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Posted by SUBWAYMAN on Sat Feb 13 18:49:04 2016, in response to LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Fri Feb 12 14:33:49 2016. There will be plenty more videos coming this year. :) |
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Posted by LuchAAA on Sun Feb 14 01:07:57 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Sat Feb 13 18:49:04 2016. all from the same two stations? |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Feb 14 03:51:37 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Feb 14 01:07:57 2016. Owned. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Feb 14 03:51:54 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Sat Feb 13 18:49:04 2016. Stay in school. Don't do drugs. |
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Posted by SUBWAYMAN on Sun Feb 14 06:00:17 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Feb 14 03:51:54 2016. I'm not in school. |
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Posted by SUBWAYMAN on Sun Feb 14 06:20:35 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by LuchAAA on Sun Feb 14 01:07:57 2016. No. There may be other stations. |
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Posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sun Feb 14 15:21:38 2016, in response to LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Fri Feb 12 14:33:49 2016. Very nice! |
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Posted by nostalgia on Sun Feb 14 19:09:40 2016, in response to LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Fri Feb 12 14:33:49 2016. I remember when MP54s charged through Seaford and it was a grade level station. |
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Posted by SUBWAYMAN on Sun Feb 14 23:51:07 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by ChicagoMotorman on Sun Feb 14 15:21:38 2016. Thank you! |
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Posted by SUBWAYMAN on Tue Feb 16 17:24:28 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by nostalgia on Sun Feb 14 19:09:40 2016. Cool! I'm sure the MP54s were quite something to ride! :) |
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Posted by nostalgia on Tue Feb 16 19:09:27 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Tue Feb 16 17:24:28 2016. The first and last three cars of long trains were smoking cars. They sounded like BMT Standards leaving stations. Back then, there was a whistle communicator. Today, it's a buzzer. |
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Posted by Joe V on Wed Feb 17 15:58:53 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Tue Feb 16 17:24:28 2016. They were a lot of fun, had a lot of variety, and a lot of personality. I am heartbroken that not a single arch roof type exists.The Pennsy ones were fun too. The old Reading and DL&W MU's just didn't do it for me. |
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Posted by Avid reader on Fri Feb 19 16:05:36 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by nostalgia on Sun Feb 14 19:09:40 2016. I remember when MP54s charged through Seaford, bear foot in the snow, and it was uphill, both ways, at station. |
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Posted by SUBWAYMAN on Fri Feb 19 22:29:55 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by Joe V on Wed Feb 17 15:58:53 2016. I'm pretty sure the MP54s were completely done with by the time they were retired in the early 1970's. A few of them were 60 years old by the time they were retired. It is a shame that very few of the LIRR MP54s have been preserved. |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Feb 20 10:19:29 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Fri Feb 19 22:29:55 2016. Some of the 4100 and 4900's that got the 1950's rebuild were in pretty good shape when they got rid of them. They were either built or motorized in 1930.Ronan decided to defer all maintenance on them, and trashed a lot of hard-to-get spare parts in 1967 to force his M-1 agenda, which blew up in his face in 1969-1970. |
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Posted by tunnelrat on Sat Feb 20 10:54:28 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by SUBWAYMAN on Fri Feb 19 22:29:55 2016. in 1964/5 the lirr was talking to the T.A.about buying "surplus" BMT standards & D-types to run on its rails. |
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Posted by Joe V on Sat Feb 20 11:07:53 2016, in response to Re: LIRR action at Massapequa and Seaford, posted by tunnelrat on Sat Feb 20 10:54:28 2016. It was "Standards", because of their similarity to SIRT cars.The FRA did not permit it. I don't know how a train of those low horsepower cars that couldn't run over 39MPH be useful anywhere except the West Hempstead Scoot, and even that. That was because a few dozen 1908-1913-built MP54's that were not rebuilt in the 1950's yet survived the 1955 & 1963 Pullman Standard onslaughts were still running and falling apart. I have vague memories of a bunch of Pennsy MP54's sitting on the Mail siding west of Jamaica in the mid-1960's. They may have found some parts useful, which Ronan likely junked. |
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