Welcome to the Long Island Railroad Page. The Long Island Railroad uses an assortment of equipment at the present time. Equipment such as EMD GP38-2s, EMD MP15ACs some which have been modified to act as a hotel power source for ex-MU's cars which are now in diesel service. The Long Island Railroad also has an assortment of converted Alco Cab Units(FA1/FA2s) and converted EMD Cab Units(F7As, and one F9A)which have been stripped of their prime movers and fitted with 600hp engines to provide power for trains in push-pull service, they are also used as a control cab usually on the west end of diesel-hauled trains. Unfortunately, the GP38-2s and all of the HEP/Cab Control converts days are numbered. By the end of 1999 all of the Long Island Railroad's GP38-2s and HEP/Cab Control units will be retired. The GP38-2 will be sold back to EMD for refurbishing and will then be leased to regional and shortline freight railroads across the United States. Al HEP/Cab Control units will be scrapped. New EMD engines(DE30ACs and DM30ACs) will replace the aging diesel fleet. The only engines that will remain will be the MP15ACs and SW1001s which will be mainly in freight service, which is now run by New York and Atlantic Railroad. The railroad also has 756 M-1 MUs and 174 M-3 MUs which haul the majority of passengers on the 750 trains daily.
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DE30ACs' and Double Decker Cars
LONG ISLAND RAILROAD HEP/CAB CONTROL CONVERTS
GP38-2 #265 approaching West End of Oyster Bay Station. Click here
GP38-2 #260 pulling into Oyster Bay Station. Click Here
GP38-2 #257 at East End of Patchogue. Click Here
Control Stand of a LIRR GP38-2. Click Here
GP38-2 rounding a curve on the Port Jefferson Branch. Click Here
Approaching a station on the Port Jefferson Branch. Click Here
GP38-2 barrels through Forest Park, Queens on it's way to Jamaica and points east. Click Here
GP38-2 #268 is rounding a curve and on it's way to Oyster Bay Station. Click Here
GP38-2 #268 heads over the first crossing west of Oyster Bay Station. Click Here
LONG ISLAND RAILROAD MP15ACs
MP15AC #157 at the East End of Oyster Bay Station. Click Here
3 MP15ACs in the yard at Oyster Bay, #151 and 153 back to back, and P-Unit # 169. Click Here
Cab shot on an MP15AC's hood on the Oyster Bay Branch. Click Here
MP15AC P-Unit #167 at Greenport, Long Island. Click Here
Inside MP15AC #167 approaching a crossing on the Ronkonkoma Branch of the Long Island Railroad. Click Here
MP15AC #160 at the East End of Greenport Station. Click Here
Throttle controls of a MP15AC. Click Here
Ex-LIRR MP15AC #159 leading New York & Atlantic Railroad freight through Jamaica Station. Click Here
MP15AC idling in Oyster Bay Yard. Click Here
MP15-ACs'in their P-Unit mode(see definitions)resting in the Westernmost end of Montauk Station. Click Here
Rounding a curve on the Montauk Branch looking out the fireman's seat of MP15-AC #165. Click Here
MP15-AC's #160 and P161 rest in Oyster Bay yard. Click Here
Looking back through MP15AC #162 we see GP38-2 #268 pushing the train around a bend on the Oyster Bay Branch. Click Here
Just passed Queens Tower we see an on comming Oyster Bay bound train lead by DE30AC #409 with double deckers behind it. Click Here
#409 a brand new DE30AC slowly starts to pull out of Oyster Bay Station, which is now a high level platform, and moves into the yard to lay-up for 10 minutes before returning to Jamaica Station. Click Here
A closer look at #409 as it pulls out of Oyster Bay Station and heads into the yard. Click Here
Trailing behind DE30AC #409 and three other double decker cars is cab car #5005. Click Here
Ex-F9A #619 at the West End of Oyster Bay Station. Click Here
Ex-Alco FA1 #615 at Port Jefferson Station. Click Here
LIRR former Alco Cab unit at Oyster Bay Station 1990. Click Here
Enlarged version of 619 above. Click Here
Ex-F7A #622 at the West End of Oyster Bay Station. Click Here
Brake Stand and Pressure Gauges of a converted ALCO FA-1 Cab Unit. Click Here
Converted F7A now used as a power car is seen here comming into River Head Station, LI in pretty deplorable shape. Click Here
Inside converted F9A #619 on the Oyster Bay Branch. Click Here
LONG ISLAND RAILROAD MUs
M-3s pulling into the West End of Babylon Station. Click Here
M-1s proceeding east into Babylon Station. Click Here
M-1 sitting in the east end of Long Beach Station. Click Here
A consist of M-1s and M-3s are pulling into the east end of Long Beach Station. Click Here
Here is the way to put the spotlight on an MU. Click Here
M1/M3 consist flys through Kew Gardens, Queens, NY. Click here
LONG ISLAND/PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, NJ CENTRAL HISTORICAL STEAM ERA SECTION. (photos provided by my one and only grandfather Harold Kodack.)
Leased Black River and Western Railroad 2-8-0 #60 pulls an excursion train near Bayport in 1967. Click Here
Leased to the LIRR is #60 a 2-8-0 originally from Black River and Western Railroad seen here in 1967 pulling a group excursion. Click Here
One of Pennsylvania Railroad's biggest passenger engines, the K-4 Pacifics'. Here #5438 sits in rest at Montauk Station in 1937. Click Here
Another view of LI/PRR K-4 #5438. Click Here
Engineer C.Kane stands infront of K-4 #719 at Montauk in 1937. Click Here
Unidentified N.J. Central engine at Croton-Harmon, NY in 1950. Click Here
PRR K-4 #5406 seen here in 1943 at Hall Interlocking, just past Jamaica Terminal. Click Here
