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| Title: |
Pushing to Jamaica |
| Description: |
This westbound train is making its stop at Glen Street, and will shortly be rolling for Sea Cliff as it makes its way down the branch to Mineola, and eventually a connection to the city terminal zone at Jamaica. |
| Photo Date: |
1/30/1988 Upload Date: 6/25/2015 3:04:47 AM |
| Location: |
Glen Cove, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 261(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
228 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Dropping off |
| Description: |
This eastbound Oyster Bay train has just dropped a healthy group of riders off at Glen Street, the busier of the two stations in Glen Cove. |
| Photo Date: |
1/30/1988 Upload Date: 6/25/2015 3:09:34 AM |
| Location: |
Glen Cove, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Winter,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 268(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
280 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Taking the switch |
| Description: |
A freshly painted 274 rolls through the plant at Nassau, taking the switch leading to the Oyster Bay branch as it starts its slow trip to Oyster Bay. Note the ACI label-looks clean. |
| Photo Date: |
1/30/1988 Upload Date: 6/25/2015 3:14:59 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 274(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
205 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
FA 1 rolling out |
| Description: |
One of the two FA 1s with small number boards is about to leave Oyster Bay for another trip down the branch to Mineola and Jamaica. |
| Photo Date: |
1/30/1988 Upload Date: 6/27/2015 3:55:08 AM |
| Location: |
Oyster Bay, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 617(Power Car) |
| Views: |
370 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Classic pose |
| Description: |
An F unit power pack rolls slowly past the section house at Nassau as it trails an Oyster Bay train heading up the branch at Mineola. This unit was converted from a Milwaukee Road F 7. |
| Photo Date: |
1/30/1988 Upload Date: 6/25/2015 3:08:13 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 620(Power Car) |
| Views: |
199 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pushing it home |
| Description: |
A westbound Oyster Bay train with an MP 15 pushes into Mineola, passing Nassau tower. In 15 minutes, it will be done on this trip as it reaches Jamaica. |
| Photo Date: |
4/21/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:09:56 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 158(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
302 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Taking the branch |
| Description: |
A GP 38-2 leads an eastbound train up the Branch, taking the switch at Nassau. |
| Photo Date: |
4/21/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:15:54 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 266(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
200 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Going up the branch |
| Description: |
FA 609 trails this eastbound train crossing Willis Av as it heads to Oyster Bay. |
| Photo Date: |
4/21/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:17:04 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 609(Power Car) |
| Views: |
194 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Rolling into town |
| Description: |
An Oyster Bay train led by an FA rolls slowly past the section house and through Nassau interlocking and will shortly be in Mineola for its station stop. |
| Photo Date: |
4/21/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:25:56 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 611(Power Car) |
| Views: |
399 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Off peak |
| Description: |
Typical off peak power on the branch was an MP 15 on the east end, and either an FA or power pack equipped MP 15 on the west end. Today we have MP 15 158 doing the honors for this eastbound train at Glen Street. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/1988 Upload Date: 7/28/2015 2:57:11 AM |
| Location: |
Glen Cove, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 158(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
258 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
High end |
| Description: |
The Mill Neck station serves an area near Oyster Bay where they really have some money, and the elegance of the station reflects it. A westbound passes the station on a Sunday afternoon. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/1988 Upload Date: 7/16/2015 3:31:50 AM |
| Location: |
Mill Neck, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 170(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
191 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Elegant station |
| Description: |
If a somewhat fuzzy train. An eastbound Oyster Bay train passes the station at Mill Neck. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/1988 Upload Date: 7/28/2015 3:33:35 AM |
| Location: |
Mill Neck, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 253(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
222 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
FA going away |
| Description: |
An eastbound Oyster Bay train at Glen Street has a clean FA 2 bringing up the rear as it pulls away toward Glen Cove station. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/1988 Upload Date: 7/28/2015 3:35:31 AM |
| Location: |
Glen Cove, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 614(Power Car) |
| Views: |
459 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Up the branch |
| Description: |
An Oyster Bay train takes the switch at Nassau, starting up the branch. To the right is the now out of service substation that provided power for the Main Line, as well as the Oyster Bay branch to East Williston, and a now abandoned line down into Garden City. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/1988 Upload Date: 7/16/2015 3:39:11 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 614(Power Car) |
| Views: |
399 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Catching the sun |
| Description: |
A westbound Oyster Bay train comes off the branch, catching the last sun as it passes the old substation and Nassau tower. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/1988 Upload Date: 7/16/2015 3:41:32 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 620(Power Car) |
| Views: |
185 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
A different 611 |
| Description: |
Long Island used modified Alco FA's to provide train hotel power, and as control cabs. They were typically on the west end of trains, making photography of them leading somewhat problematic on their morning westbound runs. This one is pulling away as the train heads through Nassau interlocking and up the Oyster Bay branch. Of note are two buildings in the background. The first, seen above the second car from the FA, is Nassau tower. The Long Island may have the most active towers of any railroad in America at this point in history. The second notable structure is the ivy covered building immediately behind the FA. It was once a power station for the LIRR electrified lines, which, in addition to the Main Line west, also included third rail to East Williston on the Oyster Bay branch, and on the line that turned south here to reach Garden City and Hempstead. It was once possible to go from Mineola to West Hempstead and Valley Stream by train. |
| Photo Date: |
5/19/1990 Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:47:06 PM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
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| Locomotives: |
LI 611(Power Car) |
| Views: |
574 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Classic station |
| Description: |
One of the more attractive, and oldest, stations on the Island is here at East Williston. One time bicentennial unit 252 has an Oyster Bay train in tow as it makes its stop here. |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/1991 Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:29:19 PM |
| Location: |
East Williston, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 252(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
207 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Pulling away |
| Description: |
The power pack on the Oyster Bay train is an ex MILW F 7, just getting past the station at East Williston. |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/1991 Upload Date: 2/27/2015 3:30:58 PM |
| Location: |
East Williston, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 620(Power Car) |
| Views: |
189 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Taking the branch |
| Description: |
An Oyster Bay train heads up the branch at Nassau tower with a power pack equipped MP 15 taking up the rear. As soon as he clears the plant, the signal at right will go to clear. |
| Photo Date: |
9/9/1991 Upload Date: 3/2/2015 2:29:15 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
331 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
On the crossing |
| Description: |
An Oyster Bay bound train holds traffic on I U Willets Rd as it slows for its Albertson stop with van cruncher 265, so called for its role in a crossing accident at Herricks Rd in 1982 which resulted in nine fatalities. |
| Photo Date: |
10/12/1991 Upload Date: 2/19/2015 2:39:26 AM |
| Location: |
Albertson, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 265(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
230 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Nassau overhead |
| Description: |
A view of Nassau tower and the switches to the Oyster Bay branch, looking down from the Mineola Blvd overpass. We see a westbound train coming off the branch behnid an FA. At one time, there was a connection from the Oyster Bay branch to a line that went down behind Franklin Av in Garden City, to the location of Garden tower, which was at that time a four way junction of the line from Mineola, the Hempstead Branch and the Mitchell Field Secondary. The line from Mineola was abaondoned and pulled up in the 1960s-I can recall very vaguely seeing Alco S types on the line on a few rare occasions in the mid 60's; the other lines remain. There is an office building at right just out of the photo. It's new since the last time I was in Mineola, about 1988. It stands where there was a connecting track from the Main Line to the line to Garden City. That track went to the right of the ivy covered building at far right. The platform you see was not extended til the 80's. |
| Photo Date: |
10/12/1991 Upload Date: 2/19/2015 2:44:20 AM |
| Location: |
Mineola, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 617(Power Car) |
| Views: |
396 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
F unit bringing up the rear |
| Description: |
In the 1980s LIRR added 4 EMD Fs to the power car fleet, two former MILW units, and two from the B&O. One of the ex Milwaukee units is on the rear of an Oyster Bay train at the Albertson station. Note the bow wave, yet another variation on the LIRR scheme for the F/FA power packs. Looks good on this former F 7. |
| Photo Date: |
10/13/1991 Upload Date: 7/29/2012 1:52:02 AM |
| Location: |
Albertson, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 620(Power Car) |
| Views: |
581 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
MP 15 in blue and yellow |
| Description: |
In the late 1980s, LIRR decided to change their image from the blue and white that had been the scheme since the early 70s, back to the blue and yellow MTA colors they used when the MTA originally took over in the 1960s. Heres one of the MP 15s in the new paint. Note the first car of the train had the headlight plated over, a sign it was a former MU car converted to diesel service. |
| Photo Date: |
5/16/1993 Upload Date: 5/22/2011 3:08:31 AM |
| Location: |
Sea Cliff, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station,Passenger |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
578 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Retro |
| Description: |
A retro painted MP 15 leads at the classic Victorian era Sea Cliff station. The "P" on the nose indicates the unit is set up to provide hotel power for the train. |
| Photo Date: |
5/23/1993 Upload Date: 1/25/2015 3:20:40 AM |
| Location: |
Sea Cliff, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 161(MP15AC) |
| Views: |
268 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
FA in new paint at an old station |
| Description: |
An Oyster Bay train makes its stop at Sea Cliff behind an FA, some of which also got painted in the new scheme. |
| Photo Date: |
5/23/1993 Upload Date: 1/25/2015 3:24:59 AM |
| Location: |
Sea Cliff, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 605(Power Car) |
| Views: |
331 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Big nose |
| Description: |
The Alco cab units were known for their large flat noses. Here we look at FA 2 605 as it trails an Oyster Bay train at Sea Cliff. Too bad someone didnt put at least an MTA logo on there. |
| Photo Date: |
5/23/1993 Upload Date: 1/25/2015 3:27:54 AM |
| Location: |
Sea Cliff, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 605(Power Car) |
| Views: |
343 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
New scheme close up |
| Description: |
A roster view of FA 605 at Sea Cliff shows the paint scheme they were adorned with. It was tweaked a few times before this final look, but it came out looking good. |
| Photo Date: |
5/23/1993 Upload Date: 1/25/2015 3:32:48 AM |
| Location: |
Sea Cliff, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 605(Power Car) |
| Views: |
390 Comments: 0 |
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