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RF 63 start its westbound trip
Title:  RF 63 start its westbound trip
Description:  RF 63, the westbound part of the turn from Pine Aire, gathers speed as it heads back toward its terminal and the end of a day switching on the east end.
Photo Date:  10/7/1986  Upload Date: 10/5/2011 11:40:48 PM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  LI 224(C420) LI 229(C420)
Views:  721   Comments: 0
Changes coming
Title:  Changes coming
Description:  RF 63 rolls past the Ronkonkoma station and under a bridge that has been smoked by E6, H10, G5 and K4 steam power. The whole scene will change in another 15 months when the Ronkonkoma electrification project is complete. Already the earthwork and utilities are being installed, as well as some grading.
Photo Date:  10/7/1986  Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:49:29 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  810   Comments: 1
RF 63
Title:  RF 63
Description:  RF 63 passes under the Ronkonkoma Av bridge in the late afternoon sun. Work is underway for the Main Line electrification, which will open in about 15 months.
Photo Date:  10/19/1986  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 2:09:30 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  LI 224(C420) LI 229(C420)
Views:  677   Comments: 0
Museum operation
Title:  Museum operation
Description:  No, not the Alcos, though they are getting close. The RR Museum of Long Island is adjacent to the Riverhead station. The power from RF 62 passes while working the team tracks there, in view of one of LIRRs unique double deckers.
Photo Date:  10/21/1986  Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:15:22 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 224(C420) LI 229(C420)
Views:  466   Comments: 0
Pouring it on for Pine Aire
Title:  Pouring it on for Pine Aire
Description:  RF 63 rolls under the old bridge at Ronkonkoma as it hustles home to Pine Aire.
Photo Date:  10/21/1986  Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:19:01 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  LI 224(C420) LI 229(C420)
Views:  564   Comments: 0
RF 62 nears Riverhead
Title:  RF 62 nears Riverhead
Description:  RF 62 is almost to where it will do most of its work today, passing Calverton, one of the more unremarked points on the LIRR. There is not much here at this time, just some relay rail. There was once a station, now long gone. Trains quit stopping here in the 70s.
Photo Date:  10/21/1986  Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:19:39 AM
Location:  Calverton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  427   Comments: 0
Through the pine barrens
Title:  Through the pine barrens
Description:  RF 62 roll through the pine barrens west of Riverhead as it approaches its days objective. Fall color is starting to show on this late Octover day.
Photo Date:  10/21/1986  Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:21:30 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  525   Comments: 0
Broad view
Title:  Broad view
Description:  There was a spot near Yaphank station where you could get an across the field shot of the LIRR. It is here that we see RF 62s power, the usual pair of C 420s. I caught up to him here after chasing some commuter trains and RF 65 near Farmingdale.
Photo Date:  10/21/1986  Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:23:38 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  458   Comments: 1
Past the station
Title:  Past the station
Description:  The east end of Riverhead station as RF 62s power passes
Photo Date:  10/21/1986  Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:16:55 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  626   Comments: 0
Working the team track
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:  582   Comments: 0
RF 62
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:  454   Comments: 0
Working the team track
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:  381   Comments: 0
RF 63 and a relic
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:  700   Comments: 0
Farm like scene
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:  253   Comments: 0
Potatoes!!
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:  312   Comments: 1
View from the bridge
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:  349   Comments: 0
Old station
Title:  Old station
Description:  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:  268   Comments: 0
RF 63 with two cabooses
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:  456   Comments: 0
Double your fun
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:  286   Comments: 1
RF 62
Title:  RF 62
Description:  One of the more obscure places on the Island is Calverton. Location of a National Cemetery, it is a backwater on the LIRR. RF 62 passes en route to Riverhead.
Photo Date:  11/22/1987  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:25:06 PM
Location:  Calverton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  397   Comments: 0
RF 57
Title:  RF 57
Description:  A short RF 57 works past Bellerose as it makes its way from Hicksville into Fresh Pond on a Sunday afternoon.
Photo Date:  11/22/1987  Upload Date: 6/17/2015 2:34:23 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  629   Comments: 0
Tucked in
Title:  Tucked in
Description:  RF 57s caboose is tucked in behind the power as it passes the station.
Photo Date:  11/22/1987  Upload Date: 6/17/2015 2:40:34 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  652   Comments: 1
LIRR 225
Title:  LIRR 225
Description:  Westbound passenger train on the Port Jefferson branch arrives in Kings Park. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/7/2007 8:42:38 PM
Location:  Kings Park, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  981   Comments: 0
LIRR 225
Title:  LIRR 225
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/16/1972  Upload Date: 4/16/2009 1:37:03 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  735   Comments: 0
LI 225
Title:  LI 225
Description:  Actual date not known. 126 Instamatic photo.
Photo Date:  1/1/1974  Upload Date: 12/28/2021 8:02:26 PM
Location:  Farmingdale, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  257   Comments: 0
LI 225
Title:  LI 225
Description:  Actual date not known. 126 Instamatic photo.
Photo Date:  1/1/1975  Upload Date: 12/28/2021 8:02:42 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  195   Comments: 0
LI 225
Title:  LI 225
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/1/1975  Upload Date: 4/2/2020 10:12:00 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  351   Comments: 2
L to R: 463-440-225-467-1557
Title:  L to R: 463-440-225-467-1557
Description:  4 models of Alco noses! Actual day not recorded.
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/18/2020 7:46:03 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 463(RS1) LI 440(S2) LI 225(C420) LI 467(RS1) LI 1557(RS3)
Views:  621   Comments: 1
Long Island C420 225
Title:  Long Island C420 225
Description:  Somewhere on Long Island, photographer unknown.
Photo Date:  2/24/1977  Upload Date: 4/9/2017 2:29:18 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author: 
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
LI 225 in for painting into the new scheme.
Title:  LI 225 in for painting into the new scheme.
Description:  Not sure of actual date. Morris Park shop tour.
Photo Date:  6/11/1977  Upload Date: 5/24/2020 11:48:55 PM
Location:  Richmond Hill, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  255   Comments: 2
Eastbound surprise
Title:  Eastbound surprise
Description:  In 1978, the LIRR extended a couple of Ronkonkoma trains to Yaphank in response to the growing traffic as population on Long Island grew. Aside from the benefit to far east end riders, the bonus to fans was that they usually drew a C 420, which was becoming a rare event in those days, as the GP 38s had largely taken over the passenger duties. I caught one at Ronkonkoma, almost close enough to grab it. This was early in my photography career, and I still had a thing or two to learn about composition.
Photo Date:  7/18/1977  Upload Date: 12/2/2016 4:14:12 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  458   Comments: 0
Mid day layovers
Title:  Mid day layovers
Description:  This is not the greatest shot. I probably took it with the 110 Instamatic I was using then, in my early rail photograpy days, but it catches a transitional time on the LIRR. We see an Alco in the MTA blue/yellow scheme from the late 60s with a passenger train, something that would very shortly become a rarity, as the GP 38s had been delivered; an MP 15 poking out behind a train in the center of the photo, probably the only place in America where they were used in passenger service; and two of the aforementioned GP 38s, one at far right, the other just poking a nose out behind the Alco. These units would be hold sway on diesel trains for almost the next 30 years.
Photo Date:  1/17/1978  Upload Date: 12/13/2016 3:36:44 AM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  443   Comments: 0
LI 225
Title:  LI 225
Description:  Afga film. Actual date not known. 225 running around its train for the return west.
Photo Date:  10/1/1978  Upload Date: 11/1/2024 11:28:06 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  44   Comments: 0
EMD SW1001 #102 and ALCO C-420 #225
Title:  EMD SW1001 #102 and ALCO C-420 #225
Description:  Roundhouse At Morris Park
Photo Date:  10/7/1978  Upload Date: 4/24/2014 3:45:13 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 102(SW1001) LI 225(C420)
Views:  900   Comments: 0
LI 225 on RF58
Title:  LI 225 on RF58
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/5/1979  Upload Date: 5/17/2020 11:40:52 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  255   Comments: 2
C420s
Title:  C420s
Description:  LIRR C420s 225 and 228 power a e/b freight at Jamaica, Queens.
Photo Date:  8/17/1982  Upload Date: 1/27/2008 2:00:20 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Donald Albertson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420)
Views:  548   Comments: 0
Done for the day
Title:  Done for the day
Description:  RF 63 has returned to Pine Aire and tied up. A new crew will come on after the evening rush and take the train to Fresh Pond as RF 91.
Photo Date:  9/23/1986  Upload Date: 12/14/2014 2:11:07 AM
Location:  Pine Aire, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 225(C420)
Views:  729   Comments: 0
Local power
Title:  Local power
Description:  Long Island had a small yard at Pinelawn. The power there was usually an MP 15, but occasionally would be one or two C 420s. Today I got lucky and caught a pair of Centuries there. Note the maintenance trucks at right. LIRR kept the blue/yellow on its vehicles long after the trains went to blue and white.
Photo Date:  10/21/1986  Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:58:16 AM
Location:  Pinelawn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  611   Comments: 0
Commuters rolling east
Title:  Commuters rolling east
Description:  RF 63 has tied up in the siding at Deer Park, clearing up at the end of his day for the evening rush. Train 254 with MP 15 163 leading goes past the old Deer Park station en route to the end of its run in Ronkonkoma. The station here is no longer in use for passengers, having been supplanted by the new high level station built as part of the Ronkonkoma electrification. It will be kept for the freight crews and MOW.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/2/2015 4:26:33 AM
Location:  Deer Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 163(MP15AC) LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  659   Comments: 0
C 420s meet a Ronkonkoma train
Title:  C 420s meet a Ronkonkoma train
Description:  RF 63 has tied up at the old Deer Park station, meeting an eastbound Ronkonkoma train which is pulling away as it heads for Wyandanch and Ronkonkoma
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 10:43:39 PM
Location:  Deer Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) LI 257(GP38-2)
Views:  1148   Comments: 0
Pulling in
Title:  Pulling in
Description:  RF 63 takes the siding at SG in Brentwood. It will shortly meet an eastbound commuter train, then head on to Deer Park to tie up. The electrification project is progressing-note the third rail in place.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 1:37:38 AM
Location:  Brentwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  550   Comments: 0
Made it
Title:  Made it
Description:  RF 63 is in the siding at Deer Park, its new base of operations. The old terminal, Pine Aire, was eliminated as part of the Ronkonkoma electrification project, as was the Deer Park station-note the platform has been partly removed, and the notice for the relocation on the station building.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 1:57:15 AM
Location:  Deer Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  570   Comments: 0
Pushing east
Title:  Pushing east
Description:  Train 254 with GP 38-2 257 in the unusual position of being on the west end, pushes past tied up RF 63 and its Alcos.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/2/2015 4:29:14 AM
Location:  Deer Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 257(GP38-2) LI 225(C420)
Views:  524   Comments: 0
NY 112
Title:  NY 112
Description:  RF 63 crosses NY 112 in Medford.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:00:54 AM
Location:  Medford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  521   Comments: 0
Old station, new signals
Title:  Old station, new signals
Description:  RF 63 rolls past the erstwhile Ronkonkoma station and a new signal bridge, part of electrification project that will bring third rail and MU trains here, as well as a new station
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:17:47 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  538   Comments: 0
Pulling past the switch
Title:  Pulling past the switch
Description:  RF 63 has backed out of the siding at SG and is resuming its westward trek to tie up at DK
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:23:07 AM
Location:  Brentwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  405   Comments: 0
By the block limit
Title:  By the block limit
Description:  RF 63 passes block limit staton YA as it gets underway toward Ronkonkoma and Deer Park
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:26:01 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  399   Comments: 0
Not much of a station
Title:  Not much of a station
Description:  To be fair, there was not much traffic there, and I doubt Yaphank ever had much of a station to begin with. This bus shelter affair is what serves in 1987 as RF63 rolls past
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:28:36 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  461   Comments: 0
RF 63
Title:  RF 63
Description:  RF 63 rolls into Brentwood, where it will take the siding at SG for a meet with an eastbound commuter train.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:32:52 AM
Location:  Brentwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
Smokin' it up
Title:  Smokin' it up
Description:  RF 62 does what Alcos do as it accelerates from a customer set out at Holtsville.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 4:09:12 AM
Location:  Holtsville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420)
Views:  438   Comments: 0


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