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Valley tower
Title:  Valley tower
Description:  Valley interlocking tower, as seen from the front window of a Budd M-1 on a westbound train from Long Beach to Jamaica. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/19/2021 6:09:41 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Views:  151   Comments: 0
LI 2503
Title:  LI 2503
Description:  On its last assignments on the West Hempstead branch before conversion to push-pull cars. Taken with an Ansco 620 camera. Exact date not known.
Photo Date:  10/1/1973  Upload Date: 6/20/2016 11:34:56 AM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
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Locomotives:  LI 2503(ACMU)
Views:  657   Comments: 1
LI 2517 on West Hempstead train
Title:  LI 2517 on West Hempstead train
Description:  Assignments for them their last days.
Photo Date:  10/1/1973  Upload Date: 5/29/2021 10:20:55 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 2517(ACMU)
Views:  198   Comments: 1
LI 2519
Title:  LI 2519
Description:  The only one with a horn, which came from their wrecked RDC.
Photo Date:  10/1/1973  Upload Date: 3/29/2022 9:18:16 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 2519(ACMU)
Views:  117   Comments: 1
LI 463 on the W. Hemp. freight
Title:  LI 463 on the W. Hemp. freight
Description:  Waiting for clearance from Valley tower. Actual date of photo not documented.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 6/21/2016 11:56:59 AM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
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Locomotives:  LI 463(RS1)
Views:  638   Comments: 0
LI 463
Title:  LI 463
Description:  RF-48 waits for a signal for the West Hempstead branch
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 5/31/2021 9:19:05 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 463(RS1)
Views:  224   Comments: 2
LI 451 on a freight
Title:  LI 451 on a freight
Description:  Actual date not known. 126 Instamatic photo.
Photo Date:  1/1/1975  Upload Date: 2/12/2022 8:36:56 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 451(S2)
Views:  141   Comments: 0
Rolling on the south shore
Title:  Rolling on the south shore
Description:  Most Montauk trains ran the Central Branch and the Main Line via Hicksville, though if they did not have any stops(some made Mineola, and at least one south shore train during the week made Bethpage), the dispatcher had his choice of routes. This Montauk train was one of those, and we see it rolling west through Valley Stream on its way to city connections at Jamaica. Valley tower, at right of the train, controls the tracks going off to the right, the Far Rockaway Branch, and a connection to the West Hempstead Branch, which diverges to the left out of the photo beyond the train of M 1's in the distance.
Photo Date:  6/12/1988  Upload Date: 8/15/2015 1:50:57 AM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 273(GP38-2)
Views:  240   Comments: 0
Coming off the branch
Title:  Coming off the branch
Description:  A westbound Far Rockaway train rolls off the branch and onto the Montauk Branch at Valley Stream. It will follow the Atlantic Branch from here, reaching Jamaica via Laurelton.
Photo Date:  6/12/1988  Upload Date: 8/15/2015 2:02:06 AM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 9815(M-3 Metropolitan)
Views:  216   Comments: 0
West Hempstead train
Title:  West Hempstead train
Description:  A West Hempstead train rolls through Valley interlocking and into the station. It has come off the branch, which diverges to the left beyond Valley tower, and will connect here with Far Rockaway and Long Beach trains. West Hempstead was a poor stepchild on the west end, seeing only token service-about every two hours on weekends.
Photo Date:  6/12/1988  Upload Date: 8/15/2015 2:06:09 AM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 9883(M-3 Metropolitan)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
Rolling for Babylon
Title:  Rolling for Babylon
Description:  An eastbound Babylon train rolls out of the sun as it gets up to speed for the run east.
Photo Date:  6/12/1988  Upload Date: 8/15/2015 2:07:56 AM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  97   Comments: 0
West into the sun
Title:  West into the sun
Description:  A westbound Babylon train rolls into the late day sun as it heads for Jamaica and Penn Station. Note the PRR style pedestal position light signal. It is showing a stop indication. These were unique to the PRR and affiliates. It was like a dwarf, but on a pole for better visibility. The indications were read as if on a dwarf signal. Two lights vertical would be a "slow clear" indication.
Photo Date:  6/12/1988  Upload Date: 8/15/2015 2:10:39 AM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
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Views:  176   Comments: 0
Rolling in for a stop
Title:  Rolling in for a stop
Description:  A Long Beach train rolls past Valley tower and into the station to make its stop here.
Photo Date:  6/12/1988  Upload Date: 8/15/2015 2:26:34 AM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
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Views:  136   Comments: 0
Another Long Beach train
Title:  Another Long Beach train
Description:  Long Beach trains ran more often than Far Rockaway trains, once an hour, so they were well represented here. A westbound rolls into Valley Stream.
Photo Date:  6/12/1988  Upload Date: 8/15/2015 2:36:10 AM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  95   Comments: 0
Westbound MUs
Title:  Westbound MUs
Description:  A New York bound train from Babylon passes the station at Valley Stream. Montauk Branch trains use the two northerly tracks here, with Far Rockaway, West Hempstead and Long Beach Branch trains using the two south tracks. Note the pedestal signal at the end of the platform-essentially a dwarf on a stick. Valley tower, just beyond the station, controls the action.
Photo Date:  6/19/1988  Upload Date: 2/20/2012 1:37:31 AM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
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Views:  181   Comments: 0
Westbound curving onto the main
Title:  Westbound curving onto the main
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/23/2002  Upload Date: 4/17/2009 7:43:11 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Paul Leach
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 9047(M-1 Metropolitan)
Views:  421   Comments: 0
Westbound past the tower
Title:  Westbound past the tower
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/23/2002  Upload Date: 4/17/2009 7:43:39 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Paul Leach
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Views:  77   Comments: 0
Eastbound out of the city
Title:  Eastbound out of the city
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/23/2002  Upload Date: 4/17/2009 7:44:04 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Paul Leach
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Views:  76   Comments: 0
Valley Stream interlocking eastbound
Title:  Valley Stream interlocking eastbound
Description:  Valley Stream interlocking eastbound
Photo Date:  11/22/2011  Upload Date: 12/23/2015 4:04:48 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Rudolph Schubert
Categories:  Station,Signal,Track
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Views:  124   Comments: 0
Valley Stream interlocking westbound
Title:  Valley Stream interlocking westbound
Description:  Valley Stream interlocking westbound
Photo Date:  11/22/2011  Upload Date: 12/23/2015 4:05:58 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Rudolph Schubert
Categories:  Station,Signal,Track
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Views:  158   Comments: 0
Valley Stream interlocking LIRR
Title:  Valley Stream interlocking LIRR
Description:  Valley Stream interlocking LIRR
Photo Date:  12/22/2011  Upload Date: 12/22/2015 11:30:45 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Rudolph Schubert
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Signal,Passenger,Track
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Views:  191   Comments: 2
Valley Stream interlocking map
Title:  Valley Stream interlocking map
Description:  Valley Stream interlocking map showing where 5 brabches meet. Atlantic, Montauk, Long Beach, Far Rockaway, and West Hempstead Branches interlock here.
Photo Date:  12/22/2015  Upload Date: 12/27/2015 7:36:58 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author: 
Categories:  Yard,Station,Track
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Views:  104   Comments: 0
Waiting on the platform
Title:  Waiting on the platform
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/2017  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 9:51:15 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Kurt Von Dietsch
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 7311(M-7 MU)
Views:  229   Comments: 0
A wave from the Engineer
Title:  A wave from the Engineer
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/2017  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 9:52:35 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Kurt Von Dietsch
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 7818(M-7 MU)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
Budd M3 still rolling
Title:  Budd M3 still rolling
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/2017  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 9:28:38 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Kurt Von Dietsch
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 9886(M-3 Metropolitan)
Views:  199   Comments: 0
Crossing the Diamond
Title:  Crossing the Diamond
Description:  Coming off the Far Rockaway Branch at Valley tower
Photo Date:  1/15/2017  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 9:55:11 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Kurt Von Dietsch
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 7605(M-7 MU)
Views:  168   Comments: 0
Passing Valley Tower
Title:  Passing Valley Tower
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/2017  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 9:58:39 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Kurt Von Dietsch
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  LI 7565(M-7 MU)
Views:  164   Comments: 0
Express
Title:  Express
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/2017  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 9:57:00 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Kurt Von Dietsch
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  LI 7150(M-7 MU)
Views:  207   Comments: 1
Entering the station
Title:  Entering the station
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/2017  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 10:00:01 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Kurt Von Dietsch
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 7021(M-7 MU)
Views:  229   Comments: 0
MP15AC standing by
Title:  MP15AC standing by
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/15/2017  Upload Date: 1/15/2017 10:07:20 PM
Location:  Valley Stream, NY
Author:  Kurt Von Dietsch
Categories:  RollingStock,Winter
Locomotives:  LI 171(MP15AC)
Views:  484   Comments: 1


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