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Owner: Long Island Rail Road Company
Model:Alco C420Built As:LI 227 (C420)
Serial Number:6006-06Order No:21304
Frame Number:6006-06Built:8/1968
Other locos with this serial:  LI 227(C420) LIRR 227(C420)
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LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  A Port Jeff branch train of Ping Pong coaches makes a station stop at Syosset. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  2/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/20/2021 8:37:52 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  175   Comments: 0
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  A westbound "Smithtown turn" passes Landia station. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/11/2021 9:27:48 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  151   Comments: 0
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  Passing Landia station westbound with a train of ping pong coaches.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/11/2021 9:28:21 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  128   Comments: 0
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  Long Island C420 227 shoves a Port Jefferson branch train through Divide interlocking east of the depot at Hicksville. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/11/2021 9:38:01 PM
Location:  Hicksville, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  166   Comments: 0
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  A westbound push-pull consist works upgrade on the Port Jefferson branch near Syosset. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/24/2021 6:28:14 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
LI 227 runs west lite
Title:  LI 227 runs west lite
Description:  Actual date not known. 126 Instamatic photo.
Photo Date:  1/1/1974  Upload Date: 1/21/2022 9:37:48 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  175   Comments: 1
LI 227 lays over for the weekend
Title:  LI 227 lays over for the weekend
Description:  Actual date not known. 126 Instamatic photo.
Photo Date:  11/10/1974  Upload Date: 2/8/2022 10:02:55 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  108   Comments: 1
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  Instamatic 126 slide actual date not recorded.
Photo Date:  3/7/1975  Upload Date: 2/9/2020 8:25:54 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  483   Comments: 2
LI 227 heads west lite
Title:  LI 227 heads west lite
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/3/1975  Upload Date: 6/2/2021 11:49:34 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  190   Comments: 2
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  Paint was so fresh, and they forgot to remove the masking tape! Exact date not known.
Photo Date:  7/20/1975  Upload Date: 6/17/2016 12:48:41 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  684   Comments: 0
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  Just arrived, 227 was just repainted!
Photo Date:  7/20/1975  Upload Date: 6/24/2016 11:06:20 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  710   Comments: 0
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  Very fresh paint, just out of the shops. There was still masking tape left on between the yellow & the blue!
Photo Date:  7/20/1975  Upload Date: 6/21/2021 10:18:35 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  151   Comments: 2
LIRR 227
Title:  LIRR 227
Description:  Two LIRR C420s make a "BAR Geep sandwich" on an eastbound Montauk train at Bay Shore, NY.
Photo Date:  8/3/1975  Upload Date: 2/24/2006 12:44:57 PM
Location:  Bay Shore, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  1239   Comments: 2
LI 219
Title:  LI 219
Description:  Typical Morris Park early afternoon scene, before they left to cover Eastbound rush hour trains.
Photo Date:  11/1/1975  Upload Date: 11/15/2009 5:35:39 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 219(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 215(C420)
Views:  1319   Comments: 0
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  Actual date not known
Photo Date:  1/1/1976  Upload Date: 9/6/2024 11:30:23 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  11   Comments: 1
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/2/2020 10:14:51 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  246   Comments: 1
LI 251
Title:  LI 251
Description:  Newly arrived, note the air filter box. Actual day not recorded.
Photo Date:  1/29/1976  Upload Date: 3/31/2020 11:02:28 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 251(GP38-2) LI 227(C420)
Views:  417   Comments: 0
LI 227 idles overnight in the yard
Title:  LI 227 idles overnight in the yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1976  Upload Date: 9/6/2024 11:29:01 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  22   Comments: 2
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  Night train waiting to head west to Jamaica, with an ex-KCS coach
Photo Date:  4/1/1976  Upload Date: 12/1/2004 12:11:13 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  1161   Comments: 2
LI 227 roof detail
Title:  LI 227 roof detail
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/30/2012 12:01:56 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  729   Comments: 0
LI 227 in fresh paint
Title:  LI 227 in fresh paint
Description:  Actual day not recorded.
Photo Date:  10/1/1976  Upload Date: 5/3/2020 12:25:43 AM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  421   Comments: 1
LI 227 in fresh paint
Title:  LI 227 in fresh paint
Description:  Actual day not recorded.
Photo Date:  10/1/1976  Upload Date: 5/3/2020 12:25:41 AM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  341   Comments: 1
LIRR 227
Title:  LIRR 227
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/30/1977  Upload Date: 4/16/2009 1:37:06 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  800   Comments: 0
Still working both sides
Title:  Still working both sides
Description:  A C420 is in the midst of its train on RF 7, passing Jamaica station, as a passenger train passes behind another C 420. By this time, the LIRR had all of its 28 GP38-2s in service, and it was becoming unusual to see an Alco on a passenger train. This was quite a catch.
Photo Date:  4/10/1978  Upload Date: 12/2/2016 4:04:18 AM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  831   Comments: 0
Monkey in the middle
Title:  Monkey in the middle
Description:  The LIRR was not your typical freight carrier. Their focus was primarily commuters, and they are the busiest commuter road in the US, with 90% of their revenue coming from passengers. Their freight operations were largely an afterthought under the MTA, and could get kind of odd. One such unusual practice was running power mid train. This facilitated switching facing point customer sidings, of which there were quite a few. Thus we find RF 7 with C 420 227 working from the middle as it passes Jamaica station on one of the bypass tracks south of track 8.
Photo Date:  4/10/1978  Upload Date: 11/30/2016 4:53:38 AM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  663   Comments: 0
Long Island Rail Road C420 227
Title:  Long Island Rail Road C420 227
Description:  Morris Park Shops, Jamaica, New York, USA, 24 September 1978.
Photo Date:  9/24/1978  Upload Date: 9/17/2016 4:29:49 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Bill Wilcox
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  13863   Comments: 2
Morning line up
Title:  Morning line up
Description:  A set of C 420s is on the ready track at Holban Yard, ready to move out with whatever the yardmaster has put together for them. Theyll go east later in the day. Holban, a combination of HOLlis and st alBANs, sat between the two sections of Queens, in a triangle shape, bounded by the Main Line on the north, and the Montauk Branch on the south. The Montauk Branch is seen behind the power, its viaduct crossing over the eastbound Main Line and yard lead just west of the yard at a place called Hillside, where there was an abandoned station. It is used by trains going to Babylon, as well as a few diesel trains going farther east.
Photo Date:  4/26/1979  Upload Date: 11/30/2016 5:04:32 AM
Location:  Hollis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  910   Comments: 0
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  Red, white, and blue scheme, on an Oyster Bay train.
Photo Date:  8/1/1979  Upload Date: 7/13/2008 10:05:58 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  707   Comments: 0
LI 224
Title:  LI 224
Description:  Double headed C420s on a Montauk train.
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 7/13/2008 9:48:10 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  985   Comments: 0
LI 227 on RF59
Title:  LI 227 on RF59
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/5/1979  Upload Date: 5/19/2020 12:39:32 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  167   Comments: 1
LI C420 227
Title:  LI C420 227
Description:  Long Island Rail Road C420 227 at Jamaica, New York on an unknown day in June 1980, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 227 was built by Alco in August 1968 ( c/n 6006-06 ), class L-2 on the Long Island.
Photo Date:  6/1/1980  Upload Date: 3/20/2018 1:36:34 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  546   Comments: 0
LI C420 227
Title:  LI C420 227
Description:  Long Island Rail Road C420 227 at Jamaica, New York on an unknown day in June 1980, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  6/1/1980  Upload Date: 9/17/2013 11:42:06 AM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  710   Comments: 0
LIRR 227
Title:  LIRR 227
Description:  LIRR C420 227 powers a work train at Jamaica, Queens
Photo Date:  6/23/1982  Upload Date: 1/27/2008 1:17:00 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Donald Albertson
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  821   Comments: 0
Freight power
Title:  Freight power
Description:  The power for the freights running from Holban Yard often sat out on a ready track along the main line. At that time, C420s were the usual power on the road trains, with MP15s handling the lighter work. Heres a pair of Centuries and an MP15 waiting for their next trip east in the evening.
Photo Date:  7/12/1983  Upload Date: 11/23/2013 1:57:31 AM
Location:  Hillside, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) LI 159(MP15AC)
Views:  1046   Comments: 0
Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Title:  Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 8/28/2008 3:39:09 PM
Location:  Central Islip, NY
Author:  Chris.J Allen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  866   Comments: 1
Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Title:  Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 8/28/2008 3:47:35 PM
Location:  Central Islip, NY
Author:  Chris.J Allen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  825   Comments: 0
ALOC C420
Title:  ALOC C420
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 8/28/2008 3:42:29 PM
Location:  Central Islip, NY
Author:  Chris.J Allen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  820   Comments: 0
Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Title:  Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 8/28/2008 3:44:34 PM
Location:  Central Islip, NY
Author:  Chris.J Allen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  794   Comments: 0
Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Title:  Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 8/28/2008 3:46:08 PM
Location:  Central Islip, NY
Author:  Chris.J Allen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  803   Comments: 0
Holban power
Title:  Holban power
Description:  A set of power waiting to go out sits on the ready track at Holban Yard.
Photo Date:  9/13/1983  Upload Date: 11/25/2013 1:36:20 AM
Location:  Hillside, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  1052   Comments: 2
LIRR 227
Title:  LIRR 227
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/2/1984  Upload Date: 4/1/2008 9:40:08 AM
Location:  Sunnyside, NY
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  1441   Comments: 0
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description:  Eastbound Frieght - The area around the track looks totally different today
Photo Date:  7/12/1986  Upload Date: 12/25/2012 10:03:30 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  948   Comments: 1
No room
Title:  No room
Description:  A westbound train from Ronkonkoma rolls into Pine Aire station while RF62 looks on from the siding. An eastbound train waits for the westbound to clear. No room at the inn this morning. In an hour, it will be empty.
Photo Date:  8/10/1986  Upload Date: 12/7/2014 4:38:09 AM
Location:  Pine Aire, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 172(MP15AC) LI 161(MP15AC) LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  1381   Comments: 0
Mixed meet
Title:  Mixed meet
Description:  A GP 38 powered commuter train meets RF 63 at DK
Photo Date:  8/12/1986  Upload Date: 6/20/2011 1:56:45 AM
Location:  Deer Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) LI 250(GP38-2)
Views:  1084   Comments: 1
Switching the team track
Title:  Switching the team track
Description:  RF 63 switches the team track at Riverhead.
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 6/20/2011 1:59:00 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  1153   Comments: 3
Ground work underway
Title:  Ground work underway
Description:  The prep work for the Ronkonkoma electrification is underway as RF 62 rolls into Ronkonkoma. The electrified line will open in about 16 months, on Jan 18 1988. The C 420s will hang on another few years after that.
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 12/9/2014 2:13:21 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  832   Comments: 0
Switching
Title:  Switching
Description:  RF 62 often did extensive switching at Riverhead where there were several sidings and an active team track. Here the power backs down to a hitch with a boxcar as the rest of the train sits on the main. This train did not have radios for the crews, and all moves were coordinated by hand signals.
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 10:51:39 PM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  1143   Comments: 1
Made it back
Title:  Made it back
Description:  RF 63 is in the siding at Pine Aire, having made its Riverhead turn and and upstream trip against the tide of Ronkonkoma bound commuters. Its power will become RF 91 to Fresh Pond later tonight.
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 12/9/2014 2:15:15 AM
Location:  Pine Aire, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  874   Comments: 0
Headed west
Title:  Headed west
Description:  RF 63 has completed switching in Riverhead and is ready to work back to Pine Aire.
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:09:01 PM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  918   Comments: 0
Meeting an eastbound
Title:  Meeting an eastbound
Description:  The challenge for RF 62/63 was to get out to Riverhead, do whatever work it had to get done along the way, and get back to Pine Aire in time to beat the rush hour. They usually made it, though would start to run up against the leading edge of the rush hour parade as they got west of Ronkonkoma. Heres RF 63 meeting train 254 behind class unit 250 at Deer Park. Almost home.
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 12/7/2014 3:39:12 AM
Location:  Deer Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) LI 250(GP38-2)
Views:  871   Comments: 0


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