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| 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: |
1246 Comments: 3 |
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| 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: |
1229 Comments: 1 |
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| 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: |
1010 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
964 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Getting underway |
| Description: |
RF 63 is out of town and getting a roll on westbound. It will have work at Yaphank before it heads back to Pine Aire. |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1986 Upload Date: 12/7/2014 3:41:24 AM |
| Location: |
Riverhead, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
902 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling out |
| Description: |
RF 63 has made its pick up at YA siding, and is now heading out onto the main with a typical blast of Alco smoke. |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1986 Upload Date: 12/7/2014 3:49:03 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
868 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Working the siding |
| Description: |
RF 63 works the siding at Yaphank |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1986 Upload Date: 12/7/2014 3:49:49 AM |
| Location: |
Yaphank, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
761 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
All Alco meet |
| Description: |
The origination point for RF 62, the Riverhead freight, was at a small station in Pine Aire in Suffolk county. The train would switch its cars and a local customer in between rush hour commuter trains, clearing up for each one til the morning rush was over. Here we see RF 62 in the hole for an early morning westbound behind FA 2 606 |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1986 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:46:16 PM |
| Location: |
Pine Aire, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 606(Power Car) |
| Views: |
1039 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Hooping them up |
| Description: |
The operator at KO block station in Ronkonkoma hands up orders to westbound freight YF 63. C 420's were typical power for this train. Date is approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1986 Upload Date: 8/19/1986 12:00:00 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
1221 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
RF 7 west |
| Description: |
RF 7 works on the Montauk branch at Fresh Pond. We see it passing under the Conrail line from Hell Gate Bridge, where interchange traffic is exchanged between the LIRR and CR. The dwarf signal protects the connecting track from the Bay Ridge line, which curves sharply off to the left out of the picture, from trains leaving Fresh Pond yard. The train is about to pass Pond tower, and then will roll under the NYCTA Myrtle Av line, at the time the M train. |
| Photo Date: |
10/14/1986 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:14:31 PM |
| Location: |
Fresh Pond, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
812 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Almost home |
| Description: |
RF 63 passes through Ronkonkoma as it hustles to Pine Aire to get out of the way of the evening rush. The electrification project is progressing. The ties have been replaced, and third rail ties-note every fifth tie is extended-are now installed. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:52:04 AM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
399 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Made it |
| Description: |
RF 63 is tied up at Pine Aire. The same power will run west later this evening as RF 91 to Fresh Pond. The electrification project is making its mark here, as the third rail has been installed. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:55:06 AM |
| Location: |
Pine Aire, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 229(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
369 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Meeting the freight |
| Description: |
An eastbound Ronkonkoma train makes its Pine Aire stop as RF 63 waits for a new crew to become RF 91 that evening. |
| Photo Date: |
10/21/1986 Upload Date: 12/16/2014 3:57:37 AM |
| Location: |
Pine Aire, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 259(GP38-2) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
484 Comments: 0 |
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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) |
| Views: |
753 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: |
709 Comments: 1 |
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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: |
261 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: |
278 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: |
227 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: |
332 Comments: 0 |
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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: |
262 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
223 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
221 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
189 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
215 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
224 Comments: 1 |
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| 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: |
164 Comments: 1 |
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| 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: |
540 Comments: 2 |
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| 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: |
739 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
765 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
209 Comments: 2 |
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| 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: |
1289 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
LI 227 |
| Description: |
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| 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: |
302 Comments: 1 |
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| 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: |
518 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
LI 227 roof view |
| Description: |
Actual date not known |
| Photo Date: |
2/1/1976 Upload Date: 1/22/2025 10:07:32 PM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tim Darnell |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
15 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
1223 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
LI 227 roof detail |
| Description: |
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| 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: |
787 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
391 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
LIRR 227 |
| Description: |
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| 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: |
860 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
716 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
13992 Comments: 2 |
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| 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 228(C420) LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
1010 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
LI 227 |
| Description: |
Actual date not known |
| Photo Date: |
7/1/1979 Upload Date: 12/27/2024 9:38:37 PM |
| Location: |
Oyster Bay, NY |
| Author: |
Tim Darnell |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
26 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
783 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
LI 227, 225 leads RF59 |
| Description: |
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| Photo Date: |
10/5/1979 Upload Date: 12/30/2024 9:09:05 PM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tim Darnell |
| Categories: |
|
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) |
| Views: |
27 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
591 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
767 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
877 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s |
| Description: |
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| 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) |
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