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LI 1900 |
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Former 4900, repainted for system tour for the Bi-Centennial |
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8/1/1976 Upload Date: 4/15/2006 7:18:08 PM |
| Location: |
Hempstead, NY |
| Author: |
Tim Darnell |
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Passenger |
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MP 54 |
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There was a pair of#MP 54s stored at Port Washington for several months in 1977, awaiting donation to the LIRR museum, still in its early days at that time. Im posing on the step of the cab car-the other was a blind trailer-at Port. |
| Photo Date: |
5/15/1977 Upload Date: 3/25/2016 3:47:37 AM |
| Location: |
Port Washington, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Station,Passenger |
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| Title: |
Museum pieces |
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These two MP 54s had been restoped to their original Tuscan paint, the intention being to go to the Long Island RR museum, which was still in its infancy. They were stored at Port Washington for some reason/ an unusual place for such things, since anything the LIRR wanted to keep an eye on was usually at Morris Park or Shea Stadium. Dad and I found them on a Sunday in May. |
| Photo Date: |
5/15/1977 Upload Date: 3/25/2016 3:44:24 AM |
| Location: |
Port Washington, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Yard,Station,Passenger |
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| Title: |
Old and new |
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A couple of MP 54 museum cars had been painted by a group on the Island, and they had prevailed on the LIRR to store them. For a time in 1977, they were at Port Washington, pushed back into one of the storage tracks there. Since the LIRR needed all the capacity they had there, the regular cars were put into the same track, giving us this odd juxtaposition. It was not the first time I had seen such a combination, though. In the early years of the M 1s, there were frequent f`ilures, and it was not unheard of for a train of MP 54s or MP 72s to be coupled to a disabled train of M 1s to push them to destination. |
| Photo Date: |
5/29/1977 Upload Date: 12/3/2016 5:13:19 AM |
| Location: |
Port Washington, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
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LI 9194(M-1 Metropolitan) |
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