whats your favorite pic of the lirr
here is mine 193 when she looked good.
here is mine 193 when she looked good.
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Whats your favorite LIRR picture
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Probably this mid 1960s image of some lucky people passing through Brightwaters, enroute from New York City to a weekend in the Hamptons, seated in director's chairs on the observation platform of LIRR 2038 SETAUKET on the rear of the heavyweight (parlor cars only) Cannonball.
Photo/scan by Steve Hoskins.
Parlor car service by Walter F. McNamara, LIRR.
http://www.mindspring.com/~jhdeasy/lirr ... uket_5.jpg
Photo/scan by Steve Hoskins.
Parlor car service by Walter F. McNamara, LIRR.
http://www.mindspring.com/~jhdeasy/lirr ... uket_5.jpg
wouldent it be nice to have that today...
Think of a porch on the cab car of the DE's.... just and intresting vision.
you can add a "barcar/clubcar" to it also
Think of a porch on the cab car of the DE's.... just and intresting vision.
you can add a "barcar/clubcar" to it also
Mineola would have had 3rd rail visible in the scene.
That looks a lot like Brightwaters to me, too.
Dave Keller
This is one of my favorite diesel action shots! Also the "Cannonball" only the head end passing Babylon yard-1957.
That looks a lot like Brightwaters to me, too.
Dave Keller
This is one of my favorite diesel action shots! Also the "Cannonball" only the head end passing Babylon yard-1957.
Dave.
They didn't put the 3rd rails from Mineola to Hicksville until, what 1969? The clue for me is the telegraph poles, Mineola has them.
Tim
They didn't put the 3rd rails from Mineola to Hicksville until, what 1969? The clue for me is the telegraph poles, Mineola has them.
Tim
Man. Today, the lawyers would have a field day with open observations. What was the diesel MAS back then? 65?
I still remember in the late 90's seeing long trains with the back end and people out there smoking their brains out. And the less than perfect automagic doors, which didn't always close (or open!
Oh yeah, I remember standing and watching the tracks as we came into Glen Head, the train bouncing and screeching coming into Huntington from the east. The dirt, the grime, the sluggishness (hey wait...)...
And people RODE those things!
I still remember in the late 90's seeing long trains with the back end and people out there smoking their brains out. And the less than perfect automagic doors, which didn't always close (or open!
Oh yeah, I remember standing and watching the tracks as we came into Glen Head, the train bouncing and screeching coming into Huntington from the east. The dirt, the grime, the sluggishness (hey wait...)...
And people RODE those things!