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 Ronkonkoma
Electrification Project
Completed Archive 12/1987 |
Harold Protects at KO 11/04/2011
Photo: Dietrich Ryan
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Ronkonkoma Track Capacities P-54 Cars
Ronkonkoma Milepost 49-50
Emery map 10-57
Ronkonkoma Milepost 48-49 Emery map 10-57
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G5s LIRR #21 Tender taking on
water Ronkonkoma 8/1947
Dave Keller
archive
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Leased PRR E-6 #230 1/30/1938
Photo: Robert G. Lewis retired
publisher of RAILWAY AGE magazine. Archive: Jim Gillin
G5s LIRR #39 Tender taking on water Ronkonkoma 06/05/1955
Photographer unidentified, Dave Keller
archive
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FA1-611-C420-208-PushPull-Ronkonkoma-10-72
Photo: Dave Keller
View Wye South
Photo: Steve Lynch
View Wye North
Photo: Steve Lynch
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L203 Photo: Steve Hoskins c. 1960's
View Wye NE BAR #60, #72 1998
Photo: Paul Kennedy
View Wye NE Precision #1702
1998 Photo: Paul Kennedy
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L1555 Photo:
Steve Hoskins c. 1960's
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LIRR turbine car laid up on the north leg of the wye prior to the
sheet metal shed being built for the 2nd turbine that arrived a couple of
years later. View NE c.12/1966
Photo/Archive: Tom Harmon
Info: Dave Keller
P-GT1_Turbine
Photo: Steve Hoskins c. 1966
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LIRR turbine car truck detail c.12/1966
Photo/Archive: Tom Harmon
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A severe telephoto view shot from
the
Ronkonkoma Ave.
overpass looking towards the yard and Gould’s Feed silo. KO Block
signals at the far right. Note the passenger
train laying up . . . at least 6 different styles of car in one train.
View NE summer 1965
Photo/Archive: Tom Harmon
Info: Dave Keller
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BAR #74 PNC #1706
Photo: Brian Woodruff
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BAR #65 #69 PNC #1706
Photo: Brian Woodruff
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LIRR RS-3 #1552 #1557
Photo: Brian Woodruff
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1940 T. Sommer photo
1970 Dave Keller photo
1987 Dave Keller photo
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Tower KO 1940
Collection: Dave Keller
KO Storage Seed 1972
Photo: Dave Keller
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Photos of the newly
opened electric yard at
Ronkonkoma
– filled with diesel-hauled equipment! A sight you’ll never see
again.
Views are looking west
in December, 1987. I don’t have an actual date indicated, however the 3rd
rail was activated on, I believe, Dec. 17th and I probably shot these the
same day as I shot the electrified activation warning sign. (Photos
shot through the chain-link fence.)
Photos/Archive/Info: Dave Keller
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LIRR W80
Gould's Feed Silo Ronkonkoma 02/1972
(closed prior to 1966) view NE
Photo/Archive: Dave Keller (see R. Emery 10-57 map above )
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George Ayling, the agent at CI,
worked a rotation schedule in the late 1940s and part of that rotation was a
day or two a week at
Ronkonkoma
. He said he was warned by the regular agent to beware of Gould,
because Gould was a deadbeat who never paid his bills and was constantly
threatened by the LIRR. He saw a relief agent on duty and would
bluster into the depot, figuring the new guy didn’t know of him and DEMAND
that his loads of feed be released to him. Ayling told him he’d be
more than happy to release his loads to him ONCE HE PAID HIS MONEY OWED TO
THE RAILROAD . . . whereupon he’d bluster some more and storm out.
He’d come back later with money to pay the bill, blustering some more, and
his feed would be released to him. Story told to Dave
Keller, no claim as to accuracy of this story.
His feed business was way up
Hawkins Road north
of the village
of
Ronkonkoma
, almost on the borderline of Ronkonkoma
and Lake Grove. Info: Dave Keller
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LIRR #W83, FA
#602, GP #254 6-29-1985
Archive: McEnery
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KO view west two Home Signals Wash
Rack Ronkonkoma Station
Cab View 04/2008
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Freight eastbound passing wye 7/1983
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