Long Island Rail Road Company (LI) 607 - Rebuilt Alco Power Car

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Still with one of its WM 5 chime horns. Actual date not known. 35mm photo.

Actual date not known. 126 Instamatic photo.

126 Instamatic photo.

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607 just repainted. Actual day not recorded.

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Passing Kings Park hospital siding. Freight did run here today! Actual day not recorded.

Montauk yard on a summer weekend

Except for one morning rush train, everything that came in the Main Line from Mineola made its last stop before Jamaica at New Hyde Park, about 1/4 mile to the east. This Port Jeff train made its last stop at Mineola, and is getting a good roll on as it approaches the upgrade to Floral Park on its way to LIRRs main transfer point.

The FA trailing this eastbound Ronkonkoma train is playing in the shadows of the signal bridge as it makes its way into Queens interlocking on a cold day shortly before Christmas. A month from now, this run will be covered by MUs.

A freshly painted FA 2 leads this westbound Oyster Bay train past Bellerose.

Well, the paint is-we all know that Alcos were heavy smokers, though by this time, these units had Caterpillar engine/generator sets installed, and were much more efficient and cleaner running. This is a Ronkonkoma train headed east.

Nice shot of the end power car of an eastbound train next to the Mineola, NY, station platform. Mike Woodruff helped locate and date this photo. He mentioned that the 607 got those nose marker lights in the fall of 1975, but it's clearly summer in your shot. By 1979, the 607 had small "607" numerals centered on the nose, just above the pilot. Therefore, this photo was taken by an unknown photographer between 1976-78.

A Port Jeff train pulls away on this snowy day with an FA trailing, as it usually does.

It was encouraging to see LIRR still painting its FAs this late in their careers. The Ronkonkoma electrification project would open in a year, and their future was clouded.

An FA 2 converted to a power car rolls west with a Ronkonkoma train

An Oyster Bay train waits on track 1 as a westbound Ronkonkoma train behind an FA 2 passes on track 2.

LI 607 brings up the rear of an Oyster Bay train taking the branch. In the photo, we see Nassau tower, and to its right, the power station that once supplied third rail power for the line that ran to a connection with the Hempstead Branch at Garden, a few miles south in Garden City, a line which was abandoned in the late 60s. I am standing on the extended platform, located where the connection to the branch once ran-it surved around to the right of the power station. Nassau was once a larger junction than now, with the Main Line going east and west, and connections to Oyster Bay and the south shore via the branch to Hempstead.

Another FA, 607 this time, trails a Port Jeff train as it passes Nassau tower and bounds over the Main St and Willis Av crossings.

FA 2 607 has the west end of a Ronkonkoma train

An FA leads a westbound Oyster Bay train toward Jamaica and connections to New York and Brooklyn

Westbound Oyster Bay train.

From a 126 Instamatic print. LI 607 in fresh paint laying over for the weekend.

Photo by ?. Mazzarone

For the power on this train see: http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1567503

From a 35mm slide.

A close look at the classic Alco nose of Long Island 607 at Sayville on the Montauk branch. Date of photo approximate.

Alcos meet just west of Huntington Station on the Port Jefferson branch. RS2 1520 was ex-D&H 4020, later Detroit & Mackinac 977. FA2m 607 was ex-WM 303. Date approximate.

WB between Mill Neck and Locust Valley on the Oyster Bay branch. Date approximate.

LIRR critter 398 gets ready to hostle FA-2 607 at Morris Park e/f.