Association of American Railroad consist on LIRR

This morning MP15AC #158 and #168 went on the Oyster Bay Branch with a Association of American Railroads consist, a Research car and a track loading vehicle. In the afternoon it came off the Oyster Bay Branch and went east on the Main Line.

Saw it in Hicksville on Monday.

It came to Babylon today (Sunday) It is in Hendrickson siding. Maybe going east tomorrow.. Came to Babylon around 4pmish...

I happened to be on the platform at East Williston on Saturday when it passed by.

http://youtu.be/LMJydBn-19s?list=UUBauy ... yBnLoQCU0w" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Saw it twice on Babylon going West and than went back east around 4:00pm, don't know where it went after that. Kinda odd seeing something like that on LI

It is a telemetry car.

168 on the west end and 158 on the east end of this consist through Rosedale around 1230 this afternoon.

onorclose7 wrote:It is a telemetry car.

It's more than telemetry. It puts a load on tbe rails both downward and outward to test the integresearch .

It's a process to get all the testing done as not all tests can be done simultaneously. The load testing can only be done in one direction (with the research car leading) with a maximum speed around 20 mph.

robertwa wrote:I happened to be on the platform at East Williston on Saturday when it passed by. http://youtu.be/LMJydBn-19s?list=UUBauy ... yBnLoQCU0w" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thank you. I enjoyed that and the video quality super.

It was eastbound on the PW branch through Woodside at 3:30p. yesterday.

Saw that bad boy rumble through Malverne today. Interesting seeing the looks at the kids at the playground when it went though...

This afternoon at around 1:45 PM it went by New Hyde Park with #157 and #172 headed westbound.

In LIC tonight.

Great pic! I can't believe how much they cleaned up that yard, I first thought that was CG at first glance...

[quote="DaveBarraza"]In LIC tonight.

Dave: I thought it was a model at first quick glance. Absolutely the "cleanest" LIRR yard photo, perhaps, I have ever seen. Thank you.