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Owner: Long Island Rail Road Company
Model:Alco C420Built As:LI 227 (C420)
Serial Number:6006-06Order No:21304
Frame Number:6006-06Built:8/1968
Other locos with this serial:  LI 227(C420) LIRR 227(C420)
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Working the siding
Title:  Working the siding
Description:  RF 63 works the siding at Yaphank
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 12/7/2014 3:49:49 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  644   Comments: 0
Making him wait
Title:  Making him wait
Description:  RF 62 waits in the hole as a westbound Ronkonkoma branch train rolls past.
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 12/9/2014 2:28:55 AM
Location:  Pine Aire, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 274(GP38-2) LI 227(C420)
Views:  695   Comments: 0
All Alco meet
Title:  All Alco meet
Description:  The origination point for RF 62, the Riverhead freight, was at a small station in Pine Aire in Suffolk county. The train would switch its cars and a local customer in between rush hour commuter trains, clearing up for each one til the morning rush was over. Here we see RF 62 in the hole for an early morning westbound behind FA 2 606
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:46:16 PM
Location:  Pine Aire, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 606(Power Car)
Views:  881   Comments: 0
Hooping them up
Title:  Hooping them up
Description:  The operator at KO block station in Ronkonkoma hands up orders to westbound freight RF 63. C 420's were typical power for this train. Date is approximate.
Photo Date:  8/19/1986  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 10:13:10 PM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  1106   Comments: 2
Changes coming
Title:  Changes coming
Description:  RF 63 rolls past the Ronkonkoma station and under a bridge that has been smoked by E6, H10, G5 and K4 steam power. The whole scene will change in another 15 months when the Ronkonkoma electrification project is complete. Already the earthwork and utilities are being installed, as well as some grading.
Photo Date:  10/7/1986  Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:49:29 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  701   Comments: 1
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/18/1986  Upload Date: 9/23/2017 12:30:56 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  522   Comments: 0
RF 7
Title:  RF 7
Description:  LIRR RF 7 heads east past the station at Bellerose NY. Date is approximate.
Photo Date:  10/19/1986  Upload Date: 10/5/2011 11:28:25 PM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  987   Comments: 1
Quiet at Queens Village
Title:  Quiet at Queens Village
Description:  RF 11, with consecutively numbered C 420's, cools its heels at the Queens Village station as it waits for a late night parade of passenger trains. There will be an eastbound Montauk train, followed by an Oyster Bay train. Once they clear, the freight will get the board to go east to Pine Aire with 64 cars and cabin #64. Tonights train is unusual, having three C 420s. This train almost always got two units.
Photo Date:  1/15/1987  Upload Date: 5/22/2011 3:01:00 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  837   Comments: 0
Waiting for the board
Title:  Waiting for the board
Description:  RF 11 was pulled up to the signal on track 4 at Queens to wait for traffic, not uncommon as there was a flurry of passenger trains around 1 AM every night. Todays train has three C 420s instead of the usual two. Pennsys position light signals were always interesting to watch, especially so at night. Hell get going after the Oyster Bay train clears going east.
Photo Date:  1/15/1987  Upload Date: 12/31/2014 2:50:27 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  639   Comments: 0
Waiting at the station
Title:  Waiting at the station
Description:  RF 11 was cooling its heels waiting for traffic at Queens Village in this platform shot, also showing the waiting area on the westbound platform across the tracks. Lead unit 228 seems to have a new coat of paint.
Photo Date:  1/15/1987  Upload Date: 12/31/2014 3:04:18 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  595   Comments: 1
Passing the potato exchange
Title:  Passing the potato exchange
Description:  RF 63 passes the Long Island potato exchange. Potatoes were once a significant source of traffic on the LIRR, but have long since gone to trucks by this date.
Photo Date:  2/3/1987  Upload Date: 6/20/2011 2:01:26 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  604   Comments: 0
RF 63 at Riverhead
Title:  RF 63 at Riverhead
Description:  RF 63 with a pair of C 420s about to head back west to Pine Aire. When the train arrives there, it will work its train and tie up. Later that night, after rush hour, it will work to Fresh Pond as train RF 91.
Photo Date:  2/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/22/2011 3:02:54 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  713   Comments: 0
Under the bridge
Title:  Under the bridge
Description:  RF 63 passes under an old local bridge as seen from the William Floyd Parkway. This is one of the more rural scenes on Long Island at the time.
Photo Date:  2/3/1987  Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:16:18 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  628   Comments: 1
Rolling for Pine Aire
Title:  Rolling for Pine Aire
Description:  RF 63 rolls west through the pine barrens approaching Medford on a snowy afternoon.
Photo Date:  2/5/1987  Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:04:05 AM
Location:  Medford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  454   Comments: 0
Starting west
Title:  Starting west
Description:  RF 63 has just left Riverhead and is working its way to a pick up at Yaphank and hopefully no rush hour delays getting back to Pine Aire.
Photo Date:  2/5/1987  Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:08:18 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  501   Comments: 0
Sign of days gone by
Title:  Sign of days gone by
Description:  The building behind RF 63 is the Long Island Potato Exchange, once a huge deal on the Island. As late as the 1950s, solid trains of potatoes would be sent west from Riverhead. Better roads and higher real estate values meant fewer potatoes, and most of them now go by truck. Imagine three or four C 420s and 90 cars of potatoes-what a sight!!
Photo Date:  2/5/1987  Upload Date: 12/31/2014 4:11:33 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  LI 222(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  365   Comments: 0
Working the team track
Title:  Working the team track
Description:  RF 63 works the team track at Riverhead as its train sits on the lead
Photo Date:  3/10/1987  Upload Date: 6/20/2011 2:06:42 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  531   Comments: 0
RF 62
Title:  RF 62
Description:  RF 62 behind the typical pair of C 420s passes the station site of Calverton, just west of Riverhead, on the Main Line.
Photo Date:  3/16/1987  Upload Date: 11/12/2011 10:56:33 PM
Location:  Calverton, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  397   Comments: 0
C420s and a G 5
Title:  C420s and a G 5
Description:  LIRR C 420s on RF 63 meet their predecessor at Riverhead, where LIRR G5 39 is undergoing a long restoration.
Photo Date:  3/17/1987  Upload Date: 6/19/2011 3:31:37 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 39(4-6-2)
Views:  1041   Comments: 0
Working the team track
Title:  Working the team track
Description:  Once a common sight in many towns, the team track had become a rare feature. Riverhead still had one(as did Queens Village, though I dont recall seeing any cars spotted there in the 80s), here being switched by RF 62s C 420s. The crews on this train did not get radios, so hand signals were the standard way for the trainmen to communicate. It was a real lesson in old style railroading.
Photo Date:  3/19/1987  Upload Date: 4/18/2015 3:52:51 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  321   Comments: 0
RF 63 and a relic
Title:  RF 63 and a relic
Description:  RF 63 passes the Riverhead station and restoration project G 5 39 as it heads down to work the team track.
Photo Date:  3/19/1987  Upload Date: 4/21/2015 3:44:13 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 39(4-6-2)
Views:  551   Comments: 0
Farm like scene
Title:  Farm like scene
Description:  The east end was once farm land, but by the late 80s, much of it had been sold off for development as real estate values became greater than the agricultural value. Manorville seemed to have escaped that trend even in the late 80s, as this scene of a red house in a rural setting shows. RF 63 rolls past behind the usual pair of C 420s.
Photo Date:  3/19/1987  Upload Date: 4/18/2015 3:56:55 AM
Location:  Manorville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  204   Comments: 0
Potatoes!!
Title:  Potatoes!!
Description:  RF 63 gets ready to go west as it sits in front of what was once one of LIRRs prime traffic sources-the Suffolk Potato Exchange. The LIRR at the end of WW II would ship 110 car produce blocks from Suffolk County, one of Americas main potato producers. Now it all goes by truck, whats left of it.
Photo Date:  3/19/1987  Upload Date: 4/18/2015 4:05:06 AM
Location:  Riverhead, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  255   Comments: 1
View from the bridge
Title:  View from the bridge
Description:  In this case, William Floyd Parkway. RF 63 rolls under a local road heading back to Pine Aire.
Photo Date:  3/19/1987  Upload Date: 4/18/2015 4:09:18 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
Back in the zone
Title:  Back in the zone
Description:  RF 63 passes the block limit signal at KO, entering the commuter zone. Note the third rail in place. It is now nine months til electric trains will run here from New York and Brooklyn
Photo Date:  4/9/1987  Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:11:32 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  194   Comments: 0
Doing what Alcos do
Title:  Doing what Alcos do
Description:  RF 63 gets started from its pick up at Yaphank with gusto. Hell need to hustle if hes going to get his window ahead of the afternoon rush once he gets to Ronkonkoma. Pour it on!!
Photo Date:  4/9/1987  Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:15:34 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  233   Comments: 1
Just passing through
Title:  Just passing through
Description:  Youd never know it to see the place now, but Manorville was once an important junction on the LIRR. There was a branch here that split from the Main Line, connecting to the Montauk Branch at Eastport. It was commonly used by trains going to the Hamptons and east. It was abandoned in 1949; Manorville was never the same. RF 63 passes through without even breaking its pace.
Photo Date:  4/9/1987  Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:22:30 AM
Location:  Manorville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  189   Comments: 0
Working YA
Title:  Working YA
Description:  RF 62s caboose is seen in the distance as the train gets underway after setting out a cut of cars for pick up on the return trip. YA block station is at right.
Photo Date:  4/9/1987  Upload Date: 4/21/2015 3:46:56 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 226(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
Ballast Train
Title:  Ballast Train
Description:  C-420 #227
Photo Date:  4/18/1987  Upload Date: 3/13/2016 5:28:07 PM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
Old station
Title:  Old station
Description:  Not quite yet, but it will be soon. The electrification project is progressing, as evidenced by the new signal bridge in the foreground. RF 63 passes the station which will be replaced once the new facility is built. It will open next January.
Photo Date:  4/20/1987  Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:33:19 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 224(C420)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
RF 63 with two cabooses
Title:  RF 63 with two cabooses
Description:  RF 63 is seen at Yaphank with a pair of bay window cabin cars.
Photo Date:  4/20/1987  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 7:52:02 PM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  399   Comments: 0
Double your fun
Title:  Double your fun
Description:  RF 63 has a pair of bay window cabooses, giving the brakeman lining the switch at far left a choice of accommodations. No parlor cars for the crew, though!!
Photo Date:  4/20/1987  Upload Date: 4/23/2015 1:24:44 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  LI 224(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  226   Comments: 1
Light centuries
Title:  Light centuries
Description:  A pair of C 420s rolls east past Bellerose station.
Photo Date:  11/22/1987  Upload Date: 6/17/2015 2:29:38 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  326   Comments: 0
Headed for Fresh Pond
Title:  Headed for Fresh Pond
Description:  RF 57 has finished its work for the day and is headed through Floral Park on its way to tie up.
Photo Date:  1/10/1988  Upload Date: 6/24/2015 4:19:24 AM
Location:  Floral Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  287   Comments: 0
Working the siding
Title:  Working the siding
Description:  RF 57 is working the printer at New Hyde Park, switching cars in and out on the long siding there. Hell spend 30 minutes going back and forth before getting everything placed and pulled.
Photo Date:  1/10/1988  Upload Date: 6/24/2015 4:21:52 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  360   Comments: 0
Walking it back
Title:  Walking it back
Description:  RF 57s conductor is walking back with the shove to complete the work at the customer. He will shortly get permission out on the main to run to Fresh Pond.
Photo Date:  1/10/1988  Upload Date: 6/24/2015 4:25:32 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 227(C420)
Views:  261   Comments: 1
Alcos by the coal dock
Title:  Alcos by the coal dock
Description:  A pair of C 420s, now stored since the Ronkonkoma electrification rendered newer diesels available for freight service, pose by the concrete coal dock at Morris Park shop. The Alcos will have a brief reprieve, and return to service for a few more years. The coaling tower has, however, seen its last steam engine. The tracks in the foreground are the Atlantic Branch, which are coming out of the Atlantic Av tunnel, where they have been since just east of Nostrand Av station in Brooklyn. The cars beyond the Alcos are part of the alcohol train, and are equipped to spray an alcohol based chemical on the third rail to keep it from getting iced up in winter.
Photo Date:  2/5/1988  Upload Date: 6/27/2015 4:31:17 AM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
C420's
Title:  C420's
Description:  LIRR C420's await the trip to South America at Conrail's Selkirk yard.
Photo Date:  8/26/1989  Upload Date: 6/9/2007 2:12:16 AM
Location:  Selkirk, NY
Author:  Donald Albertson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 228(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 222(C420)
Views:  1891   Comments: 0
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/1995  Upload Date: 11/6/2018 3:42:32 PM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  177   Comments: 0
Waiting at the old Ronkonkoma Railroad Station
Title:  Waiting at the old Ronkonkoma Railroad Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/1995  Upload Date: 11/6/2018 3:43:04 PM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  158   Comments: 0
Waiting for new orders
Title:  Waiting for new orders
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/1995  Upload Date: 11/6/2018 3:43:49 PM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  143   Comments: 0
Eastbound Alcoa hauling a Frieght
Title:  Eastbound Alcoa hauling a Frieght
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/1995  Upload Date: 11/6/2018 3:44:36 PM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  187   Comments: 0
LI 227
Title:  LI 227
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/1995  Upload Date: 11/6/2018 3:45:09 PM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420)
Views:  146   Comments: 0


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