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| Title: |
Circus train at Harold |
| Description: |
The Ringling Bros train rolls through Harold interlocking in Sunnyside as it head for Long Island City and a power swap to Amtrak E 60s for the trip through Penn Station. |
| Photo Date: |
12/6/1985 Upload Date: 10/14/2014 3:03:08 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 166(MP15AC) LI 154(MP15AC) LI 150(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
889 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Circus train going away |
| Description: |
The Ringling Bros circus train made an annual trip to Long Island, playing a string of shows at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale. The train would use the Mitchell Field Secondary to stage for the shows. Here we see it rolling through Forest Hills with the only instance I can think of where "foreign" equipment ran through onto Long Island-a Conrail caboose. |
| Photo Date: |
12/8/1986 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 7:46:53 PM |
| Location: |
Forest Hills, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 166(MP15AC) LI 154(MP15AC) LI 159(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
1181 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Circus train and classic station |
| Description: |
The Ringling Brothers train passes Forest Hills on its way to an Amtrak connection in Long Island City. |
| Photo Date: |
12/8/1986 Upload Date: 12/19/2014 3:48:16 AM |
| Location: |
Forest Hills, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 166(MP15AC) LI 150(MP15AC) LI 158(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
801 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Ringling Brothers train |
| Description: |
The Ringling Brothers circus train passes Nassau Blvd station on the Hempstead Branch after leaving Nassau Coliseum on the Mitchell Field secondary en route to Amtrak at Long Island City |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 10/8/2011 3:24:08 AM |
| Location: |
Garden City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
2234 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Getting out on the main |
| Description: |
Not exactly main line running, but close. The Ringling Brothers train has permission onto the Hempstead Branch at Garden, and is clearing the Mitchell Field Secondary as it gets underway to Long Island City to spot the train for the circus visit to Madison Square Garden. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:01:58 AM |
| Location: |
Garden City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
657 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bright wagons |
| Description: |
The circus train is partly intermodal, as all of its roadway equipment is loaded on trailer flats and run to the next venue. Here are some of them in this going away shot at Garden. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:04:02 AM |
| Location: |
Garden City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
677 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Nassau Blvd |
| Description: |
The Ringling Brothers train approaches Nassau Blvd in Garden City, its train stretched out back into downtown. Looks almost like a real intermodal train. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:26:43 AM |
| Location: |
Garden City, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
675 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Track 4 |
| Description: |
Sometimes the LIRR would run the circus train across to track 1 at Queens, as it runs the Main Line to Harold, where Amtrak power takes over. Today, the movement director has decided to run it on track 4, since it will go to Yard A, and not be handed off to Amtrak. It will take the freight bypass tracks on the south side of Jamaica station, then run the Montauk Branch, entering Sunnyside Yard A to back down to the old staging yard for the LI City ferry. There it will spot the cars for unloading. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:11:04 AM |
| Location: |
Queens Village, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
622 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Down the ramp |
| Description: |
The Ringling Brothers train rolls down the ramp on the secondary from Bliss as it enters Yard A at Sunnyside. That's the Chrysler Building directly behind the power. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:15:26 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
697 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Spotting cars |
| Description: |
The Ringling Brothers train is being spotted by the MP 15s here in an old ferry yard. The equipment and livestock will be unloaded here and taken through the Midtown Tunnel, then across 34th St to the Garden. |
| Photo Date: |
3/22/1988 Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:18:07 AM |
| Location: |
Sunnyside Yard, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
672 Comments: 1 |
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