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SAL #1250 LAKE BORGNE
Title:  SAL #1250 LAKE BORGNE
Description:  Pullman Plan #3585A 10S-1DR-2C sleeper #1250 LAKE BORGNE. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Kodachrome 35mm slide. Photographer is unknown.
Photo Date:  7/20/1963  Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:02:28 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Unknown/Michael Scala Collection
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  65   Comments: 0
Pullman POPLAR FARM
Title:  Pullman POPLAR FARM
Description:  Plan #4060 6S-6DB sleeper POPLAR FARM in IC colors, ex-MC #11047, nee-Plan #2411C 12S-1C-1DR sleeper VINEYARD. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Kodachrome 35mm slide. Photographer is unknown.
Photo Date:  7/20/1963  Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:06:07 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Unknown/Michael Scala Collection
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  61   Comments: 0
MP CLOVER SPRAY
Title:  MP CLOVER SPRAY
Description:  Pullman Plan #4036I 8S-5DB sleeper CLOVER SPRAY, ex-Plan #2410E 12S-1DR sleeper VOLUSIA. Scanned with an Epson V550 from an original Kodachrome 35mm slide. Photographer is unknown.
Photo Date:  7/20/1963  Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:10:35 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Unknown/Michael Scala Collection
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  66   Comments: 0
LI 455 on the former Central branch by Clinton Ave.
Title:  LI 455 on the former Central branch by Clinton Ave.
Description:  Actual date not known. 126 Instamatic photo.
Photo Date:  1/1/1974  Upload Date: 1/28/2022 10:32:50 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 455(S2)
Views:  277   Comments: 2
LI 468 on RF68
Title:  LI 468 on RF68
Description:  Near Clinton Rd., getting ready to flag crossing. Taken with a 616 Brownie camera. Exact date not known.
Photo Date:  5/1/1974  Upload Date: 6/20/2016 11:35:03 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 468(RS1)
Views:  609   Comments: 1
Looking east
Title:  Looking east
Description:  Central branch on the left, Hempstead branch to the right.
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 9:45:52 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
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Views:  255   Comments: 2
Garden tower looking west
Title:  Garden tower looking west
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 9:46:05 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
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Views:  206   Comments: 3
Looking west at Garden City by tower & towards the station
Title:  Looking west at Garden City by tower & towards the station
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/1974  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 9:46:13 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
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Views:  190   Comments: 2
LI 1559 heads west with RF-68
Title:  LI 1559 heads west with RF-68
Description:  Actual day not recorded.
Photo Date:  9/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/29/2020 10:26:11 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 1559(RS3)
Views:  307   Comments: 2
Straight on
Title:  Straight on
Description:  The nose of FA 602 seen at Clinton Rd on the Mitchell Field Secondary.
Photo Date:  10/5/1985  Upload Date: 10/12/2014 3:47:18 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  506   Comments: 0
West end
Title:  West end
Description:  The west end of the Bay Ridge excursion train as it sits and Clinton Rd. It will shortly head back to Jamaica.
Photo Date:  10/5/1985  Upload Date: 10/12/2014 3:49:07 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 602(Power Car)
Views:  575   Comments: 0
MUs to Hempstead
Title:  MUs to Hempstead
Description:  I was waiting for the Ringling Bros train to get underway off the Mitchell Field Secondary. Before they let the circus train out, all other traffc will clear. One of those moves was this eastbound headed around the southwest leg of what was once a wye as it heads for the Hempstead station.
Photo Date:  12/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/14/2014 3:09:25 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 9767(M-1 Metropolitan)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
Ringling Brothers train
Title:  Ringling Brothers train
Description:  The Ringling Brothers circus train passes Nassau Blvd station on the Hempstead Branch after leaving Nassau Coliseum on the Mitchell Field secondary en route to Amtrak at Long Island City
Photo Date:  3/22/1988  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 3:24:08 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC)
Views:  2378   Comments: 0
Getting out on the main
Title:  Getting out on the main
Description:  Not exactly main line running, but close. The Ringling Brothers train has permission onto the Hempstead Branch at Garden, and is clearing the Mitchell Field Secondary as it gets underway to Long Island City to spot the train for the circus visit to Madison Square Garden.
Photo Date:  3/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:01:58 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC)
Views:  802   Comments: 0
Bright wagons
Title:  Bright wagons
Description:  The circus train is partly intermodal, as all of its roadway equipment is loaded on trailer flats and run to the next venue. Here are some of them in this going away shot at Garden.
Photo Date:  3/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:04:02 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC)
Views:  836   Comments: 0
Nassau Blvd
Title:  Nassau Blvd
Description:  The Ringling Brothers train approaches Nassau Blvd in Garden City, its train stretched out back into downtown. Looks almost like a real intermodal train.
Photo Date:  3/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/3/2015 5:26:43 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 161(MP15AC) LI 166(MP15AC) LI 160(MP15AC)
Views:  799   Comments: 0
Back to Brooklyn
Title:  Back to Brooklyn
Description:  A westbound Hempstead train comes around the connection at Garden, turning west for Garden City and Floral Park, where it will meet the Main Line. It will terminate at Flatbush Av in about an hour. That's RF 7 waiting down the Mitchell Field Secondary.
Photo Date:  6/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/28/2015 5:09:52 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 9063(M-1 Metropolitan)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
Gotta clear the passengers
Title:  Gotta clear the passengers
Description:  A westbound Hempstead train comes around the curve and heads for Garden City while RF 7 waits down the Mitchell Field line.
Photo Date:  6/14/1988  Upload Date: 7/28/2015 5:13:21 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 9127(M-1 Metropolitan)
Views:  328   Comments: 0
No Garden
Title:  No Garden
Description:  RF 7 pulls past Garden tower as it comes off the Mitchell Field Secondary, one of the more industrial areas of the Island.
Photo Date:  6/16/1988  Upload Date: 7/28/2015 2:39:45 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 166(MP15AC) LI 152(MP15AC)
Views:  701   Comments: 0
LI 609
Title:  LI 609
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/9/1989  Upload Date: 1/24/2017 9:12:54 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  LI 609(Power Car)
Views:  390   Comments: 0
Crossing Clinton
Title:  Crossing Clinton
Description:  The Kabin Kar Trek has gone as far out on the Mitchell Field line as it can, and changed ends. It now approaches the old Clinton Rd station in Garden City in a display only an Alco can provide.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 4:57:09 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 225(C420) LI 609(Power Car)
Views:  467   Comments: 0
Clinton Rd station
Title:  Clinton Rd station
Description:  The one remaining station on the Mitchell Field Secondary is at Clinton Rd in Garden City. The Kabin Kar Trek ran out as far as they could go, then stopped here for photos. This is the train behind a pair of MTA painted C 420s smoking past the old station.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/28/2015 3:57:36 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 225(C420) LI 609(Power Car)
Views:  475   Comments: 2
Street side
Title:  Street side
Description:  The trip has passed Clinton Rd station, and is now backing up for another go. This time we look from the street side of the station.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/28/2015 4:05:39 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 225(C420) LI 609(Power Car)
Views:  381   Comments: 0
Bright nose
Title:  Bright nose
Description:  The trip packet for the Kabin Kar Trek promised a surprise, and this was it. They had repainted two of the C 420s in the original MTA blue/yellow scheme, though the blue was a bit darker than as delivered. Still, they looked good. This is the nose of 229 as it sits at Clinton Rd while riders reboard after a runby.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/28/2015 4:15:01 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
LI 101
Title:  LI 101
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/24/2001  Upload Date: 10/1/2018 3:28:54 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories: 
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Views:  83   Comments: 0
LI 110
Title:  LI 110
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/24/2001  Upload Date: 10/1/2018 3:29:22 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
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Views:  87   Comments: 0
Long Island Railroad M3
Title:  Long Island Railroad M3
Description:  LIRR M3 westbound at Nassau Blvd. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/2004  Upload Date: 2/21/2013 9:03:57 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Matt Beisser
Categories:  Night,Station,Transit,Passenger
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Views:  123   Comments: 0
Long Island Railroad M3
Title:  Long Island Railroad M3
Description:  LIRR M3 eastbound at Nassau Blvd. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/2004  Upload Date: 2/21/2013 9:04:16 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Matt Beisser
Categories:  Night,Station,Transit,Passenger
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Views:  121   Comments: 0
Long Island Railroad M3
Title:  Long Island Railroad M3
Description:  LIRR M3 eastbound at Nassau Blvd. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/2004  Upload Date: 2/21/2013 9:04:47 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Matt Beisser
Categories:  Night,Station,Transit,Passenger
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Views:  126   Comments: 0
Untitled
Title:  Untitled
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/8/2005  Upload Date: 8/15/2005 3:45:31 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Paul Strubeck
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Views:  267   Comments: 0
Long Island Railroad M3
Title:  Long Island Railroad M3
Description:  LIRR M3 eastbound at Nassau Blvd.
Photo Date:  12/23/2005  Upload Date: 2/21/2013 9:10:47 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Matt Beisser
Categories:  Station,Signal,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 9836(M-3 Metropolitan)
Views:  540   Comments: 0
TC-466
Title:  TC-466
Description:  Sperling Railway Services QUADRILL tie drill on the Long Island Railroad Garden City Secondary
Photo Date:  2/26/2007  Upload Date: 2/17/2013 10:23:45 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Matt Beisser
Categories:  Winter,Track
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Views:  116   Comments: 0
Long Island Railroad Jackson Tamper TC-032
Title:  Long Island Railroad Jackson Tamper TC-032
Description:  LIRR Jackson 6700 Tamper on the Long Island Railroad Garden City Secondary
Photo Date:  2/26/2007  Upload Date: 2/17/2013 10:23:05 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Matt Beisser
Categories:  Winter,Track
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Views:  154   Comments: 0
TC-881
Title:  TC-881
Description:  Track equipment and railroad ties lined up on the Long Island Railroad Garden City Secondary
Photo Date:  2/26/2007  Upload Date: 2/17/2013 10:24:37 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Matt Beisser
Categories:  Winter,Track
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Views:  126   Comments: 0
Mirror check
Title:  Mirror check
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/24/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 8:32:21 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
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Views:  148   Comments: 0
LIRR Welded rail train
Title:  LIRR Welded rail train
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/24/2008  Upload Date: 5/24/2008 8:32:22 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John McCluskey
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Views:  109   Comments: 0
169 rests with east end of cars along the Mitchell Field Secondary.
Title:  169 rests with east end of cars along the Mitchell Field Secondary.
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/22/2012  Upload Date: 3/22/2012 5:42:39 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Neil Feldman
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Views:  405   Comments: 0
RRBX 169
Title:  RRBX 169
Description:  Second view of this Train split of this mighty 61 car consist.
Photo Date:  3/22/2012  Upload Date: 3/22/2012 5:42:40 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Neil Feldman
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Views:  247   Comments: 0
RRBX 200
Title:  RRBX 200
Description:  This the eastern most end of the Mitchell Field Secondary here as 200 is on the very end of it.
Photo Date:  3/22/2012  Upload Date: 3/22/2012 5:42:40 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Neil Feldman
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Views:  182   Comments: 0
RBBX 84802
Title:  RBBX 84802
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/22/2012  Upload Date: 3/22/2012 5:42:41 PM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  Neil Feldman
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Views:  299   Comments: 0
This is the old Clinton St Station on the old Garden & Mitchell Secondary
Title:  This is the old Clinton St Station on the old Garden & Mitchell Secondary
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 10:18:00 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John Levai
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Views:  91   Comments: 0
The Garden & Mitchell Secondary
Title:  The Garden & Mitchell Secondary
Description:  We are looking down the tracks toward Downtown Garden City
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 10:18:40 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John Levai
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Views:  60   Comments: 0
Railfans near the old Clinton Road Railroad Station
Title:  Railfans near the old Clinton Road Railroad Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 10:19:17 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John Levai
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Views:  59   Comments: 0
The RBBB Circus Train is approaching.
Title:  The RBBB Circus Train is approaching.
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Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 10:20:01 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John Levai
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Views:  90   Comments: 0
RBBB Circus Train
Title:  RBBB Circus Train
Description:  On March 11th, 2013, the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus Train approaches the old Clinton Road Station in Garden City, New York. Four Long Island Railroad MP15s are on the point of the consist, and they are leading elephant style. Today, the old Clinton Road Station is a station of the Garden City Fire Department.
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 10:21:17 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John Levai
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Views:  119   Comments: 0
LIRR MP15
Title:  LIRR MP15
Description:  Unit # 158 is on the point of the train.
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 10:22:36 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John Levai
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Views:  75   Comments: 0
RBBB Circus Train
Title:  RBBB Circus Train
Description:  The train is about to cross Clinton Road.
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 10:23:17 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John Levai
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Views:  85   Comments: 0
RBBB Circus Train
Title:  RBBB Circus Train
Description:  Now, the coach section of the train is in sight.
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 10:24:06 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John Levai
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Views:  61   Comments: 0
RBBB Circus Train
Title:  RBBB Circus Train
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 10:24:32 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John Levai
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Views:  46   Comments: 0
RBBB Circus Train
Title:  RBBB Circus Train
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/11/2013  Upload Date: 3/12/2013 10:24:54 AM
Location:  Garden City, NY
Author:  John Levai
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Views:  41   Comments: 0


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