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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1977 - 5/15/2011
Album Info:Photos of the LIRR, mostly from the 1980's, with some 70's and some later.
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Clean power
Title:  Clean power
Description:  LIRR 275, the Marvin Blaine, pushes a Port Jeff scoot toward Huntington at the Northport station.
Photo Date:  2/13/1988  Upload Date: 6/27/2015 4:48:26 AM
Location:  Northport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 275(GP38-2)
Views:  257   Comments: 0
Overhead view
Title:  Overhead view
Description:  A look at the Port Jeff scoot we also saw from the platform. It was in the station long enough that I was able to get up on the pedestrian overpass, getting a good view of the pastel blue station and the area around it.
Photo Date:  2/13/1988  Upload Date: 6/27/2015 4:57:08 AM
Location:  Northport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 275(GP38-2)
Views:  272   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:  234   Comments: 0
Mixed meet
Title:  Mixed meet
Description:  A westbound M 1 train meets an eastbound Oyster Bay train at Covert Av in New Hyde Park. The LIRR Main Line was always full of action, and meets were common.
Photo Date:  3/7/1988  Upload Date: 7/4/2015 2:37:13 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  369   Comments: 0
Blasting through
Title:  Blasting through
Description:  Except for one morning rush train, everything that came in the Main Line from Mineola made its last stop before Jamaica at New Hyde Park, about 1/4 mile to the east. This Port Jeff train made its last stop at Mineola, and is getting a good roll on as it approaches the upgrade to Floral Park on its way to LIRRs main transfer point.
Photo Date:  3/7/1988  Upload Date: 7/4/2015 2:40:39 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 607(Power Car)
Views:  191   Comments: 0
High and mighty
Title:  High and mighty
Description:  The one classic parlor that the LIRR kept was the Morris Park, which was used as an office car. We found it at Long Island City, head out on this commuter train. Wonder who is riding today??
Photo Date:  3/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/4/2015 2:32:28 AM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 260(GP38-2)
Views:  1123   Comments: 0
In the skylines shadow
Title:  In the skylines shadow
Description:  The Empire State Building provides the backdrop for this commuter train at Long Island City yard. We get a bonus today: first car is office car Morris Park.
Photo Date:  3/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/4/2015 2:30:00 AM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 260(GP38-2)
Views:  414   Comments: 0
Bread and Cheese for lunch
Title:  Bread and Cheese for lunch
Description:  A westbound Port Jefferson train crosses the steel bridge at Bread and Cheese Hollow Rd, so named for the food carried by John Smith on his day long ride to establish the town of Smithtown in the 1600s. Legend is the local Native Americans would grant him all the land he could ride around on a bull in a days time. The road below, a trail in those days, was part of his route. Today there are almost no Natives in the area any more, but the name persists. Id bet most LIRR riders are unaware of the history of the road under the bridge.
Photo Date:  3/27/1988  Upload Date: 7/8/2015 2:37:57 AM
Location:  Smithtown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 622(Power Car)
Views:  272   Comments: 0
Shop bound
Title:  Shop bound
Description:  The Roustabout, a work-as-directed job that covered anything no assigned to a regular job, takes a lone coach from Long Island City to the Morris Park shop for attention. We see it passing Fresh Pond yard.
Photo Date:  3/30/1988  Upload Date: 7/8/2015 2:21:35 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  253   Comments: 0
Deadhead
Title:  Deadhead
Description:  A commuter train deadheads back to Jamaica from Long Island City in the mid morning, seen passing Fresh Pond.
Photo Date:  3/30/1988  Upload Date: 7/8/2015 2:25:11 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 251(GP38-2)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
Leaning in
Title:  Leaning in
Description:  The FA trailing this deadhead move leans into the curve as it passes Fresh Pond and heads into the tangent going toward Maspeth
Photo Date:  3/30/1988  Upload Date: 7/8/2015 2:28:30 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 616(Power Car)
Views:  482   Comments: 0
Protect power
Title:  Protect power
Description:  The Long Island kept these two engines on a tail track at Harold in Long Island City. They were equipped with MU couplers so they could go into the East River tunnels and pull out a stranded train in the event of a failure or emergency. Theyre headed to Jamaica for servicing, here passing Fresh Pond yard on the Montauk Branch. They would get repainted in a few years into an attractive retro 1960's scheme, dark blue with orange ends.
Photo Date:  4/21/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 4:08:23 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LI 101(SW1001) LI 105(SW1001)
Views:  576   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:  214   Comments: 0
Ready to go
Title:  Ready to go
Description:  A Patchogue scoot has taken on its passengers and is ready to head for a Babylon connection.
Photo Date:  5/7/1988  Upload Date: 7/16/2015 3:16:14 AM
Location:  Patchogue, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  357   Comments: 0
Headed to a Babylon connection
Title:  Headed to a Babylon connection
Description:  A Patchogue scoot makes its stop at Great Rfver as it rolls to a connection with MU trains for the trip into Penn Station.
Photo Date:  5/7/1988  Upload Date: 7/16/2015 3:08:38 AM
Location:  Oakdale, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car)
Views:  377   Comments: 1
Picking up for Babylon
Title:  Picking up for Babylon
Description:  A westbound Patchogue scoot makes its stop at Great River, with a good crowd of weekenders heading back to the city.
Photo Date:  5/7/1988  Upload Date: 7/16/2015 3:10:52 AM
Location:  Great River, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 616(Power Car)
Views:  474   Comments: 1
Jamaica next
Title:  Jamaica next
Description:  A westbound Oyster Bay train has come off the branch and is picking up passengers for Jamaica and the city. An MP 15 will push the train closer to New York.
Photo Date:  6/11/1988  Upload Date: 7/16/2015 2:57:31 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 152(MP15AC)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
Rolling to a stop
Title:  Rolling to a stop
Description:  An Oyster Bay train behind the typical off peak MP 15 comes to a stop at Mineola.
Photo Date:  6/11/1988  Upload Date: 7/16/2015 3:01:04 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 158(MP15AC)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
View from the street
Title:  View from the street
Description:  This Montauk train was passing the Lynbrook station, as seen from the street below. Much of the Montauk Branch between Valley Stream and Babylon is elevated, a project completed in stages over several decades, with the last few stations not completed til the 70s.
Photo Date:  6/12/1988  Upload Date: 8/15/2015 1:42:04 AM
Location:  Lynbrook, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 260(GP38-2) LI 162(MP15AC)
Views:  528   Comments: 1
Rolling on the south shore
Title:  Rolling on the south shore
Description:  Most Montauk trains ran the Central Branch and the Main Line via Hicksville, though if they did not have any stops(some made Mineola, and at least one south shore train during the week made Bethpage), the dispatcher had his choice of routes. This Montauk train was one of those, and we see it rolling west through Valley Stream on its way to city connections at Jamaica. Valley tower, at right of the train, controls the tracks going off to the right, the Far Rockaway Branch, and a connection to the West Hempstead Branch, which diverges to the left out of the photo beyond the train of M 1's in the distance.
Photo Date:  6/12/1988  Upload Date: 8/15/2015 1:50:57 AM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 273(GP38-2)
Views:  198   Comments: 0
Port Jeff down the middle
Title:  Port Jeff down the middle
Description:  A Port Jefferson train out of Hunterspoint Av rolls down the middle track as it makes its way to Jamaica for connections.
Photo Date:  6/13/1988  Upload Date: 7/28/2015 4:01:49 AM
Location:  Forest Hills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 264(GP38-2)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
Unusual rear power
Title:  Unusual rear power
Description:  Most trains that used power packs had an FA or one of the power pack equipped MP 15s on the rear. This Port Jeff train had another GP 38.
Photo Date:  6/13/1988  Upload Date: 7/28/2015 4:05:37 AM
Location:  Forest Hills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 271(GP38-2)
Views:  317   Comments: 0
Schlager to Oyster Bay
Title:  Schlager to Oyster Bay
Description:  LIRR 277, the Walter Schlager, leads an Oyster Bay train through the Forest Hills station. The signals at the west end of the station made for interesting watching. Aside from giving notice of impending moves, it was fun to watch them change positions.
Photo Date:  6/13/1988  Upload Date: 7/28/2015 4:08:08 AM
Location:  Forest Hills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 277(GP38-2)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
FA on the Main Line
Title:  FA on the Main Line
Description:  An FA takes up the rear on this Oyster Bay train rolling down the Main Line at Forest Hills.
Photo Date:  6/13/1988  Upload Date: 7/28/2015 4:10:09 AM
Location:  Forest Hills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 613(Power Car)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
Through the streets
Title:  Through the streets
Description:  An Oyster Bay train pushes west, making its way across Willis Av as seen from down the block.
Photo Date:  7/31/1988  Upload Date: 8/28/2015 4:05:35 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 167(MP15AC)
Views:  274   Comments: 0
Big crowd
Title:  Big crowd
Description:  For a time, the LIRR was running its off peak Oyster Bay train as a connection at Mineola. This train has just come in off the branch, and its riders are now on the track 1 platform waiting for their west end connection. Seen from Mineola Blvd.
Photo Date:  7/31/1988  Upload Date: 8/28/2015 4:07:57 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 253(GP38-2)
Views:  322   Comments: 0
Wrong main
Title:  Wrong main
Description:  The Oyster Bay train at left is making its stop as usual on track 2. The train of M 1's is also eastbound, the two trains taking part in a dance that plays out every weekday afternoon here. The MU's are an eastbound all stops train from New York to Hicksville, which is planned to take track 1. The Oyster Bay train comes out from Jamaica on track 2, making Mineola as its first stop. While he does his station work, the MU train comes in and makes his stop. He has a stop signal on the Mineola Blvd overpass, which I am standing under. While the MU's do their work, the Oyster Bay train finishes, and takes a restricting signal to go up the branch, in front of the MU train. Once he's clear, the MU's get the signal on track 1, and resume their progress to Hicksville. Meanwhile, there are no westbound trains for about an hour while the LIRR uses both tracks eastbound between Queens and Divide. It was quite a show.
Photo Date:  7/31/1988  Upload Date: 8/28/2015 4:17:51 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 253(GP38-2)
Views:  232   Comments: 0
F unit up the branch
Title:  F unit up the branch
Description:  An Oyster Bay train rolls through Nassau interlocking as it leaves the Main Line and heads up the branch. One of LIRRs four converted F units trails today, this one ex B&O.
Photo Date:  7/31/1988  Upload Date: 8/28/2015 4:20:53 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 622(Power Car)
Views:  509   Comments: 0
Classic pose
Title:  Classic pose
Description:  An Oyster Bay train stops at the East Williston station. While not the oldest on the Island-that goes to St James, built in 1873-this station is close, built in the late 1800s.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:49:55 AM
Location:  East Williston, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
FA and a shack
Title:  FA and a shack
Description:  FA 614 is holding the rear of this Oyster Bay train. While the station, hidden from view in this photo, is quite attractive, the riders on the westbound side get this more modern looking shelter. Well, it keeps the rain off.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:52:01 AM
Location:  East Williston, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 614(Power Car)
Views:  421   Comments: 0
MP pair
Title:  MP pair
Description:  A visit to family in New York yielded me an afternoon of train watching out at Mineola, a nice break from the drama of too many people in one house. I saw several double headers that day, including this pair of MP 15s on an Oyster Bay train.
Photo Date:  5/7/1990  Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:46:32 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 160(MP15AC)
Views:  265   Comments: 0
Double down to Port Jeff
Title:  Double down to Port Jeff
Description:  This Port Jefferson train has a pair of GP 38-2s rolling it west as it makes its stop at Mineola. There were a number of trains that ran with pairs of units, rather than just the one that powered most trains. Usually they were the heavier trains-some runs had 14 or 15 cars-and the parlor heavy Montauk trains.
Photo Date:  5/7/1990  Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:49:11 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 259(GP38-2) LI 274(GP38-2)
Views:  469   Comments: 0
LIRR 259
Title:  LIRR 259
Description:  Some units seem to follow me around, although admittedly on a small(383 route miles, almost all on the same island) its hard not to see the same power over and over. This is the second shot of 259 and 274 together, this time at Mineola on a Montauk train
Photo Date:  5/7/1990  Upload Date: 11/18/2011 1:16:07 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 259(GP38-2) LI 274(GP38-2)
Views:  567   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:  397   Comments: 0
Always good to see an old friend
Title:  Always good to see an old friend
Description:  Power pack 611 is bringing up the rear on this Oyster Bay train as it clears the main, which will shortly be rocked by another eastbound. Nassau tower, behind the second car, controls the action. In 2016, it still does.
Photo Date:  5/7/1990  Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:53:26 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  424   Comments: 0
Oyster Bay rush hour train
Title:  Oyster Bay rush hour train
Description:  Most of the Oyster Bay trains got a locomotive on the east end and a power car on the west end. There was one train that ran with electric heat coaches that got a pair of MP 15s. Here it is passing Mineola.
Photo Date:  5/10/1990  Upload Date: 5/15/2011 10:17:16 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 160(MP15AC)
Views:  499   Comments: 0
In his honor
Title:  In his honor
Description:  LIRR was honoring at least a few of their employees who served in the first Gulf War. Here, on engine 258 at Mineola, we see a plaque for Paul Pombonyo. I hope he got home OK following his service, and has gone on to a good life back in the states.
Photo Date:  7/8/1991  Upload Date: 3/3/2015 1:53:24 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  LI 258(GP38-2)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
Rolling for Ronkonkoma
Title:  Rolling for Ronkonkoma
Description:  LIRR 267 rolls east just east of Mineola headed for Ronkonkoma.
Photo Date:  8/12/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:33:53 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 267(GP38-2)
Views:  263   Comments: 0
FA from Oyster Bay
Title:  FA from Oyster Bay
Description:  A late afternoon westbound Oyster Bay run approaches New Hyde Park with the usualy FA power pack. The "12 M1" sign marks where an eastbound 12 car M 1 train should stop its head end to platform the cars correctly.
Photo Date:  8/12/1991  Upload Date: 2/28/2015 4:47:05 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 609(Power Car)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
Couple of classics
Title:  Couple of classics
Description:  The FA is the obvous classic in this photo of a Ronkonkoma train rolling east, but check out the Monte Carlo!!
Photo Date:  8/12/1991  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:35:29 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 616(Power Car)
Views:  394   Comments: 0
LIRR 269
Title:  LIRR 269
Description:  In the late 1980s, Long Island returned to a paint scheme reminiscent of the first MTA paint scheme from the late 60s, featuring the NY state colors of blue and yellow.
Photo Date:  9/8/1991  Upload Date: 11/12/2011 10:49:01 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 269(GP38-2)
Views:  547   Comments: 0
Making its stop
Title:  Making its stop
Description:  An Oyster Bay train rolls under the signals at the west end of Mineola station about to make its stop there, then head up the branch.
Photo Date:  9/9/1991  Upload Date: 3/2/2015 2:31:06 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 257(GP38-2)
Views:  258   Comments: 0
New power on the Oyster Bay train
Title:  New power on the Oyster Bay train
Description:  I had moved away from the NY City area in 1988, and much had changed, including new power for the Long Island, replacing the 1976 and 77 delivered GP 38s. One of the new units leads an Oyster Bay train at Mineola
Photo Date:  4/15/2001  Upload Date: 12/3/2013 1:13:01 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 405(DE30AC)
Views:  291   Comments: 1
Headed east
Title:  Headed east
Description:  A LIRR Oyster Bay train pulls in to Jamaica to pick up passengers off the New York and Brooklyn trains. My two boys pose as the train pulls in.
Photo Date:  4/15/2001  Upload Date: 12/3/2013 1:19:24 AM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 405(DE30AC)
Views:  280   Comments: 1
Work train
Title:  Work train
Description:  MP 15s on Long Island did everything from pull passenger trains to work trains. Here we see one in the latter duty smoking it up at Manhasset on a Sunday in October 2003
Photo Date:  10/19/2003  Upload Date: 2/24/2013 1:59:37 AM
Location:  Manhasset, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  511   Comments: 0


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