|
| 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: |
761 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
653 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Pushing to Jamaica |
| Description: |
A Ronkonkoma train has just made its pick up at Pine Aire. Now RF 62, on the sidiing, can get back to making up its train for the trip east. |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1986 Upload Date: 12/9/2014 2:25:14 AM |
| Location: |
Pine Aire, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 263(GP38-2) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
390 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
894 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Hooping them up |
| Description: |
The operator at KO block station in Ronkonkoma hands up orders to westbound freight RF 63. C 420's were typical power for this train. Date is approximate. |
| Photo Date: |
8/19/1986 Upload Date: 1/23/2011 10:13:10 PM |
| Location: |
Ronkonkoma, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
1122 Comments: 2 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
715 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
346 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
308 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
351 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
Quiet at Queens Village |
| Description: |
RF 11, with consecutively numbered C 420's, cools its heels at the Queens Village station as it waits for a late night parade of passenger trains. There will be an eastbound Montauk train, followed by an Oyster Bay train. Once they clear, the freight will get the board to go east to Pine Aire with 64 cars and cabin #64. Tonights train is unusual, having three C 420s. This train almost always got two units. |
| Photo Date: |
1/15/1987 Upload Date: 5/22/2011 3:01:00 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Night,Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 228(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
850 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
651 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
609 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
204 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
241 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
191 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
291 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| 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: |
218 Comments: 0 |
|
|
|
| Title: |
LI 226 |
| Description: |
Coming in for service at The Park |
| Photo Date: |
6/24/1995 Upload Date: 6/21/2019 3:34:46 PM |
| Location: |
Thendara, NY |
| Author: |
Richard Gorddard |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 226(C420) |
| Views: |
93 Comments: 1 |
|
|
|
