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Owner: Long Island Rail Road Company
Model:Rebuilt Alco Power CarBuilt As:SPS 856A-2 (FA1)
Serial Number:76672Order No:20308
Frame Number:Alco prime mover # 10836Built:2/1949
Notes:blt as SP&S FA1 856A-2, re# 857, BN 4102
Other locos with this serial:  SPS 857(FA1) LI 611(Power Car)
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LI 611 waits for its connection from the west
Title:  LI 611 waits for its connection from the west
Description:  Actual date not known.
Photo Date:  1/1/1972  Upload Date: 5/28/2022 10:25:31 PM
Location:  Huntington, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  136   Comments: 1
LI 611 on the move east
Title:  LI 611 on the move east
Description:  Actual date not known.
Photo Date:  1/1/1972  Upload Date: 5/28/2022 10:12:57 PM
Location:  Greenlawn, NY
Author:  Richard Glueck
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  137   Comments: 2
LI 611 waits for its connection from the west
Title:  LI 611 waits for its connection from the west
Description:  Actual date not known.
Photo Date:  1/1/1972  Upload Date: 5/28/2022 10:25:40 PM
Location:  Huntington, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  119   Comments: 1
LI 611
Title:  LI 611
Description:  A former SP&S Alco FA on a LIRR passenger train departing St. James on the Port Jefferson branch. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/3/2010 11:28:33 AM
Location:  Saint James, NY
Author:  Stephen J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  707   Comments: 1
LI 611
Title:  LI 611
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1973  Upload Date: 2/9/2020 7:50:28 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  371   Comments: 3
LI 611
Title:  LI 611
Description:  An eastbound push-pull passenger train in "pull" mode departs Smithtown on the Port Jefferson branch. LI 611 was ex-BN 4102, nee-SP&S 857. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1973  Upload Date: 12/3/2010 10:25:50 AM
Location:  Smithtown, NY
Author:  Stephen J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  676   Comments: 0
LI 611
Title:  LI 611
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/11/1975  Upload Date: 11/4/2020 10:19:27 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  234   Comments: 2
LI 611 on a rare 2 car push pull train!
Title:  LI 611 on a rare 2 car push pull train!
Description:  For my 10,000 photo here I wanted to upload something special. It was almost a photo of PRR 4666, but I overlooked it when uploading that batch!
Photo Date:  11/1/1975  Upload Date: 8/2/2016 9:16:33 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  585   Comments: 2
LI 611 on Ronkonkoma Train
Title:  LI 611 on Ronkonkoma Train
Description:  Actual day not recorded.
Photo Date:  4/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/11/2020 10:01:52 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  315   Comments: 1
LI 611
Title:  LI 611
Description:  Actual day not recorded.
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/21/2020 9:37:08 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  279   Comments: 2
LI 611
Title:  LI 611
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/4/1976  Upload Date: 3/15/2013 6:03:07 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Philip M. Goldstein
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  484   Comments: 0
Unlikely place for an FA
Title:  Unlikely place for an FA
Description:  The LIRR was running diesel trains on its electrified branches following one of the heavy snows that blanketed the region that winter, using typical train sets with a GP 38 up front and an FA in the rear, allowing this rare view of an FA on the Port Washington Branch.
Photo Date:  2/15/1978  Upload Date: 12/2/2016 4:58:14 AM
Location:  Little Neck, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  437   Comments: 2
FA2 #611 at Jamaica
Title:  FA2 #611 at Jamaica
Description:  Busy Commuter Transfer in 1977
Photo Date:  9/30/1978  Upload Date: 4/19/2012 4:50:23 PM
Location:  Nassau Shores, NY
Author:  Robert Huron
Categories:  Station,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  389   Comments: 0
3 trains here!
Title:  3 trains here!
Description:  611 WB approaches Merillon Ave sta. and 2 other FAs meet near Mineola
Photo Date:  10/1/1978  Upload Date: 1/5/2007 7:15:35 PM
Location:  Merillon Ave., NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  994   Comments: 0
LI 269
Title:  LI 269
Description:  Geeps on both ends!
Photo Date:  2/1/1979  Upload Date: 6/22/2016 10:21:33 PM
Location:  Merillon Ave., NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 269(GP38-2) LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  470   Comments: 0
LI 269 on the rear of an Oyster Bay train
Title:  LI 269 on the rear of an Oyster Bay train
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/1/1979  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 9:45:39 PM
Location:  Merillon Ave., NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 269(GP38-2) LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  219   Comments: 2
LI 611
Title:  LI 611
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/20/1979  Upload Date: 5/19/2020 12:41:47 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  273   Comments: 1
LI 611
Title:  LI 611
Description:  Actual day not recorded.
Photo Date:  2/1/1980  Upload Date: 5/15/2020 12:06:01 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  269   Comments: 1
LI 399 in new paint
Title:  LI 399 in new paint
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/1980  Upload Date: 6/9/2016 2:35:30 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 399(25 Tonner) LI 611(Power Car) LI 250(GP38-2)
Views:  587   Comments: 5
College town stop
Title:  College town stop
Description:  LIRR 611 leads a westbound Oyster Bay train into Greenvale. The sign notes it is the stop for CW Post College, and NY Institute of Technology. CW Post-founded with money from the cereal magnate-was by then part of the Long Island University system. One omission on the sign is the NY Chiropractic College, which was adjacent to CW Post just to the east on NY 25A.
Photo Date:  3/4/1986  Upload Date: 11/18/2014 2:45:22 AM
Location:  Greenvale, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  552   Comments: 1
Waiting
Title:  Waiting
Description:  A westbound behind FA 2 611 waits for its eastbound meet at Smithtown.
Photo Date:  5/13/1986  Upload Date: 11/21/2014 1:05:10 AM
Location:  Smithtown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  441   Comments: 0
Watching
Title:  Watching
Description:  A westbound train watches the signals at Smithtown, waiting for the eastbound it is meeting to come by so it can get the board on the classic Pennsy signal.
Photo Date:  5/13/1986  Upload Date: 11/21/2014 1:07:19 AM
Location:  Smithtown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  419   Comments: 0
FA power 611 in front of the Captree Shopping Center
Title:  FA power 611 in front of the Captree Shopping Center
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/14/1987  Upload Date: 1/23/2009 7:27:13 PM
Location:  Babylon, NY
Author:  Michael Desoi
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  717   Comments: 0
All quiet
Title:  All quiet
Description:  A Sunday afternoon finds a train in the yard waiting for tomorrows rush, and a westbound with its power on the west end of the train, an MP 15 cab first, ready for morning.
Photo Date:  8/2/1987  Upload Date: 5/22/2015 1:07:40 AM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 152(MP15AC) LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  546   Comments: 0
Another Oyster Bay train
Title:  Another Oyster Bay train
Description:  Another Oyster Bay train, another FA. This one is leading up the hill into Floral Park. Four cars with an MP 15 for motive power was a typical consist on that line.
Photo Date:  8/30/1987  Upload Date: 5/25/2015 2:06:51 AM
Location:  Floral Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  456   Comments: 0
Mighty mite
Title:  Mighty mite
Description:  The smallest power on the LIRR was two shop switchers that worked at Morris Park. They could be seen spotting power around the shop area, but were hard to come by from the road. Here we see 397 from Atlantic Av in company of some other interesting power.
Photo Date:  10/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 2:45:17 AM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 397(25 Tonner) LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  492   Comments: 0
Wishful thinking
Title:  Wishful thinking
Description:  A pair of FAs is coupled elephant style at the Morris Park shop, probably dreaming of the days when theyd go out like this on heavy freight. Ah, the memories!! Note the coupler on 105. This is one of the Harold protect engines, along with 101. They are fitted with couplers that will mate with the M 1 and M 3 cars, and are stationed at Harold Tower in LI City, to fetch a disabled MU train should it be necessary. The pair would shortly be repainted in a dark gray/orange scheme, a 1960's retro paint job that was quite attractive on them.
Photo Date:  10/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/31/2015 2:47:21 AM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car) LI 617(Power Car) LI 105(SW1001)
Views:  728   Comments: 0
Another 611
Title:  Another 611
Description:  LI 611, an FA, leads a Jamaica bound Oyster Bay train
Photo Date:  12/6/1987  Upload Date: 11/18/2011 2:24:51 AM
Location:  Floral Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  589   Comments: 0
FA 611 leads
Title:  FA 611 leads
Description:  An Oyster Bay train with an FA leading pushes up the grade to the Floral Park station. The grade came about as the result of the railiroad lifing the tracks up on a viaduct that took the station and junction above street level in the early 60s.
Photo Date:  12/6/1987  Upload Date: 6/17/2015 4:15:33 AM
Location:  Floral Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  456   Comments: 0
Rolling through
Title:  Rolling through
Description:  A westbound Oyster Bay train crosses New Hyde Park Rd and passes the station as it makes for Jamaica.
Photo Date:  12/13/1987  Upload Date: 6/18/2015 2:13:12 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  421   Comments: 0
Big picture
Title:  Big picture
Description:  This westbound led by an FA shows the whole Queens Village station area, as well as the west end of Queens interlocking-Queens tower is behind the third car in the train. The station is largely intact, the ticket office, though is down below off Springfield Blvd. Still, its a good looking structure in 1988. The signals are the west limit of Queens, where trains will go onto either the Main Line, which is the two north tracks;or the Hempstead Branch, the two south tracks. Theyll run alongside each other as far as Floral Park. The tower also controls the wye connection to the Belmont Spur, leading to Belmont Racetrack, which connects from track 4 at far right.
Photo Date:  1/10/1988  Upload Date: 6/25/2015 4:48:39 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  353   Comments: 1
Rolling into town
Title:  Rolling into town
Description:  An Oyster Bay train led by an FA rolls slowly past the section house and through Nassau interlocking and will shortly be in Mineola for its station stop.
Photo Date:  4/21/1988  Upload Date: 7/12/2015 4:25:56 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  389   Comments: 0
Westbound Scoot
Title:  Westbound Scoot
Description:  The westbound Greenport Scoot passes thru Calverton
Photo Date:  12/27/1989  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 1:14:59 AM
Location:  Calverton, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  622   Comments: 0
Always good to see an old friend
Title:  Always good to see an old friend
Description:  Power pack 611 is bringing up the rear on this Oyster Bay train as it clears the main, which will shortly be rocked by another eastbound. Nassau tower, behind the second car, controls the action. In 2016, it still does.
Photo Date:  5/7/1990  Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:53:26 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
A different 611
Title:  A different 611
Description:  Long Island used modified Alco FA's to provide train hotel power, and as control cabs. They were typically on the west end of trains, making photography of them leading somewhat problematic on their morning westbound runs. This one is pulling away as the train heads through Nassau interlocking and up the Oyster Bay branch. Of note are two buildings in the background. The first, seen above the second car from the FA, is Nassau tower. The Long Island may have the most active towers of any railroad in America at this point in history. The second notable structure is the ivy covered building immediately behind the FA. It was once a power station for the LIRR electrified lines, which, in addition to the Main Line west, also included third rail to East Williston on the Oyster Bay branch, and on the line that turned south here to reach Garden City and Hempstead. It was once possible to go from Mineola to West Hempstead and Valley Stream by train.
Photo Date:  5/19/1990  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:47:06 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  564   Comments: 1
Local Scoot Layover
Title:  Local Scoot Layover
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/1993  Upload Date: 11/2/2012 11:49:14 PM
Location:  Patchogue, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  517   Comments: 0
611 at Greenport
Title:  611 at Greenport
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/8/1994  Upload Date: 12/25/2012 9:46:13 AM
Location:  Greenport, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  605   Comments: 1
Power cars at Speonk
Title:  Power cars at Speonk
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/16/1996  Upload Date: 10/1/2018 3:47:25 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 622(Power Car) LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  358   Comments: 1
EMD 622 and Alco 611
Title:  EMD 622 and Alco 611
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/16/1996  Upload Date: 5/20/2013 11:24:08 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car) LI 622(Power Car)
Views:  491   Comments: 0
CR 4133 on SECA
Title:  CR 4133 on SECA
Description:  CR 4133 is on the point of SECA at Ridgefield Park, NJ 6/1999
Photo Date:  6/1/1999  Upload Date: 4/15/2008 2:12:28 AM
Location:  Ridgefield Park, NJ
Author:  John Durant
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 4133(SD70MAC) CSX 139(AC44CW) LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  2053   Comments: 2
CR 4133 on SECA
Title:  CR 4133 on SECA
Description:  Conrail 4133 is on the point of SECA at Bogota, NJ 6/1999 shortly after the Conrail split between CSX and NS.
Photo Date:  6/1/1999  Upload Date: 4/7/2009 6:05:32 PM
Location:  Bogota, NJ
Author:  John Durant
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 4133(SD70MAC) CSX 139(AC44CW) LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  1793   Comments: 1
LIRR 611
Title:  LIRR 611
Description:  LIRR 611 dead in tow on train SESA at CP-7 in Bogota, NJ on River Line
Photo Date:  6/23/1999  Upload Date: 7/31/2006 2:41:44 PM
Location:  Bogota, NJ
Author:  Mark Merker
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  827   Comments: 0
LI 611,614 being restored by a private owner
Title:  LI 611,614 being restored by a private owner
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/24/2002  Upload Date: 11/9/2004 5:45:26 PM
Location:  Bridgeton, NJ
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 614(Power Car) LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  1723   Comments: 0
LIRR 611, 602
Title:  LIRR 611, 602
Description:  Work progresses on LI 611 at W&W shops
Photo Date:  5/13/2006  Upload Date: 5/17/2006 8:24:35 PM
Location:  Bridgeton, NJ
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car) LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  1586   Comments: 0
LIRR 611
Title:  LIRR 611
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/11/2009  Upload Date: 10/5/2009 1:05:20 PM
Location:  Dividing Creek, NJ
Author:  Jeffrey Pfeiffer
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  1048   Comments: 0
LI 611
Title:  LI 611
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/30/2013  Upload Date: 1/1/2014 6:39:45 PM
Location:  Dividing Creek, NJ
Author:  John Danielson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  1057   Comments: 3
LI 601
Title:  LI 601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/30/2013  Upload Date: 1/1/2014 7:12:32 PM
Location:  Dividing Creek, NJ
Author:  John Danielson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 601(Power Car) LI 611(Power Car) EMCO 7201(RS11) EMCO 7202(RS11) LI 614(Power Car)
Views:  1653   Comments: 2
Deadline in Dividing Creek
Title:  Deadline in Dividing Creek
Description:  An array of equipment and locomotives rusts away along Railroad Ave in Dividing Creek
Photo Date:  11/7/2014  Upload Date: 11/8/2014 12:51:15 AM
Location:  Dividing Creek, NJ
Author:  Ben Kranefeld
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  BCOL RCC1(Road Slug) BCOL RCC-2(Road Slug) VIA 6863(FPB4) ALGX 7202(RS11) ALGX 7201(RS11) LI 611(Power Car) LI 614(Power Car) LI 601(Power Car)
Views:  1955   Comments: 2
LI 611
Title:  LI 611
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/7/2014  Upload Date: 11/8/2014 12:32:11 AM
Location:  Dividing Creek, NJ
Author:  Ben Kranefeld
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  1041   Comments: 1
LI 611
Title:  LI 611
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/22/2015  Upload Date: 9/16/2023 9:48:39 PM
Location:  Dividing Creek, NJ
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 611(Power Car)
Views:  71   Comments: 0


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