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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1978 - 1/1/1978
Album Info:Railfan excursions I either rode or chased.
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Meeting the scoot
Title:  Meeting the scoot
Description:  The Project 39 fantrip meets the Greenport scoot with LIRR 267 pushing toward Jamaica, at Riverhead.
Photo Date:  6/7/1986  Upload Date: 11/23/2014 3:14:11 AM
Location:  Glen Cove, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 222(C420) LI 229(C420) LI 267(GP38-2)
Views:  718   Comments: 0
On to Greenport
Title:  On to Greenport
Description:  The tail end of the Project 39 trip had an F unit on it, despite LIRR still having quite a few FAs in service. This is the train rolling away on the Main Line at B tower. The track at right is the Central Branch to Babylon, once part of A T Svewart's Central RR of Long Islane.
Photo Date:  6/7/1986  Upload Date: 11/23/2014 3:18:43 AM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 619(Power Car)
Views:  479   Comments: 0
Great day for a fantrip
Title:  Great day for a fantrip
Description:  The Project 39 group ran a fantrip to benefit their restoration og LIRR 4-6-0 39, selecting a June Saturday for the trip. It poured, all day. No one will be getting off to see the 39 at Riverhead. The train has arrived, and will walt to meet the westbound scoot from Greenport, then roll on to the end of the line itself.
Photo Date:  6/7/1986  Upload Date: 11/23/2014 3:04:46 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 222(C420) LI 229(C420)
Views:  478   Comments: 0
BM&R trip
Title:  BM&R trip
Description:  Blue Mountain & Reading 425 ran a couple of trips from Hoboken to Port Jervis the weekend of Aug 2 and 3 1986. This is the Aug 2 trip passing Tuxedo going away. To facilitate turning the engine, a pair of M&E Alcos trailed the tool car, which cut off at Campbell Hall to turn the steamer and back it into Port Jervis.
Photo Date:  8/2/1986  Upload Date: 12/5/2014 3:43:09 AM
Location:  Tuxedo, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ME 18(C424) ME 17(C430) RBMN 425(4-6-2)
Views:  1855   Comments: 0
High dollar riders
Title:  High dollar riders
Description:  Lehigh Valley 353 was the extra fare car on the BM&R 425 trip to Port Jervis, Here it is on the rear about to go into Otisville tunnel
Photo Date:  8/2/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 4:27:37 AM
Location:  Otisville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Tunnel,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  489   Comments: 0
Helping out
Title:  Helping out
Description:  A trip ran with Blue Mountain & Reading 425 in August 1986. There was no place to turn 425 at Port Jervis, so the steam engine was pulled off at Campbell Hall and run around the wye there. The M&E power here took the train into Port Jervis, where the 425 was reacoupled after backing to Port Jervis. Here a couple watches the M&E power roll the train toward Otisville tunnel.
Photo Date:  8/2/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 4:23:35 AM
Location:  Otisville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ME 17(C430) ME 18(C424)
Views:  1070   Comments: 0
Headed for the tunnel
Title:  Headed for the tunnel
Description:  BM&R 425 has cut off back at Campbell Hall, and the M&E units now have the train rolling past Otisville station and on to Port Jervis. The 425 will follow along shortly.
Photo Date:  8/2/1986  Upload Date: 12/5/2014 3:53:42 AM
Location:  Otisville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ME 17(C430) ME 18(C424)
Views:  977   Comments: 0
Classics arrive
Title:  Classics arrive
Description:  This fantrip on the NS, I believe it went to Waynesboro on the NW Shenandoah Line, pulls into the station on its return to Alexandria.
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/24/2015 4:56:26 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3497(FP7A) SOU 3496(FP7A) SOU 3499(FP7A)
Views:  474   Comments: 1
Posing
Title:  Posing
Description:  The Waynesboro trip is pulled up to let off the riders from its 22 cars, the Southern FP 7s posing at the far end of the platform, with the station at far right. They have recently been renumbered from their 600 series numbers. Interestingly, NS added the computer check letter next to the road numer that Southern was known for.
Photo Date:  7/26/1987  Upload Date: 5/24/2015 4:58:34 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 3497(FP7A) SOU 3496(FP7A) SOU 3499(FP7A)
Views:  444   Comments: 0
Hard to catch
Title:  Hard to catch
Description:  But it wasnt easy!! In October 1987, Western NY NRHS ran a couple of circle trips from Buffalo through Rochester on the CR Chicago Line, down to Corning on the Corning Secondary, then back to Buffalo on the Southern Tier. I caught the Oct 17 trip out of Corning, and chased down the Canisteo River. The Es did what they do best-about 70 MPH-and I was doing 75 along River Rd from Addison, along with three other lunatics. The only thing that saved us is that the police presence down there was almost nil at the time-in 20 years of running that road, I think I saw a sheriffs car one time. We were cooking. I finally got ahead of the train at Carson, yielding this shot.
Photo Date:  10/17/1987  Upload Date: 6/9/2015 3:17:45 AM
Location:  Canisteo, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  PRR 5898(E8A) PRR 5806(E8A)
Views:  726   Comments: 3
Foaming for Alcos
Title:  Foaming for Alcos
Description:  The return of the NKP 765 trip to Port Jervis was with M&E Alcos. Here we see the chasers assembled beneath Moodna Viaduct as the train passes overhead.
Photo Date:  7/30/1988  Upload Date: 8/14/2015 4:27:50 AM
Location:  Salisbury Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ME 17(C430) ME 18(C424) ME 16(C430)
Views:  1010   Comments: 0
Riding high
Title:  Riding high
Description:  The return trip to Hoboken crosses above Moodna Creek behind a trio of M&E Alcos.
Photo Date:  7/30/1988  Upload Date: 8/14/2015 4:29:23 AM
Location:  Salisbury Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ME 17(C430) ME 18(C424) ME 16(C430)
Views:  1057   Comments: 2
Smoking it out
Title:  Smoking it out
Description:  The return trip of a Port Jervis excursion during the 1988 NRHS convention smokes the tunnel as its three Alcos roll out of the Otisville tunnel.
Photo Date:  7/30/1988  Upload Date: 8/14/2015 4:31:34 AM
Location:  Otisville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  ME 17(C430) ME 18(C424) ME 16(C430)
Views:  1076   Comments: 1
Headed back
Title:  Headed back
Description:  This trip during the 1988 NRHS convention ran from Hoboken to Port Jervis behind NKP 765. It will return behind this trio of M&E units, with the Berk being towed in later behind an NJT GP40P. The faithful are out in droves to see the action.
Photo Date:  7/30/1988  Upload Date: 8/14/2015 4:40:02 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ME 17(C430) ME 18(C424) ME 16(C430)
Views:  913   Comments: 0
Helping out
Title:  Helping out
Description:  This trip to Hoboken will get an assist from the NJT GP40P at left. The trip arrived at Port Jervis behind NKP 765. The M&E units will take the train back. The NJT unit is backing down to get the Berk, and will pull it back to Hoboken after turning it on the wye at Campbell Hall.
Photo Date:  7/30/1988  Upload Date: 8/14/2015 4:48:05 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ME 17(C430) ME 18(C424) ME 16(C430) NJT 4109(GP40P)
Views:  1089   Comments: 1
M&E Alcos
Title:  M&E Alcos
Description:  M&E Alcos lead a fantrip about to head east on the former Erie on a fantrip during the 1988 NRHS convention
Photo Date:  8/14/1988  Upload Date: 10/29/2011 2:06:53 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ME 17(C430) ME 18(C424) ME 16(C430)
Views:  1161   Comments: 0
Retro Centuries
Title:  Retro Centuries
Description:  Late in their careers, LIRR repainted a couple of C 420s into their as delivered scheme from the early MTA era. Here we see them on a fantrip at Floral Park on the Hempstead Branch.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 10/5/2011 11:35:51 PM
Location:  Floral Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 222(C420)
Views:  698   Comments: 0
At the yard
Title:  At the yard
Description:  The LIRR Kabin Kar Trek has pulled into Fresh Pond yard, after returning from Bay Ridge, and will now shove to Bushwick Terminal.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 4:09:12 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LI 103(SW1001)
Views:  385   Comments: 0
Return from Bushwick
Title:  Return from Bushwick
Description:  The Kabin Kar Trek rolls along the Evergreen Branch near Metropolitan Av
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 4:18:31 AM
Location:  Brooklyn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 103(SW1001)
Views:  389   Comments: 0
English Kills
Title:  English Kills
Description:  The Kabin Kar Trek poses on the English Creek moveable bridge near Varick St in Brooklyn.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 4:22:47 AM
Location:  Brooklyn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 103(SW1001)
Views:  801   Comments: 0
Flushing Av
Title:  Flushing Av
Description:  The train crosses the Flushing Av overpass, about to enter an industrial building.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 4:26:00 AM
Location:  Maspeth, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 103(SW1001)
Views:  132   Comments: 0
Coming in for a change
Title:  Coming in for a change
Description:  LIRR 103 ran the west end of the trip due to all the industrial trackage. The trip info promised a surprise, which turned out to be a pair of blue and yellow painted C 420s, with an FA coupled to their east end. The FA didnt add anything in the way of tractive effort, and its 244 engine had been removed, but it looked good. The engine change will take place just ahead, and the train will head to the Hempstead Branch and Mitchell Field.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/28/2015 4:19:40 AM
Location:  Richmond Hill, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 103(SW1001)
Views:  257   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:  387   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:  387   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:  280   Comments: 0
Last lap
Title:  Last lap
Description:  The Kabin Kar Trek is on its last leg as it rolls through Floral Park on its way to drop the tired but happy riders at Jamaica.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/28/2015 4:10:58 AM
Location:  Floral Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 225(C420) LI 609(Power Car)
Views:  322   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:  107   Comments: 0
Passing the west wye
Title:  Passing the west wye
Description:  The caboose trip rolls past the west leg of the wye from the Montauk Branch to the Bay Ridge Branch at Fresh Pond.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 4:31:26 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  244   Comments: 0
In you go
Title:  In you go
Description:  The Kabin Kar trip rolls into an industrial building on the Metropolitan Av Secondary.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 4:34:53 AM
Location:  Maspeth, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  181   Comments: 1
Pulling away
Title:  Pulling away
Description:  The Kabin Kar trip pulls away from the photo stop at English Kills, showing the drumhead specially made for the event, on the rear car.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/25/2015 4:39:04 AM
Location:  Brooklyn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  161   Comments: 0
Enjoying the view
Title:  Enjoying the view
Description:  Such as it is. The rear of the Kabin Kar Trek passes through the Richmond Hill yard as it prepares for an engine change up ahead. The rear end gang is getting a good look at the Montauk Branch and the receding Jamaica Av el.
Photo Date:  9/10/1989  Upload Date: 11/28/2015 4:22:42 AM
Location:  Richmond Hill, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  216   Comments: 0
RBM&N power
Title:  RBM&N power
Description:  Reading Blue Mountain & Northern power from all eras meets at Port Clinton
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 11:57:31 PM
Location:  Port Clinton, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RDG 2102(4-8-4) RDG 5308(C630) RDG 5513(GP30) RBMN 3300(U33B) RBMN 3301(U33B)
Views:  1239   Comments: 1
E units
Title:  E units
Description:  Among the equipment seen during the RCTHS day was this PRR E 8 at South Hamburg.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/11/2015 2:21:43 PM
Location:  South Hamburg, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  PRR 5898(E8A)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
RBM&N U33Bs
Title:  RBM&N U33Bs
Description:  A pair of Reading Blue Mountain & Northern U33Bs power an excursion covering the coal gathering lines north of Hamburg.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 2/5/2012 12:54:15 AM
Location:  Port Clinton, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RBMN 3300(U33B)
Views:  509   Comments: 0
Photo freight
Title:  Photo freight
Description:  A Reading Blue Mountain & Northern U boat has a photo freight of coal hoppers in tow as it comes into Tamaqua.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 2:04:29 AM
Location:  Tamaqua, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  353   Comments: 1
Big Alco
Title:  Big Alco
Description:  Reading 5308 leads GP 30 5513 on a photo freight approaching Tamaqua.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 2:07:30 AM
Location:  Tamaqua, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RDG 5308(C630) RDG 5513(GP30)
Views:  512   Comments: 0
From high up
Title:  From high up
Description:  I was a lot younger when this Reading T&HS trip ran, and was able to climb up the tailing pile to get this shot of the C630 and GP 30 rolling the trip near New Ringgold.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 2:12:26 AM
Location:  Ashland, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  RDG 5308(C630) RDG 5513(GP30)
Views:  557   Comments: 1
Two shades of green
Title:  Two shades of green
Description:  The passenge train arrives at Tamaqua, passing the photo freight.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 2:14:30 AM
Location:  Tamaqua, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RDG 5308(C630)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
Bedded down in the flowers
Title:  Bedded down in the flowers
Description:  Reading 5308 is tied up for the night, a patch of flowers to decorate its resting place.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 2:27:45 AM
Location:  Port Clinton, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  RDG 5308(C630) RDG 5513(GP30)
Views:  425   Comments: 2
Looking good
Title:  Looking good
Description:  The fantrip power runs around its train to head back to Port Clinton, giving a good look at a memorably diesel.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 2:16:29 AM
Location:  Tamaqua, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RDG 5308(C630) RDG 5513(GP30)
Views:  471   Comments: 1
Rolling from a photo session
Title:  Rolling from a photo session
Description:  The fantrip rolls out of Port Clinton after a meet with the photo freight and Reading 2102
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 2:24:41 AM
Location:  Port Clinton, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RDG 5513(GP30) RDG 5308(C630) RBMN 3301(U33B) RBMN 3300(U33B)
Views:  668   Comments: 0
Starting south
Title:  Starting south
Description:  The fantrip starts out of Tamaqua, the Alco doing what Alcos do best as they get underway.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 2:17:42 AM
Location:  Tamaqua, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  RDG 5513(GP30) RDG 5308(C630)
Views:  495   Comments: 1
Bucolic view
Title:  Bucolic view
Description:  The train has left Tamaqua and is now rolling through the rural beauty of the anthracite region as the happy riders head home.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/5/2015 2:21:27 AM
Location:  Tamaqua, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  RDG 5513(GP30) RDG 5308(C630)
Views:  361   Comments: 0
We know where this is
Title:  We know where this is
Description:  The sign says so. The Reading fantrip is at Zehners, with the unmistakeable face of a GP 30 leading past the CR block limit sign there.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/11/2015 2:00:34 AM
Location:  Zehners, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RDG 5513(GP30) RDG 5308(C630)
Views:  463   Comments: 0
Mixed meet
Title:  Mixed meet
Description:  The Reading Co THS trip meets RDG 2102 at Port Clinton with a healthy crowd on hand to witness the event.
Photo Date:  6/1/1991  Upload Date: 3/11/2015 2:04:35 AM
Location:  Port Clinton, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RDG 5513(GP30) RDG 5308(C630) RDG 2102(4-8-4)
Views:  641   Comments: 0
Race train
Title:  Race train
Description:  One of the groups in New Jersey sponsored a trip to Monmouth Racetrack with the Erie painted (they were ex NYC units, as I recall. Erie's last E was 833, which eventually became CR 4022)E 8s 834 and 835. We see it crossing the Raritan River at South Amboy.
Photo Date:  8/18/1991  Upload Date: 2/26/2015 3:55:45 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  ERIE 834(E8A) ERIE 835(E8A)
Views:  563   Comments: 1
Tugging along
Title:  Tugging along
Description:  The Erie E 8 led excursion train approaches the Raritan River bridge as some maritime traffic chugs past.
Photo Date:  8/18/1991  Upload Date: 2/26/2015 3:58:03 PM
Location:  South Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  ERIE 834(E8A) ERIE 835(E8A)
Views:  336   Comments: 0


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