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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1940 - 7/15/2012
Album Info:My dad, Tom Beckett Sr, was not a railfan, but he was an avid photographer of anything that caught his interest, everything from dogs to military aircraft, especially of WW II vintage; occasionally a train found its way in front of his camera. He passed away in March 2012 at the age of 79, at which time I came into possession of his photo collection. Much of this is slides, though he also shot a large volume of black and white, starting in the late 1940's. In this album we'll see some of his work as it turns up. Please note, in most cases, the dates are approximate, and sometimes they're wild guesses. Where I know it, it's correct; sometimes I can approximate by elements in the photo, or family history. Dad did not always mark info on his prints, though the slides most of the time have at least a month and year. He had a lot of slide film processed by private labs in New York, they did not always put a date on the mounts. If anyone looking at these photos can lend insight into a particular scene with a date or more info, please do so. Dad's not here to ask!!
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Pacemaker
Title:  Pacemaker
Description:  This is an undated Ektachrome of a a Pacemaker train passing a location on the NYC between Harmon and Poughkeepsie. My knowledge of the Hudson Division in any detail is sketchy, so if anyone can pinpoint the location, please comment. Im guessing the date is some time in the early to mid 1950s; its hard to say definitively since there are no automobiles or other features to give a clue. A shot with motive power would have been a real help here-i can just picture a set of Fs, or better yet, RS 3s, or better still, a Mohawk on the head end. Its definitely late October to look at the trees. The photo may have been taken by my grandfather, Frank Beckett.
Photo Date:  10/18/1953  Upload Date: 9/18/2014 2:42:10 AM
Location:  Poughkeepsie, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station,Action
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Views:  611   Comments: 2
Glint of steel
Title:  Glint of steel
Description:  My dad, uncle, and grandfather all went to Syracuse. Thus, football games were an important facet of their lives. This day in October of 1953 saw the Orangemen playing West Point. Dad was a senior that year, and my uncle Pete was a freshman. My grandparents lived on Long Island, so coming up to West Point for the game was not a long drive-not that long trips bothered them. I believe my grandfather, Frank Beckett, shot this NYC train across the Hudson River from the field. My guess is its a grab shot. He saw the train coming down the river and blasted off a frame, just because. At this point, its likely the power is a pair of Es-its too far away to tell if theyre E7s or E8s, Central had both-or possibly PAs or one of the few FMs NYC rostered, though either of those are unlikely here. Whatever they had, its a beautiful scene.
Photo Date:  10/24/1953  Upload Date: 4/17/2016 4:44:34 AM
Location:  Garrison, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
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Views:  250   Comments: 0
Ramapo valley
Title:  Ramapo valley
Description:  Dad was at the Motel on the Mountain in Suffern in the fall of 1960. I have no idea why. In any event, the motel has a commanding view of the area around Eries Hillburn Yard, which we are looking at way down below. At the east end of the yard, where the tracks go under the NY Thruway, can be seen four trains of Stilwell coaches in the passenger yard just west of the Suffern station. Out of view under the bridge is SF tower. I know dad was just looking to capture the stunning view, but it would have been really cool if he had caught a commuter train-looks like the right time of day from the sun angle-behind an E 8, or a freight with FTs. The multi lane highway sweeping from left to right across the photo is the NY Thruway. The ramps to and from it connect to NJ 17 to the south, as this location is right on the state line.
Photo Date:  9/16/1960  Upload Date: 5/14/2016 4:37:45 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Yard,Track
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Views:  298   Comments: 0
Ramapo valley looking north
Title:  Ramapo valley looking north
Description:  Or west by timetable. Dad was at the Motel on the Mountain in September 1960, and got this shot looking up the valley. The bridges in the lower right are NY 59 in front, then the two railroad bridges, which carry the Erie main line. Too bad he didnt have a train in the photo. Erie Es or FTs would have looked really good from up high. Thats the NY Thruway in the foreground.
Photo Date:  9/16/1960  Upload Date: 5/14/2016 4:41:35 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Track
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Views:  244   Comments: 1
CP van
Title:  CP van
Description:  The location is a guess, its somewhere in western Canada. Dad must have flown in, as there are some slides obviously shot from a plane in the same set. The date on the slide mount is Sep 1963. Dad was working in the paper lab at The New York Times then, so this must have been from a business trip to a paper mill, though I cant figure why he would have been on a train there.
Photo Date:  9/2/1963  Upload Date: 9/20/2014 1:18:27 AM
Location:  Kamloops, BC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock
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Views:  554   Comments: 2
GN plow
Title:  GN plow
Description:  Another guess on location. Slide mount is Oct 1963.
Photo Date:  9/2/1963  Upload Date: 9/20/2014 1:25:16 AM
Location:  Havre, MT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
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Morning rush
Title:  Morning rush
Description:  A morning commuter reads the paper on this Penn Station bound train, which is passing over the inlet to Alley Pond Park, with Little Neck Bay in the background. Dad is on an MP 54 this day in 1964.
Photo Date:  11/13/1964  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 4:52:36 AM
Location:  Douglaston, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 4948(Electric M.U.)
Views:  309   Comments: 0
Before the M 1s
Title:  Before the M 1s
Description:  There were few high platforms on the LIRR before 1968, most of those on the west end of the electrified territory, prior to the arrival of the M 1s in 1968. This is how Little Neck looked in December of 1964, before the high platforms were built, a project that would take place in late 1967. The shelter on the westbound platform would be removed as part of that project, but the station house would remain, as it does in 2016.
Photo Date:  12/12/1964  Upload Date: 4/17/2016 4:31:49 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Commuters view
Title:  Commuters view
Description:  Dad liked this spot, and shot the scene often, in all kinds of conditions. Today he got a hint of his conveyance in it, as the car number of the MP 54 he is on shows on the window reflection. This is Little Neck Bay.
Photo Date:  2/16/1965  Upload Date: 4/26/2016 5:15:25 AM
Location:  Douglaston, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 4971(Electric M.U.)
Views:  160   Comments: 0
Classy window
Title:  Classy window
Description:  The station at Little Neck was built in the late 19th century, its decoration typical of the period. The window was an elegant appointment with its stained glass.
Photo Date:  2/16/1965  Upload Date: 4/26/2016 5:19:06 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger
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Views:  118   Comments: 0
Rolling em by
Title:  Rolling em by
Description:  My brother William, at right and I, watch a Penn Station bound train led by an MP 70 double decker roll over the Little Neck Parkway crossing.
Photo Date:  5/22/1965  Upload Date: 4/26/2016 5:04:27 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 1322(Electric M.U.)
Views:  319   Comments: 0
A scouting we will go
Title:  A scouting we will go
Description:  A group of Boy Scouts waiting for a Penn Station bound train watches an eastbound approach the station at Bayside. I wish dad had waited just another 30 seconds, Id have had a shot of the eastbound passing the signal on the other track.
Photo Date:  7/17/1965  Upload Date: 4/24/2016 4:58:10 AM
Location:  Bayside, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  185   Comments: 0
Down by the station
Title:  Down by the station
Description:  The Little Neck station was walking distance from the house, and had a small store across the tracks, where dad would often get the paper on weekends. This was usually an occasion for a family outing, and wed pick up the Daily News, and of course, the Times, along with the usual assortment of kid stuff-baseball cards, candy, gum, etc. Many times, it included a stop at the station to see some action, though dad usually took more photos of us than of the trains. This one has both, as my brother William, almost three in this photo, observes an eastbound train in the old wooden shelter.
Photo Date:  7/17/1965  Upload Date: 4/27/2016 3:28:30 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  168   Comments: 0
Remember open windows??
Title:  Remember open windows??
Description:  Im riding to New York with dad on one of the MP 54s, one of whose features was windows that opened. In the next decade, air conditioned cars would become the norm on most trains, though in those early days of mass application of AC, there were often failures, and Id wish for the ability to open a window.
Photo Date:  7/30/1965  Upload Date: 4/27/2016 3:24:06 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
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Inside a double decker
Title:  Inside a double decker
Description:  A couple of girls chat while riding into New York on the upper level of one of LIRRs famed double deckers.
Photo Date:  7/15/1966  Upload Date: 5/4/2016 3:52:30 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger,Action
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Views:  252   Comments: 0
Approach in the rain
Title:  Approach in the rain
Description:  Dad got this shot from the eastbound platform at Little Neck. The westbound train has already been through, as the automatic is now at approach.
Photo Date:  11/20/1966  Upload Date: 5/4/2016 3:56:51 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Signal,Passenger
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Views:  155   Comments: 0
Rolling them by
Title:  Rolling them by
Description:  Another trip to the little store on the other side of the tracks, another chance to watch a train or two. My two brothers and I watch a Penn Station bound train roll over the Little Neck Parkway crossing. A Worlds Fair painted MP 72 trailer is in the consist.
Photo Date:  1/28/1967  Upload Date: 5/4/2016 4:42:21 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
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Views:  232   Comments: 0
Slogging home
Title:  Slogging home
Description:  But glad to have made it this far. We had some difficult winters in the 1960s, with a lot of snow and other unpleasant weather. The LIRR didnt always deal with it well, and many a commuters heart sank when they saw heavy weather coming in. A group of commuters has detrained at Little Neck and is walking down the platform, glad to be home on a snowy night. A double decker takes up the rear of the train, receding toward Great Neck.
Photo Date:  1/15/1968  Upload Date: 4/17/2016 4:19:32 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Night,Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  199   Comments: 0
Blue hour double decker
Title:  Blue hour double decker
Description:  A double decker leads this westbound train into a snowy dusk.
Photo Date:  1/15/1968  Upload Date: 4/17/2016 4:23:27 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Night,Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  204   Comments: 0
Rolling into history
Title:  Rolling into history
Description:  A Penn Station bound train led by an MP 54 rolls into Little Neck. By the time of this photo, the M 1s were on the way-note the newly built high platform-and these cars would be retired in 1972 once there were enough M 1s in service to cover the schedules.
Photo Date:  2/3/1968  Upload Date: 4/12/2016 2:17:13 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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MP 72
Title:  MP 72
Description:  The LIRR had a variety of MU cars in the pre M 1 era. One such class was the MP 72s, which came in several incarnations. Among them were 25 control cars, equipped with motorman controls. One of them leads this westbound train during a foggy rush hour.
Photo Date:  2/5/1968  Upload Date: 4/12/2016 2:21:17 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Lonely wait
Title:  Lonely wait
Description:  A sole rider waits on a snowy platform at Little Neck as one of the New York areas biggest snow storms gets underway. By the next day, everything in the city and on Long Island will come to a halt under almost 20" of snow.
Photo Date:  2/15/1969  Upload Date: 3/19/2016 4:08:05 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Night,Station,Passenger
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Views:  182   Comments: 0
Gathering storm
Title:  Gathering storm
Description:  A wide view of a prevous shot shows the Little Neck station area as the Valentines Day blizzard of 1969 rolls in. Before it was done, there would be 20" of snow in the city. We had ten foot drifts on our block. The city came in with front end loaders to clear the street-ten days later. The bonus was, of course, no school and lots of sledding in our hilly neighborhood-and diesel powered trains with pairs of RS 1s. Too bad I didnt get any photos-I was 9 years old then.
Photo Date:  2/15/1969  Upload Date: 3/19/2016 4:17:51 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Night,Station,Passenger
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Views:  184   Comments: 0
Welcome sight
Title:  Welcome sight
Description:  Id welcome seeing a double decker of this type in any weather, but on this snowy evening, its really good to see. The storm would drop 20" over the weekend, and by Monday, only diesel powered trains would be running, on a very erratic schedule.
Photo Date:  2/15/1969  Upload Date: 3/19/2016 4:30:27 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Night,Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  273   Comments: 0
After the blizzard
Title:  After the blizzard
Description:  Valentines Day 1969 was a remarkable weekend. The NY area got around 20" of snow, and the LIRR was buried, like everything else. It took them a while to get all the snow off the platforms, so this was the scene around Wednesday of the following week. It was a mess. Look how deep the snow is on the tracks. The railroad ran pairs of RS 1's on trains here for several weeks after the snowstorm, as many of the MU trains were having problems with poor third rail contact. It was a great show for me, but I was 9 years old. If only I'd been able to get some photos.
Photo Date:  2/19/1969  Upload Date: 4/12/2016 2:36:19 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger
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Sunset on the snow
Title:  Sunset on the snow
Description:  It was a rough February in 1969, with a 20" snowfall over Valentines Day. The sunset comes as the snow covers the tracks on the Port Washington Branch.
Photo Date:  2/19/1969  Upload Date: 4/12/2016 2:44:36 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Track
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Views:  158   Comments: 0
Slogging to work
Title:  Slogging to work
Description:  Within a week or so, the LIRR managed to get the electric lines cleared enough to run MU trains again, and resume some semblance of service. Thus its off to work, the commuters plodding through the snow to get to the platform and onto the train. This run is headed by one of the LIRRs double deckers, one of the more interesting pieces of rolling stock in the NY area.
Photo Date:  2/20/1969  Upload Date: 3/19/2016 4:21:51 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
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Dashing Dan through the snow
Title:  Dashing Dan through the snow
Description:  A New York bound train arrives at Little Neck, plowing through the trough in the snow, now clear enough so the contact shoes can reach the third rail. An MP 70, better know to us as a double decker, leads this MU train.
Photo Date:  2/20/1969  Upload Date: 3/19/2016 4:23:32 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
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Cold vestibule
Title:  Cold vestibule
Description:  Dad stepped out into the vestibule to grab a shot looking from his car into the MP 72 behind. The vestibules were a pleasant place to ride in the warm weather. Not so much the week after a snow storm.
Photo Date:  2/20/1969  Upload Date: 3/19/2016 4:27:18 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Passenger,Action
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Blue Hour
Title:  Blue Hour
Description:  Dad was always playing with light conditions. One of his quests was to capture the "blue hour"-that twilight time where everything has a blue tone to it, giving the scene a very moody look. He did a good job here capturing it on an eastbound LIRR train approaching Little Neck around 1969. Im guessing from the profile of the car its a double decker leading. But who really knows.....
Photo Date:  3/1/1969  Upload Date: 12/4/2014 4:07:44 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Passenger,Action
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Views:  312   Comments: 2
The blizzard is upon us
Title:  The blizzard is upon us
Description:  February of 1969 was a momentous weather month, with NY City getting one of its all time heaviest snowfalls. The snow is coming down as dad shot the tranquility of Little Neck station. It was the calm at the beginning of the storm, as the next few weeks would be chaos on the railroad. The up side for me was the double slotted RS 1s that would handle the train til the snow was cleared enough to allow the MUs to consistently reach the third rail.
Photo Date:  3/15/1969  Upload Date: 5/4/2016 4:06:36 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Night,Station,Passenger
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Views:  191   Comments: 0
Critter
Title:  Critter
Description:  In May 1970, the Cub Scout pack I was in, Pack 406 sponsored by Christ Lutheran Church in Little Neck, arranged a tour of the LIRR Morris Park shop. Dad got some photos, though apparently not many slides. Here we are at the transfer table at the car shop, as a LIRR official explains what it is and what it does. GE 25 tonner 399 was the shop engine that day.
Photo Date:  5/16/1970  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 4:31:33 AM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 399(25 Tonner)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
MP 54s too
Title:  MP 54s too
Description:  An MP 54 was also at the shop near the turntable, though I cant figure why it would be there.
Photo Date:  5/16/1970  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 4:37:56 AM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 4173(Electric M.U.)
Views:  493   Comments: 0
RS 1s
Title:  RS 1s
Description:  There was equipment and power all over at the shop. Were walking across the turntable, getting a view of RS 1s 463 and 461 in what I think of as the best LIRR paint scheme ever.
Photo Date:  5/16/1970  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 4:35:58 AM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 463(RS1) LI 461(RS1)
Views:  746   Comments: 0
Headed to the shop
Title:  Headed to the shop
Description:  A look at the Pack 406 members and some parents who were on the Morris Park tour, riding the lead car of an MU train, one of the famous LIRR MP 54s. Note the ad for the Long Island Press. It would vanish into history in a few years, overshadowed by rival Newsday, which is still a big player in the New York newspaper market.
Photo Date:  5/16/1970  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 4:40:05 AM
Location:  Floral Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 4912(Electric M.U.)
Views:  253   Comments: 0
Anticipation
Title:  Anticipation
Description:  The group from Cub Scout Pack 406 waits for the train at Floral Park. Normally, Main Line trains did not make this stop, despite there being platforms for both the Main Line and Hempstead Branch here. The LIRR made a special stop for us, since the equipment we would be riding was going to the shop after it reached Jamaica. The signal bridge at the end of the platform is no longer there. I dont know when it came down, but is was prior to the early 80s.
Photo Date:  5/16/1970  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 4:46:59 AM
Location:  Floral Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger
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Car shop
Title:  Car shop
Description:  Were in the car shop at Morris Park as a LIRR official explains the work that is done there, including wheel truing and sheet metal work on the cars. In the background is a coach still in the Worlds Fair blue and orange, and a little farther back, a similar car now in what is becoming the MTA standard platinum must and blue, roughly matching the new M 1s which were being delivered at the time.
Photo Date:  5/16/1970  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 4:57:24 AM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
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Intrested crowd
Title:  Intrested crowd
Description:  The group of Cub Scouts gathers to hear what is done at the passenger car shops at Morris Park.
Photo Date:  5/16/1970  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 4:59:02 AM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard
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Already a fan
Title:  Already a fan
Description:  Dad caught this shot of me on an M 1 train riding into the city from Little Neck. I was 11 that year.
Photo Date:  6/13/1970  Upload Date: 4/14/2016 4:09:14 AM
Location:  Sunnyside, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
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Driving force
Title:  Driving force
Description:  A pair of the drivers on LIRR 35, close up.
Photo Date:  7/4/1970  Upload Date: 4/19/2016 2:59:19 AM
Location:  East Meadow, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  LI 35(4-6-2)
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Nose on
Title:  Nose on
Description:  LIRR 35s smokebox, the engine now on display at Salisbury Park in Nassau county.
Photo Date:  7/4/1970  Upload Date: 4/19/2016 3:02:12 AM
Location:  East Meadow, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  LI 35(4-6-2)
Views:  345   Comments: 1
Stuffed and mounted
Title:  Stuffed and mounted
Description:  Two of LIRRs G 5 4-6-0s were spared. The other was 39, now undergoing a long restoration project, and this one, 35, at Salisbury Park in East Meadow. Dad took us down to see it July 4th weekend, and got this shot of it. Looking pretty good for being out in the elements for the previous 15 years.
Photo Date:  7/4/1970  Upload Date: 4/19/2016 3:04:28 AM
Location:  East Meadow, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  LI 35(4-6-2)
Views:  422   Comments: 0
Thats high
Title:  Thats high
Description:  Dad shot this from the Little Neck Parkway grade crossing at the west end of the platform. These are the new high level platforms built to accommodate the new M 1 cars. Compare with the 1964 shot of the station, whose low platforms can be seen under the new structure, prior to the new platforms. My brother John looks on.
Photo Date:  7/4/1970  Upload Date: 4/19/2016 3:08:01 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Track
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Insulated joint
Title:  Insulated joint
Description:  There was a road crossing at Little Neck at the west end of the station, where Little Neck Parkway intersected the tracks. Trains would stop just clear of the crossing, allowing the gates to go up. This was the relay case for the crossing gates, in between the rails. A Great Neck bound train of M 1s moves away in the distance.
Photo Date:  10/12/1970  Upload Date: 4/12/2016 1:51:20 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Track,Action
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Pulling away
Title:  Pulling away
Description:  One of the new M 1s pulling away from Little Neck, seen from the Little Neck Parkway crossing.
Photo Date:  10/16/1970  Upload Date: 4/12/2016 2:22:51 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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M 1s
Title:  M 1s
Description:  M 1s were still new-the last ones would not be delivered til 1974-so this was a novelty at this time. A train of them arrives at Little Neck, headed for Penn Station.
Photo Date:  10/18/1970  Upload Date: 4/12/2016 2:03:20 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Why position lights are good in poor conditions
Title:  Why position lights are good in poor conditions
Description:  Dad shot signal 124 on the Port Wahshington Branch, just west of Little Neck Parkway. The amber lights area easily seen in the fog, and there is little ambiguity that this is a clear indication. Aside from that, they are also fun to watch as they go through the sequence of indications.
Photo Date:  1/16/1971  Upload Date: 4/14/2016 3:53:02 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Signal
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View from the bridge
Title:  View from the bridge
Description:  Dad tried this shot of Douglaston station from the Douglaston Parkway overpass. It seemed to work. Hopefully I will find such a shot with a train in it at some point.
Photo Date:  2/7/1971  Upload Date: 4/24/2016 5:06:01 AM
Location:  Douglaston, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Night,Station,Passenger
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Knocking it down
Title:  Knocking it down
Description:  A westbound Port Washington train has knocked down the automatic at Little Neck, setting it to stop and proceed. It will go to approach when the train passes the next signal west, next to the bay after passing Douglaston. The street to the right, 39th Av, locally known as the "back road" because you could get to Douglaston on it without going out to Northern Blvd, had some misadventures over the years. One night around 1980, I was in the little store to the right when the gates went down. A car pulled up, its front hood under the gate. An express train from Great Neck to Penn Station clipped the front of the car, flipping it around, and demolishing the battery and radiator. The driver was not happy, but the cop who responded to the accident was not sympathetic.
Photo Date:  2/20/1971  Upload Date: 4/16/2016 5:04:37 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
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Making its stop
Title:  Making its stop
Description:  A Port Washington train of the new M 1's has dropped it riders at the new high level platform.
Photo Date:  2/20/1971  Upload Date: 4/19/2016 3:10:20 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
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