LIRR
Idler - Float Reacher Cars
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Electric Engine Idler Cars |
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AA-1 #323 at Morris Park with air compressor idler car
5/10/1936 (Rugen-Boland) |
DD1's at Rockville Centre westbound freight ex-gondola #2954 idler car
4/1949 Archive: F. Rod Dirkes |
LIRR DD1's with idler car to bridge the third rail over crossings, providing
connectivity for the locomotive. Source: eBay |
AA-1 depicted above was LIRR's #323 "Phoebe"; the only
one built by PRR's Juniata Shops. It was always accompanied by her
compressor (ex-test gear) car which served as a reacher in spanning long
gaps for third rail connectivity. #323 was scrapped in 1937. Info: Dave
Keller
LIRR Idler cars
as of
October 1, 1965
434903, 497983, 497993, 497999
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3rd Rail pickup shoe- MP54A zoom c.1930
Archive: Dave Keller |
Compressor idler flatcar #499999 - LI City passenger yard
10/12/1947 Archive: Dave Keller
Compressor idler flatcar #499999 - LI City passenger yard
10/1947 Source: eBay |
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Idler Cars |
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LIRR# 416 with Idler 4 stanchion car - LI City view W 1976 |
LIRR #106 with Idler 4 stanchion car - Honeywell St., Yard A, LI City
5/16/1977 Photo/Archive: Henry Wagner |
LIRR #100 with Idler 4 stanchion car - Honeywell St.,
Yard A, LI City 5/21/1977 Photo/Archive: Henry Wagner |
W29 Idler car Yard A - 5/1976
Photo/Archive: Tim Darnell |
Yard A -Tri-color signal on hump - SW1001 #101with
Idler Car
3/10/77 Photo/Archive: Jeff Erlitz |
SW1001 #100 with Idler 4 stanchion car Yard A, LI City
4/11/1977 Archive: Dave Keller |
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The float flats, as we called them,
had a little shanty on them that had a pot belly stove and benches for the
crew to get out of the cold. This one, without the shanty, would have been
used on the east end ladder job as a car to improve vision for the engine
crew while rolling the hump. (above center)
That job continued for some time after
the floats stopped operating. Freight came in from Fremont that needed
classifying. That particular flat car was (left) a "hump visibility" car,
but was listed on the MOW roster as a float reach. The car in
question, however, WAS referred to as a float flat. J. J. Earl
LIRR #447 with W39 Idler car - Yard A,
LI City 1968 |
Float Reacher Cars |
LIRR float reacher #497998 c.1927
Archive: William Mangahas |
LIRR B3 #337-#325 coupled in yard switching freight
with float reacher car Bay Ridge 4/08/1946 |
S2 #443 switching float reacher #497882 Sunnyside Yard
REA- facility in background - LI City view SE - 9/27 1951
Archive: Bob's Photos |
W16 float reacher car - LI City view NE
4/05/1958 (Faxon-Keller) |
S2 #460 with float reacher - Yard A, LI City c.1958 |
LIRR S2 #446 switching float reacher Bay Ridge Yard
View E c.1962 |
W39 float reach car Yard A, LI City - View N 5/25/1963
(Votava-Keller) |
W23 Float Reacher Car at Car floats - LI City view NW
6/10/1967 (Votava-Keller) |
S2 #446 switching W27 float reacher "Batman"
Yard A, LI City - View E c.1970 |
LIRR Idler cars
as of
October 1, 1965
W-23, W-27, W-29,
W-39, W-70
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W27 float reacher with W5 gondola - Yard A, LI City
1/1973 Photo/Archive: Art Huneke |
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