From top to bottom:
Electric brake plug
Reverser key
Brake valve handle
Don't know the dates.
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From top to bottom:
Electric brake plug
Reverser key
Brake valve handle
Don't know the dates.
Thank you.
Since I started this thread, I'd like to continue to post pics but am having trouble with this web site.
I'm getting a blue band stating "imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later."
Is anyone else having this issue ?
Speaking of Montauk service, is overcrowding still an issue post pandemic ?
I don't think then LIRR will be leasing those MARC coaches, although they were a hit with rail fan photographers.
Thank you Matt
May 1980 at Conrail Harmon Shops Open House.
Anyone know the car number and details about the fire ?
Anyone know the date of this open house, either April or May of 1980 ?
workextra wrote:So the Calverton spur and Peconic siding are two different animals ?
That’s the turbines on the calverton spur . Former Grumman lead
I need the location of the photo below of the E.R.A. Gas Turbine Special on November 13, 1977.
Is this Peconic Siding or Carmans River [MP59] ?
I remember the dumping of "redbirds" but yes, subway cars were being dumped in the early 1960's.I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the info.
I [ don't remember that particular car, but I remember when barges took scores of NYC subway cars offshore and dumped them in the New York Bight as artificial reef structures./quote] Do you mean the reefing program of twenty years ago ? I don't recall dumping old car bodies in the ocean 50 or 60 ye...
I posted the above image on another site and received a response that these elevated cars as well as IRT Lo-Vs were scrapped in Holban yard.
I would love to see pictures if they exist.
NYCTA "gate car" #1349 in Holban Yard prior to scrapping. Painted front suggests work car.(May 1959)
Anyone here remember this ?
RGlueck wrote: I remember regular Friday service in the 60's of the two open-end observation cars, "Jamaica" and "Setauket". "Jamaica" was built from a PRR P70 with a used porch built onto it. I understand it remains in preservation (fairly good, too) in Wantaugh Wanta...
Just a bit north of the Heathcote station is the right of way I photographed on Feb 25, 1989.
These may or may not be the correct cross street names I used on a satellite view.
Secor Road
Corel Road
RGlueck wrote: Was that the final run of the ALCO C420's? They were repainted for the occasion. Retiring that fleet of perfectly operable locomotives was a real waste. They never saw service again and were cut up at Naparano. I believe that fan trip was to signal the end of the C-420's. Weren't som...