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5/2/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Long Island Rail Road Company
Model:Alco RS3Built As:LI 1559 (RS3)
Serial Number:81359Order No:20975
Frame Number:prime mover # 12025Built:9/1955
Notes:blt. 09/1955, class AGP-16MSC
Other locos with this serial:  IC 704(RS3) LI 1559(RS3) MMID 301(RS3) GETY 1559(RS3) MRYM 301(RS3)
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LI 1559
Title:  LI 1559
Description:  Long Island Alco RS3 1559 heads up the Shelter Island Express at Bethpage. This is the Greenport parlor car train. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/20/2021 8:51:36 PM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 1559(RS3)
Views:  132   Comments: 0
LI 1559
Title:  LI 1559
Description:  Westbound on the Montauk branch. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1971  Upload Date: 1/13/2020 7:56:59 PM
Location:  Fresh Pond Junction, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 1559(RS3)
Views:  328   Comments: 1
LI 1559
Title:  LI 1559
Description:  We're 45 miles from Long Island City as RS3 1559 works a Smithtown turn consist of ping pongs on the Port Jefferson branch. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/24/2021 6:27:27 PM
Location:  Kings Park, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 1559(RS3)
Views:  92   Comments: 0
LI 1551
Title:  LI 1551
Description:  Long Island's Port Jeff freight on the Kings Park State Hospital branch. Pretty sure there is track somewhere under those weeds! LI 1551 was scrapped at Morris Park shops 11/76. Happily, LI 1559 survives at the Monticello Railroad Museum in Illinois as faux IC 704.
Photo Date:  7/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/4/2010 1:41:08 PM
Location:  Kings Park, NY
Author:  Stephen J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  LI 1551(RS3) LI 1559(RS3)
Views:  920   Comments: 0
LI 1559
Title:  LI 1559
Description:  Long Island RS3 1559 plays in the snow with the Port Jeff freight at Kings Park. Happily, the 1559 survives as faux-IC 704 at the Monticello RR museum in IL. Date of this photo approximate.
Photo Date:  2/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/2/2021 4:36:22 PM
Location:  Kings Park, NY
Author:  Stephen J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  LI 1559(RS3)
Views:  157   Comments: 0


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