches at Queens. In the background, RF 57 heads down the middle track toward Jamaica and Fresh Pond.
Photo Date:  8/16/1987  Upload Date: 5/23/2015 3:35:50 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  308   Comments: 0
Pushing at the new station
Title:  Pushing at the new station
Description:  A westbound Ronkonkma train is pushed toward Jamaica at the new platforms in Bethpage.
Photo Date:  10/29/1987  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 4:13:13 AM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  332   Comments: 0
Long train for winter
Title:  Long train for winter
Description:  Train 4012 was the mid day Sunday Montauk train, and usually ran long, as it was used to position equipment to accommondate returning weekenders. In winter it had no parlors, but could still run ten cars. We see it passing the station as it runs full out for Hicksville and the Central Branch.
Photo Date:  11/22/1987  Upload Date: 6/17/2015 2:42:54 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  366   Comments: 0
High dollar
Title:  High dollar
Description:  There is one train that carries a parlor on the Oyster Bay branch, a subscription car reserved by a group of well to do commuters who use it as a private club. It is waiting out the weekend here in the Oyster Bay yard.
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 6/27/2015 3:48:59 AM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  466   Comments: 0
A pair and parlors
Title:  A pair and parlors
Description:  This Montauk train has a parlor car ahead of the coaches, but the two GP 38s will make easy work of the run out east.
Photo Date:  5/7/1990  Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:51:33 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 263(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  542   Comments: 0
LI 256 ready to depart the station
Title:  LI 256 ready to depart the station
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/1993  Upload Date: 8/8/2019 3:12:46 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  327   Comments: 1
Ready for the Sunday Afternoon run to NYC
Title:  Ready for the Sunday Afternoon run to NYC
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/1993  Upload Date: 8/8/2019 3:13:15 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LI 262(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  535   Comments: 1
LI 256 and 262
Title:  LI 256 and 262
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/1993  Upload Date: 8/8/2019 3:13:29 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2) LI 262(GP38-2)
Views:  479   Comments: 1
LI 263
Title:  LI 263
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/1993  Upload Date: 8/8/2019 3:14:29 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 263(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  405   Comments: 1
Making Up The Trains For The Sunday Rush From The Hamptons to NYC
Title:  Making Up The Trains For The Sunday Rush From The Hamptons to NYC
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/20/1995  Upload Date: 10/1/2012 9:16:22 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 263(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  712   Comments: 0


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