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LI 200
Title:  LI 200
Description:  Having run around its train of four ping pong coaches, LIRR C420 #200 is ready to depart westbound for Jamaica. LI 200 is extant as LAL 420.
Photo Date:  6/23/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 7:37:33 PM
Location:  Smithtown, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 200(C420)
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LI 200
Title:  LI 200
Description:  A "Smithtown turn" consist of C420 and four ping pong coaches enters the siding at Smithtown eastbound. After meeting a westbound train from Port Jefferson, the 200 will run around her train and prepare to head back to Jamaica. Happily, LI 200 is extant as LAL 420.
Photo Date:  6/23/1972  Upload Date: 12/17/2008 6:22:24 PM
Location:  Smithtown, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 200(C420)
Views:  899   Comments: 0
LI 200
Title:  LI 200
Description:  Believe this is a westbound train just east of Babylon. The signal bridges mark the control point where the third rail ends and the line goes from three tracks to two. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/22/2008 7:35:33 PM
Location:  West Islip, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 200(C420)
Views:  898   Comments: 1
LI 200
Title:  LI 200
Description:  LI 200 departing Kings Park on a westbound passenger train passes LI 468 in the siding with a weed-sprayer train. LI 200 was later VAMD 200, is extant as LAL 200. LI 468 was sold 6/16/77 to Naporano Iron & Metal for parts, body cut up at Jamaica, NY.
Photo Date:  4/8/1974  Upload Date: 12/8/2010 10:35:59 PM
Location:  Kings Park, NY
Author:  Stephen J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  LI 200(C420) LI 468(RS1)
Views:  935   Comments: 0
LI 201
Title:  LI 201
Description:  Eastbound Port Jefferson branch train makes a station stop at Syosset. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/19/2021 6:07:25 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 201(C420)
Views:  183   Comments: 0
LI 201
Title:  LI 201
Description:  Eastbound Ronkonkoma train approaching Bethpage station. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/20/2021 8:52:51 PM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 201(C420)
Views:  115   Comments: 0
LI 202
Title:  LI 202
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 202 gets underway at Hicksville with a short off-peak consist. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/13/2021 6:49:05 PM
Location:  Hicksville, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 202(C420)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
LI 202
Title:  LI 202
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 202 makes her station stop at Bethpage with a cloud of brakeshoe smoke. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/20/2021 8:52:13 PM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 202(C420)
Views:  99   Comments: 0
LI 202
Title:  LI 202
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 202 ducks under the South Woods Road bridge near Syosset with a short off-peak consist. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/23/2021 6:37:56 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 202(C420)
Views:  102   Comments: 0
LI 202
Title:  LI 202
Description:  LIRR C420 202 with an outbound rush-hour commuter train on the Port Jefferson branch. This location is between the Cold Spring Harbor and Huntington stations, prior to double-tracking in the 1980s. The open farm field at right is completely overgrown today. The consist includes seven of the 1955 Pullman-Standard streamlined coaches, five Ping Pongs and three former B&M American Flyer coaches. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1971  Upload Date: 1/23/2020 3:40:19 PM
Location:  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 202(C420)
Views:  235   Comments: 0
LI 202
Title:  LI 202
Description:  An eastbound off-peak consist of Ping Pong coaches on the Port Jefferson branch. This is likely a Smithtown turn and will not go all the way to the end of the branch at Port Jefferson. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1971  Upload Date: 1/23/2020 3:40:58 PM
Location:  Northport, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 202(C420)
Views:  197   Comments: 0
LI 202
Title:  LI 202
Description:  Two trains at Greenport ready to depart westward. Based on the orientation of the locomotives, the turntable was apparently out-of-service by this time. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/21/2008 6:56:38 PM
Location:  Greenport, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 202(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  1428   Comments: 0
LI 202
Title:  LI 202
Description:  Train RF-56 backed into the Kings Park hospital spur. LI 202 was later VNOR 202. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/7/2010 8:27:33 PM
Location:  Kings Park, NY
Author:  Stephen J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  LI 202(C420)
Views:  680   Comments: 1
LI 202
Title:  LI 202
Description:  A Port Jefferson train prepares to depart the Hunterspoint Avenue station. C420 #202 later worked on the Vermont Northern.
Photo Date:  7/19/1974  Upload Date: 12/30/2008 11:52:00 AM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  LI 202(C420) LI 1557(RS3)
Views:  1039   Comments: 0
LI 202
Title:  LI 202
Description:  Budd M-1 Metropolitan MU cars race with the C420s on an inbound Montauk train at Union Hall Street station.
Photo Date:  12/21/1974  Upload Date: 1/27/2009 6:58:19 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  LI 202(C420)
Views:  537   Comments: 1
LI 203
Title:  LI 203
Description:  Eastbound on the Port Jefferson branch with a train of mostly P54 "ping pong" coaches. The third and eighth cars appear to be ex-D&H/nee-B&A P69 Osgood-Bradley coaches. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1971  Upload Date: 1/13/2020 7:48:50 PM
Location:  Greenlawn, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 203(C420)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
LI 203
Title:  LI 203
Description:  The Advance Cannon Ball at Bethpage. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/21/2021 2:58:01 PM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 203(C420)
Views:  92   Comments: 0
LI 203
Title:  LI 203
Description:  C420 203 takes a string of P54 Ping Pong coaches west out of the station at Huntington. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/5/2008 8:11:29 PM
Location:  Huntington, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 203(C420)
Views:  806   Comments: 0
LI 203
Title:  LI 203
Description:  Three LIRR C420s and a leased BAR GP7 pass Union Hall Street station with a Sunday afternoon Montauk-bound train. This was a regular power balancing move to place locomotives at outlying points ready for Monday morning commuter runs.
Photo Date:  9/16/1973  Upload Date: 12/7/2010 10:03:33 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  LI 203(C420)
Views:  703   Comments: 0
LI 204
Title:  LI 204
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 204 is eastbound at Syosset with a consist that includes a P57B ping pong combine, two P69 ex-D&H coaches, two P71 ex-MEC coaches, and four P54 ping pongs. Date of photo approximate.. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/23/2021 6:36:09 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 204(C420)
Views:  111   Comments: 0
LI 204
Title:  LI 204
Description:  LI 204 is eastbound on the Port Jefferson branch between Syosset and Cold Spring Harbor stations with an off-peak consist of four P54 "ping pong" coaches, two ex-D&H P69s and two ex-MEC P71s. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/13/2021 6:51:38 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 204(C420)
Views:  88   Comments: 0
LI 205
Title:  LI 205
Description:  Long Island C420 205 climbs the grade westbound near CP Amott between Cold Spring Harbor and Syosset on the Port Jefferson branch. The first car is a former NYC corrugated side coach, while the second and third cars appear to be two of the former KCS coaches that LIRR acquired in 1969. The fourth car is an ex-B&M "American Flyer" coach. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1970  Upload Date: 8/29/2015 10:02:22 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 205(C420)
Views:  509   Comments: 0
LI 205
Title:  LI 205
Description:  Back to back C420s blast through Bethpage with the "Cannon Ball" headed for Montauk. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 1/15/2020 1:17:45 PM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 205(C420)
Views:  275   Comments: 0
LI 205
Title:  LI 205
Description:  The Cannon Ball, a parlor car train headed for Montauk, blasts through the Bethpage station without stopping. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/20/2021 8:50:58 PM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 205(C420)
Views:  140   Comments: 0
LI 205
Title:  LI 205
Description:  Power balance or rescue? Not sure if Long Island 205 is performing a rescue, or if they just need an extra locomotive in Port Jefferson. Eastbound at Syosset, date approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/19/2021 6:04:47 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 205(C420) LI 220(C420)
Views:  219   Comments: 0
LI 205
Title:  LI 205
Description:  A Smithtown turn coasts down grade between Syosset and Cold Spring Harbor on the Port Jefferson branch. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/21/2021 3:01:30 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 205(C420)
Views:  106   Comments: 0
LI 206
Title:  LI 206
Description:  A westbound climbs the grade between Cold Spring Harbor and Syosset on the Port Jefferson branch, just east of CP Amott. Three of the first four cars are former B&M "American Flyer" coaches purchased in 1959. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1970  Upload Date: 1/23/2020 3:39:25 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 206(C420)
Views:  277   Comments: 0
LI 206
Title:  LI 206
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 206 is eastbound with a Ping Pong consist on the Port Jefferson branch. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1971  Upload Date: 3/1/2021 5:58:24 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 206(C420)
Views:  75   Comments: 0
LI 206
Title:  LI 206
Description:  An eastbound Port Jefferson branch train on the viaduct at Hicksville. Looks like the second and third coaches are P71 class cars obtained from the Maine Central in 1962. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/11/2021 9:33:51 PM
Location:  Hicksville, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 206(C420)
Views:  100   Comments: 0
LI 207
Title:  LI 207
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 207 arrives at Kings Park station on the Port Jefferson branch with a westbound train. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/23/2021 6:33:01 PM
Location:  Kings Park, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 207(C420)
Views:  109   Comments: 0
LI 208
Title:  LI 208
Description:  Long Island C420s saw plenty of freight service later on, but in this era, they were rarely seen on freight. Here, the 208 is in the siding at Greenlawn on the Port Jefferson branch with a short consist. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/13/2021 6:50:57 PM
Location:  Greenlawn, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 208(C420)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
LI 208
Title:  LI 208
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 208 is eastbound on the Port Jefferson branch with a short freight consist. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1971  Upload Date: 3/1/2021 6:00:31 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 208(C420)
Views:  105   Comments: 0
LI 208
Title:  LI 208
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 208 treads lightly on the questionable trackage of the Kings Park Hospital branch. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1971  Upload Date: 3/1/2021 6:01:00 PM
Location:  Kings Park, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 208(C420)
Views:  124   Comments: 0
LI 208
Title:  LI 208
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 208 will have her hands full pulling empty hoppers off the coal trestle at Kings Park State Hospital. There is a short stretch of 5% grade leading up from this trestle. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1971  Upload Date: 3/1/2021 6:01:28 PM
Location:  Kings Park, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 208(C420)
Views:  104   Comments: 0
LI 208
Title:  LI 208
Description:  Long Island C420 208 passes Landia station with a westbound train of ping pongs. Landia was situated between Hicksville and Syosset on the Port Jefferson branch, and was established for use by workers at the nearby Cerro Wire factory, now a Superfund site. There was never a depot here, just a platform, served by one eastbound and one westbound train per day. The stop was abolished in 1973. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/11/2021 9:27:10 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 208(C420)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
LI 208
Title:  LI 208
Description:  Long Island Alcos take a break in the yard at Oyster Bay. Note the turntable in the background. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/2/2008 9:33:09 AM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 208(C420) LI 1551(RS3)
Views:  1150   Comments: 0
LI 208
Title:  LI 208
Description:  Not sure if this is the Pilgrim State or Kings Park Hospital train, but slide mount reads "208 sick hospital train, ACT M-1 picking up its passengers." LI 208 was later Detroit & Mackinac 976.
Photo Date:  6/2/1974  Upload Date: 12/9/2010 10:31:55 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  LI 208(C420)
Views:  512   Comments: 0
LI 209
Title:  LI 209
Description:  Long Island Alco 209 climbs the grade behind Syosset High School with a westbound train of P54 coaches on the Port Jefferson branch. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  2/1/1971  Upload Date: 3/1/2021 5:59:27 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 209(C420)
Views:  131   Comments: 0
LI 209
Title:  LI 209
Description:  Clouds are rolling in as a pair of C420s bring what I believe is the "Advance Cannon Ball" through Bethpage. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/21/2008 7:22:10 PM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 209(C420)
Views:  721   Comments: 0
LI 210
Title:  LI 210
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 210 approaches Jamaica station with a short off-peak consist of just three Ping Pongs. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/21/2021 2:55:06 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 210(C420)
Views:  82   Comments: 0
LI 210
Title:  LI 210
Description:  When Long Island's FA-cab cars first went into service, there were some bugs to be worked out, and the C420s ended up pulling the trains in both directions on many occasions. Here, 210 does the honors on a Port Jefferson train just east of the Kings Park station. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/2/2008 9:22:44 AM
Location:  Kings Park, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 210(C420)
Views:  655   Comments: 0
LI 210
Title:  LI 210
Description:  Alco and EMD team up on this Port Jefferson train, ready to depart the Hunterspoint Avenue station.
Photo Date:  7/3/1974  Upload Date: 12/24/2008 10:20:53 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  LI 210(C420) BAR 65(GP7)
Views:  932   Comments: 2
LI 211
Title:  LI 211
Description:  LI 211 gets underway from Hicksville with a short off-peak consist of ping pong coaches. She was later D&H 211, R&S 41, DL/VLIX 41. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 1/20/2020 4:29:56 PM
Location:  Hicksville, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 211(C420)
Views:  251   Comments: 0
LI 211
Title:  LI 211
Description:  LI 211 climbs the grade behind Syosset High School with an off-peak consist, very likely a Smithtown turn. The first two cars are the familiar P54 ping pong coaches. The third through fifth cars appear to be P71 or P71a coaches obtained from the MEC in 1962. Cars six and seven look like ex-D&H P69 coaches, and on the bottom is a ping pong combine. LI 211 was later D&H 211, R&S 41, DL/VLIX 41. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/2/2021 8:58:59 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 211(C420)
Views:  135   Comments: 0
LI 212
Title:  LI 212
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 212 westbound at Bethpage with what I believe is a Montauk train. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/19/2021 6:11:29 PM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 212(C420)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
LI 212
Title:  LI 212
Description:  A Smithtown turn works upgrade between Cold Spring Harbor and Huntington on the Port Jefferson branch. This part of the line is now double track with third rail electrification. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/24/2021 6:29:46 PM
Location:  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 212(C420)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
LI 212
Title:  LI 212
Description:  Long Island Alco C420 212 climbs the grade behind Syosset High School with a westbound train on the Port Jefferson branch. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1971  Upload Date: 3/1/2021 5:58:44 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 212(C420)
Views:  126   Comments: 0
LI 212
Title:  LI 212
Description:  A short off-peak train passes the junction with the Central Branch just west of Babylon station. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/22/2008 8:55:14 PM
Location:  Babylon, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 212(C420)
Views:  747   Comments: 1
LIRR 212
Title:  LIRR 212
Description:  C420 212 and an ex-KCS coach have just arrived from Greenport with the "scoot".
Photo Date:  3/20/1974  Upload Date: 1/13/2006 6:50:19 PM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Stephen J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  LI 212(C420)
Views:  955   Comments: 0
LI 213
Title:  LI 213
Description:  Westbound train of Ping Pong coaches on the Port Jeff branch ducks under the Long Island Expressway near Landia station. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/20/2021 8:49:11 PM
Location:  Syosset, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  LI 213(C420)
Views:  154   Comments: 0


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