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K4s #5406 and Sunday-only train #4229
westbound past "B" tower Bethpage Jct. 5/11/47
(G. E. Votava
photo)
(Note white-painted smokebox!) |
Dave Keller's
Long Island Rail Road Photos & Recollections
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G5s #43 with snow-encrusted number plate is pulling train #4223
westbound from Ronkonkoma through the snow near Mineola during the late
afternoon of December 28, 1948. Notice the absence of the small
snowplow covering which was affixed over the lattice pilot during the
winter months! At the left on the siding are a couple of Swift's
reefers.
Photo: Ed Hermanns, Archive: Dave Keller+
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G5s #33 is pulling 9-car train #4613 westbound from Port Jefferson on
Cold Spring Hill, through Cold Spring Harbor, NY on this cool February day
in 1947.
Photo: Ed Hermanns, Archive: Dave Keller+ |
Close up of locomotive #33 clearly showing her number plate and
fireman "momentarily" seated in his cab seat. He should be
up and shoveling coal very shortly.
Photo: Ed Hermanns, Archive: Dave Keller+
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Mission Statement: To provide historical Long
Island Rail Road photos, data, maps and anecdotes to interested parties and to
keep this information alive and fresh for future generations of LIRR rail
enthusiasts and historians. Dave Keller+
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Norman
Kohl photo, Dave Keller archive
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FM
C-liner eastbound on Port Jefferson branch getting orders (or attempting
to, at least) at "DIVIDE" tower, Hicksville, NY 12/5/54. I
wonder why the block operator wasn't using the steps behind him instead of
making the engineer practically fall out of the cab window! I also wonder
if the engineer caught them! Doesn't look like he's going to make contact.
Hope his conductor was more successful in grabbing his set!
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William Madden photo, Dave Keller
Archive
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Leased Precision
National GP10 locomotive #980 is coupled to the one-car Greenport Shuttle
and is laying up eastbound in front of the crew shanty in Ronkonkoma
yard on Friday, November 26, 1976. This shuttle would run between
Ronkonkoma and Greenport as eastbound train #202 and westbound train
#211 on weekdays
only. Judging by the lighting, #211 has just made its return trip
from Greenport and is laying up in the yard until ready to go back east
again on Monday morning. At times, this one-car shuttle would lay up on the wye tail north of the main yard.
Some years later, this train
would have added cars and be run as a push-pull shuttle with an ALCO FA
control cab on one end and an MP15ac powered unit on the other.
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William Lichtenstern photo,
Dave Keller Archive
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The
Saturday afternoon Patchogue-Babylon “Scoot” consisting of BUDD RDC1
#3101 and RDC2 #3121, coupled, is heading eastbound near
River Ave.
crossing as it approaches Patchogue on April 6, 1963. In tow is RPO
(Railway Post Office) car #7743. As an aside, this towing of
non-BUDD cars caused the BUDD Co. to void its warranty on these cars with
the L.I.R.R. At the left is Underwood Coal and Coke and in the
foreground is the Ringhouse Siding, which extended all the way from west
of the Underwood siding eastward to the west side of the Railroad Ave.
crossing (after a 1949 track rearrangement) and had a capacity of 35 cars.
One month later, demolition of the old Patchogue terminal and engine
repair facilities would begin.
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I would like to personally thank
Michael C. Koehler and Island Rail Preservation, LLC for his generous
donation to my archive of a brand new, Epson Perfection 4490 Photo
scanner. Please read his letter below.
Keep an eye out here for
more good stuff! Dave Keller
ISLAND RAIL PRESERVATION, LLC
16359 Z Street
Omaha
NE
68135
March
30, 2007
Dave
Keller
Orlando
,
FL
Dave:
Per our conversations, you should receive the scanner promised to
you by sometime next week. Please consider this important piece of
equipment as Island Rail Preservation’s small contribution towards your
efforts to preserve the photographic and paper history of the
Long Island Rail Road
.
It is plainly evident to most that, over time, the electronic
preservation of paper documents and the film record of the LIRR will take
a leading role in preserving the RR’s history. Digital imaging holds
great power in making these records available to many enthusiasts
everywhere for the indefinite future. Hopefully you will make good use of
the scanner to this end. We
look forward to seeing more of your collection on the web.
As you may be aware, Island Rail also maintains an active interest
in helping preserve historic pieces of LIRR equipment. During the course
of the next few years, Island Rail plans to complete several restorations
(to operable condition) of LIRR equipment and save others for future
preservation. We look forward to sharing our progress with you.
Thanks – we look forward to continuing our dialog in the months to come.
Sincerely,
Mike
Koehler
Principal
Island Rail Preservation, LLC
Many thanks to Len
Torney and Thomas Collins for their recent and most
generous contributions of photographic negatives to the Dave Keller
archive!
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LIRR H10s #107 at Mt. Olivet c.1937
Photo: John Reschke, Archive: Dave Keller
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Updated:
03/09/2010
Cannonball 1957 at Babylon
Jules P. Krzenski photo
G5s (4-6-0) numbered in
the 20’s-series pulls a string of 11 cars eastbound in the
Summer’s early evening light in 1952 through Union Hall Street
station, Jamaica. Notice the old Pennsy keystone-style station
sign still in place on the station’s covered platforms and in the
far distance can be seen the overhead concourse at
Jamaica
station, accessing the various platforms.
W. J. Broschart photo, Dave Keller archive
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LIRR C420 #217 pulls a train of
heavyweight parlor cars westbound on the Montauk branch viaduct
above
Hillside
station in June, 1966. The late afternoon sun casts long
shadows. Dave Keller Archive |
PHOTOS:
Over 5000 negatives covering the LIRR (steam, diesel
and electric), Stations, MOW and misc., BEDT, Staten Island Rapid
Transit, Hudson & Manhattan, N.Y. Westchester and Boston, New
York City Street Railways, and New York City Elevated Railways.
Please contact Dave Keller for latest updated photo listings.
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Looking northwest on
7/1/36, we see the depot, high-level concrete platforms and “IS” tower
at
Hollis
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NY
. The building at the right is the section shanty. Visible in the
center of the tracks are the crossover switches to allow trains to enter
and leave Holban Yard which is located just west of the station and to the
left out of the range of the photo. A year later the tower would be
renamed “HOLLIS.” Photo from the Archive of Dave Keller
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Leased Pennsylvania Railroad
E3sd (4-4-2) #3154 has left the old covered platforms at the
Oyster Bay station and is heading westbound under a full
head of steam on this cold March morning in 1936. The
3-car train is #4523 and ran to Jamaica on Sundays only.
George Votava photo, Dave Keller archive.
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A westbound MU train is seen in
the background, stopped at the high-level platforms that
serviced the Jamaica Racetrack station. The Locust Manor
at-grade wooden depot, with keystone name board on the wall,
is seen in the foreground. The crossover tracks and switches
are visible in the near foreground. This view is looking
east, c.1936.
The 1927 wooden shelter shed was built
nearly touching the 1898 wooden depot building.
Photographer: unidentified, Archive: Dave
Keller+
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Conductor Bob Emery discussing business about Train
#22, the Thursday “Cannonball” with Brakeman Al Berna at
Westhampton station. Willie Wilson of Special Services looks
on at left.
7/25/68
Photo: Richard Makse (courtesy of Robert Andersen)
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"1918 Troop Train
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Jules P. Krzenski
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RS-1 #464 at Babylon - 1957
J. P Krzenski photo |
In 1969 I became friends
with another railroad photographer, Jules P. Krzenski. He was
very friendly to me and I visited him many times, talking
railroading and photographing trains together (he lived in
East Islip along the LIRR’s R.O.W. west of
Great
River
. All sorts of good trains ran past his house during the
summer!) He gave me pointers on how to photograph trains, good
places to photograph them and the proper way to date and archive my
negatives for preservation. |
He had a large family and was kindly tolerant of yet
another teenager hanging around on Saturdays, occupying his “personal
time.” He moved to the southwestern U.S. many years ago and I lost touch
with him.
Only recently another friend assisted me, quite by accident, in locating
him. Contact was made, reminiscences and family photos and updates
exchanged and, I’m happy to say, he offered me his wonderful collection.
It has now been incorporated into my “Photolists.”
He took some great action shots of
Fairbanks-Morse units, Budd RDCs and ALCO
units in the 1950s, at such places at Babylon (when at grade),
Deer Park, Port Jefferson and “B” tower. After a 10+ year hiatus, he again
began photographing, this time ALCO units (both action and roster) in
1968.
Thanks, Jules, for patiently helping out a young railfan and playing your
part in keeping the archive alive!!
Dave Keller 2003
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