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Pushing west
Title:  Pushing west
Description:  An Oyster Bay train headed for Jamaica rolls toward a restricting signal at Queens tower with an MP 15 pushing the consist. MP15s were common power on the typically short Oyster Bay trains.
Photo Date:  5/15/1984  Upload Date: 7/2/2014 3:51:00 PM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  487   Comments: 0
Circus train and position lights
Title:  Circus train and position lights
Description:  The Ringling Bros circus train passes under the position light signals at the east end of Queens Village station. They mark the west limit of Queens interlocking. The train is headed for a power swap to Amtrak E 60s and Jersey.
Photo Date:  12/6/1985  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 8:12:33 PM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 166(MP15AC) LI 154(MP15AC) LI 159(MP15AC)
Views:  1074   Comments: 1
Circus cars to Jersey
Title:  Circus cars to Jersey
Description:  The Ringling Bros train passing through Queens Village on the LIRR, animal cars head out. How did I know they were animal cars?? Breathe deep!!!
Photo Date:  12/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/14/2014 2:30:37 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  LI 166(MP15AC) LI 154(MP15AC) LI 159(MP15AC)
Views:  886   Comments: 1
Oyster Bay train
Title:  Oyster Bay train
Description:  An eastbound Oyster Bay train behind a typical consist of an MP 15 and FA/F unit power pack rolls through New Hyde Park.
Photo Date:  7/15/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 1:23:13 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
Circus train going away
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:  1194   Comments: 1
Lite power
Title:  Lite power
Description:  This lite power move, most likely an RF 7, since that train used to do most of the "as needed" work on the west end, passes Bellerose station.
Photo Date:  3/22/1987  Upload Date: 4/20/2015 1:51:51 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 159(MP15AC) LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  498   Comments: 0
Power pack and a freight
Title:  Power pack and a freight
Description:  MP 15 163 is bringing up the rear of train 652 as it passes RF 65 working a customer Greenlawn. Caboose C62 peeks out from the siding.
Photo Date:  6/11/1987  Upload Date: 5/2/2015 4:18:38 AM
Location:  Greenlawn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  537   Comments: 1
South Shore bound
Title:  South Shore bound
Description:  RF 64 heads east on the Main Line, having just passed Divde Tower. It will stay on the main to B Tower in Bethpage, then the Central Branch to Babylon, then work east on the Montauk Branch. The pair of MP 15s is typical power for this job.
Photo Date:  6/16/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 12:56:37 AM
Location:  Hicksville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC) LI 157(MP15AC)
Views:  451   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:  545   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:  577   Comments: 1
Working the yard area
Title:  Working the yard area
Description:  A side view of MP 15 154 and caboose in the Fresh Pond yard area, where they were working local traffic. Typical consist for local freight work.
Photo Date:  1/29/1988  Upload Date: 6/24/2015 3:45:48 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  424   Comments: 0
Nose on
Title:  Nose on
Description:  The Fresh Pond yard job on a customer siding, in a nose view of the MP 15.
Photo Date:  1/29/1988  Upload Date: 6/24/2015 3:56:30 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  346   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:  241   Comments: 0
Prema train
Title:  Prema train
Description:  RF 56, a train of stone for Prema Asphalt in Holtsville crosses over from track 4 to track 2 at Queens, the head end now passing Bellerose. It was a treat to see these trains when they got a pair of C 420's.
Photo Date:  6/26/1988  Upload Date: 7/30/2015 2:59:29 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 162(MP15AC) LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  446   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:  231   Comments: 0
Pushing home
Title:  Pushing home
Description:  A westbound Oyster Bay trains MP 15 pushes past the team tracks at Queens Village, the ladder track in the foreground.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:23:50 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
3 EMDs for two trains
Title:  3 EMDs for two trains
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/10/1996  Upload Date: 8/10/2017 10:10:30 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 158(MP15AC) LI 154(MP15AC) LI 170(MP15AC)
Views:  594   Comments: 0
Oyster Bay
Title:  Oyster Bay
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/10/1996  Upload Date: 8/11/2017 2:16:29 AM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 158(MP15AC) LI 154(MP15AC) LI 170(MP15AC)
Views:  535   Comments: 0
LIRR 154 and a ZIP car
Title:  LIRR 154 and a ZIP car
Description:  LIRR 154 and a ZIP car
Photo Date:  10/2/1999  Upload Date: 10/1/2012 9:12:04 PM
Location:  Holbrook, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  587   Comments: 0
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:  506   Comments: 0
3 LIRR MP15s
Title:  3 LIRR MP15s
Description:  Running from Danbury to Beacon on the ex NH Maybrook Line along the Croton Res.
Photo Date:  1/1/2004  Upload Date: 5/8/2010 9:13:21 PM
Location:  The Maybrook Line, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  593   Comments: 0
LI 154 with the RBBBC Blue Unit
Title:  LI 154 with the RBBBC Blue Unit
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/12/2004  Upload Date: 3/25/2013 11:03:54 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  470   Comments: 0
LI 167
Title:  LI 167
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/12/2004  Upload Date: 3/25/2013 10:52:51 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 167(MP15AC) LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  552   Comments: 0
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description:  LI 172 & 154 make a run into the clear so the Circus train can be placed into LIC Yard
Photo Date:  3/20/2006  Upload Date: 3/20/2006 10:18:21 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  557   Comments: 1
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/5/2007  Upload Date: 5/5/2007 5:45:24 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  603   Comments: 0
AMTK 13901
Title:  AMTK 13901
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/5/2007  Upload Date: 5/5/2007 5:45:23 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  595   Comments: 0
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/5/2007  Upload Date: 5/5/2007 5:45:20 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/21/2007  Upload Date: 10/21/2007 8:19:51 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  453   Comments: 0
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/21/2007  Upload Date: 10/21/2007 8:20:02 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  415   Comments: 0
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/19/2013  Upload Date: 1/26/2013 4:24:52 AM
Location:  Glendale, NY
Author:  Gregory Grice
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC)
Views:  531   Comments: 0
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/19/2013  Upload Date: 1/26/2013 4:27:58 AM
Location:  Glendale, NY
Author:  Gregory Grice
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  479   Comments: 0
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/19/2013  Upload Date: 1/26/2013 4:28:45 AM
Location:  Glendale, NY
Author:  Gregory Grice
Categories:  Bridge,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC)
Views:  409   Comments: 0
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/19/2013  Upload Date: 1/26/2013 4:29:18 AM
Location:  Glendale, NY
Author:  Gregory Grice
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/19/2013  Upload Date: 1/26/2013 4:29:38 AM
Location:  Glendale, NY
Author:  Gregory Grice
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC)
Views:  416   Comments: 0
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/19/2013  Upload Date: 1/26/2013 4:29:55 AM
Location:  Glendale, NY
Author:  Gregory Grice
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC)
Views:  482   Comments: 0
LIRR M3 next to an MP15AC
Title:  LIRR M3 next to an MP15AC
Description:  Sitting side by side at Jamaica
Photo Date:  4/30/2013  Upload Date: 4/30/2013 11:43:15 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Emmanuel Nicolas
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  632   Comments: 0
LI 102
Title:  LI 102
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/26/2019  Upload Date: 8/26/2019 8:51:20 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 102(SW1001) LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  329   Comments: 2
LI 154 on protect duty
Title:  LI 154 on protect duty
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/21/2022  Upload Date: 2/22/2022 10:42:04 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  57   Comments: 1
LI 154 on protect duty
Title:  LI 154 on protect duty
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/21/2022  Upload Date: 2/22/2022 10:42:00 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  89   Comments: 1
LI 154 on protect duty
Title:  LI 154 on protect duty
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/21/2022  Upload Date: 2/22/2022 10:42:02 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  76   Comments: 1
LI 154, 414 await assignments
Title:  LI 154, 414 await assignments
Description:  Not easy when the window has water spots
Photo Date:  10/1/2024  Upload Date: 10/5/2024 9:14:44 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC) LI 414(DE30AC)
Views:  22   Comments: 2
LI 154
Title:  LI 154
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/2024  Upload Date: 10/5/2024 9:15:23 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 154(MP15AC)
Views:  15   Comments: 1
LIRR MP15AC with RF-60
Title:  LIRR MP15AC with RF-60
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/28/1978  Upload Date: 2/1/2011 5:38:33 PM
Location:  Deer Park, NY
Author:  James Gillin
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  LI 155(MP15AC)
Views:  602   Comments: 0
LI 605, 155, 603
Title:  LI 605, 155, 603
Description:  Weekend line-up at "The bay"
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 2:08:11 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 605(Power Car) LI 155(MP15AC) LI 603(Power Car)
Views:  1206   Comments: 0
MP15AC and Parlour car Head under the LIE
Title:  MP15AC and Parlour car Head under the LIE
Description:  MP15AC and Parlour car Head under the LIE
Photo Date:  2/14/1981  Upload Date: 10/1/2012 8:20:01 PM
Location:  Calverton, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 155(MP15AC)
Views:  774   Comments: 0
Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Title:  Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/10/1983  Upload Date: 8/28/2008 1:08:45 PM
Location:  Central Islip, NY
Author:  Chris.J Allen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 155(MP15AC)
Views:  740   Comments: 1
Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Title:  Long Isiand Railroad In The 80s
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 8/28/2008 3:49:57 PM
Location:  Central Islip, NY
Author:  Chris.J Allen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 155(MP15AC)
Views:  721   Comments: 2
Why you dont see many shots from the Mineola Blvd overpass
Title:  Why you dont see many shots from the Mineola Blvd overpass
Description:  The wires!!! An Oyster Bay train behind an MP 15 makes its station stop at Mineola in a view obstructed by power lines. Otherwise this would be a great vantage point.
Photo Date:  2/12/1985  Upload Date: 9/25/2014 3:46:34 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 155(MP15AC)
Views:  467   Comments: 0
Homeward bound
Title:  Homeward bound
Description:  An Oyster Bay train makes its stop at Albertson, one of the more obscure stations on the railroad. It was a blacktop platform just north of I U Willets Rd with no facilities. Note the red stripe on the first car, indicating it's a parlor. In this case, it's a subscription car, and not open to the general public, as on the Montauk trains.
Photo Date:  3/11/1986  Upload Date: 11/15/2014 10:58:06 PM
Location:  Albertson, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 155(MP15AC)
Views:  398   Comments: 0
Riding in style
Title:  Riding in style
Description:  There was one parlor that did not run on the Montauk Branch, a subscription car on the Oyster Bay Branch that was a members only affair. Here it is at Albertson, right behind the power.
Photo Date:  3/11/1986  Upload Date: 11/15/2014 11:01:01 PM
Location:  Albertson, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 155(MP15AC)
Views:  361   Comments: 0


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