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Owner: Long Island Rail Road Company
Model:Alco C420Built As:LI 228 (C420)
Serial Number:6006-07Order No:21304
Frame Number:6006-07Built:8/1968
Other locos with this serial:  LI 228(C420) LIRR 228(C420)
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LIRR 228 With Train 16, The Cannonball
Title:  LIRR 228 With Train 16, The Cannonball
Description:  For rear end of this ytrain see: http://railfan44.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1567512 John Deasy emailed me: The first car behind locomotive 228 is a Pullman lightweight six double bedroom buffet lounge, viewed from the bedroom side of the car. LIRR acquired five of these "FALLS" series sleeper-lounges, built in 1940, from PRR in 1968 for use in parlor car service.
Photo Date:  6/16/1972  Upload Date: 4/16/2009 1:37:07 PM
Location:  Westhampton, NY
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420)
Views:  2444   Comments: 0
LI 215
Title:  LI 215
Description:  Westbound from Montauk to Jamaica. Please excuse the less-than-sharp photo, but this was the only time I ever shot two LIRR C420s with the long hoods coupled together. Short hoods together was common, but not this arrangement. Train has nine ping pongs, a parlor car and a baggage car on the rear.
Photo Date:  6/25/1972  Upload Date: 12/18/2008 12:26:53 PM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 215(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  2370   Comments: 0
LI 228
Title:  LI 228
Description:  Going away shot of LI 215 and 228 with their long hoods coupled.
Photo Date:  6/25/1972  Upload Date: 12/18/2008 1:37:39 PM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 215(C420)
Views:  1074   Comments: 0
LI 228
Title:  LI 228
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1974  Upload Date: 6/24/2016 11:06:46 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420)
Views:  641   Comments: 0
BAR 60, LI 228 on a Montauk train
Title:  BAR 60, LI 228 on a Montauk train
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/15/1974  Upload Date: 5/30/2021 9:42:45 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420)
Views:  211   Comments: 2
LI 228
Title:  LI 228
Description:  Actual date not known. 126 Instamatic photo.
Photo Date:  10/27/1974  Upload Date: 12/28/2021 8:02:32 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
LI 1520 on RF-56
Title:  LI 1520 on RF-56
Description:  At the start of the Kings Park Hospital siding waiting for crew to arrive. Actual date of photo not documented.
Photo Date:  7/1/1975  Upload Date: 6/21/2016 11:57:06 AM
Location:  Kings Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 1520(RS2) LI 228(C420)
Views:  699   Comments: 2
LI 253, 219, 226, 228
Title:  LI 253, 219, 226, 228
Description:  Actual date not known, all awaiting rush hour asignments.
Photo Date:  3/1/1976  Upload Date: 9/24/2024 10:38:05 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 253(GP38-2) LI 219(C420) LI 226(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  34   Comments: 1
LI 228 rests over the weekend with a newly painted underframe
Title:  LI 228 rests over the weekend with a newly painted underframe
Description:  Actual date not known
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 9/24/2024 10:38:59 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420)
Views:  16   Comments: 1
LI 604, 228, 616
Title:  LI 604, 228, 616
Description:  228 & 616 got new shoes! (truck & underframe paint)
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 8/15/2016 10:38:19 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 604(Power Car) LI 228(C420) LI 616(Power Car)
Views:  938   Comments: 2
LI 228
Title:  LI 228
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1976  Upload Date: 9/9/2018 4:06:17 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Edwin G Betz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420)
Views:  227   Comments: 0
LI 228
Title:  LI 228
Description:  Roof detail, scanned for a friend doing a model of one!
Photo Date:  6/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/30/2012 12:01:59 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420)
Views:  493   Comments: 0
LIRR 228
Title:  LIRR 228
Description:  Oyster Bay train arrives Jamaica station with standard (2900's) cars
Photo Date:  2/1/1977  Upload Date: 1/5/2007 7:15:37 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420)
Views:  1695   Comments: 1
Old KO Yards
Title:  Old KO Yards
Description:  Two Alco C-420s 223 & 228 wait to get thier assignments after a heavy snow fall Photo by Bob Bender
Photo Date:  12/26/1977  Upload Date: 12/1/2009 10:00:44 PM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Bob Bender
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 223(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  1293   Comments: 2
Morning line up
Title:  Morning line up
Description:  A set of C 420s is on the ready track at Holban Yard, ready to move out with whatever the yardmaster has put together for them. Theyll go east later in the day. Holban, a combination of HOLlis and st alBANs, sat between the two sections of Queens, in a triangle shape, bounded by the Main Line on the north, and the Montauk Branch on the south. The Montauk Branch is seen behind the power, its viaduct crossing over the eastbound Main Line and yard lead just west of the yard at a place called Hillside, where there was an abandoned station. It is used by trains going to Babylon, as well as a few diesel trains going farther east.
Photo Date:  4/26/1979  Upload Date: 11/30/2016 5:04:32 AM
Location:  Hollis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 227(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  930   Comments: 0
LI 228 on Oyster Bay train
Title:  LI 228 on Oyster Bay train
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/5/1979  Upload Date: 5/17/2020 11:40:57 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420)
Views:  183   Comments: 2
LIRR 228
Title:  LIRR 228
Description:  LIRR 228 sits and waits patiently for Monday morning, so work can resume on the welded rail install of the late 70's on the Port Jefferson Branch
Photo Date:  10/10/1979  Upload Date: 1/6/2008 3:30:48 PM
Location:  Saint James, NY
Author:  Len Torney
Categories:  Roster,Track
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420)
Views:  631   Comments: 0
One for the ALCO lovers
Title:  One for the ALCO lovers
Description:  A westbound builds up speed as it departs Saint James station, while C420 228 sits on the team track pulling MOW duty during the welded rail installation of the late 70's
Photo Date:  10/15/1980  Upload Date: 1/2/2008 10:54:34 PM
Location:  Saint James, NY
Author:  Len Torney
Categories:  Roster,Track
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 616(Power Car)
Views:  1062   Comments: 0
Holban power
Title:  Holban power
Description:  A set of power waiting to go out sits on the ready track at Holban Yard.
Photo Date:  9/13/1983  Upload Date: 11/25/2013 1:36:20 AM
Location:  Hillside, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 227(C420) LI 226(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  1069   Comments: 2
RF 7
Title:  RF 7
Description:  RF 7 rolls through Fresh Pond en route to Yard A
Photo Date:  9/13/1983  Upload Date: 11/25/2013 1:32:24 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  849   Comments: 1
RF 7 at Fresh Pond tower
Title:  RF 7 at Fresh Pond tower
Description:  RF 7 passes under Conrails Bay Ridge line and MTAs M line, and Fresh Pond tower, the roof of which is seen above the power. Note the dwarf signal where the Bay Ridge line connects to the LIRR
Photo Date:  9/13/1983  Upload Date: 11/25/2013 1:34:43 AM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  896   Comments: 1
Work train
Title:  Work train
Description:  In June 1984, there was a washout on the Port Washington Branch about 1/2 mile east of Little Neck, which closed the line for a couple of weeks while the repairs were made. These C 420s brought the work train out and were parked at Douglaston station, a very unusual circumstance. View is from the Douglaston Parkway overpass.
Photo Date:  6/14/1984  Upload Date: 6/26/2014 3:41:34 AM
Location:  Douglaston, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 229(C420)
Views:  1067   Comments: 1
Work train power
Title:  Work train power
Description:  A platform view of the power for the work train that had brought fill for the Little Neck washout.
Photo Date:  6/14/1984  Upload Date: 6/26/2014 3:45:28 AM
Location:  Douglaston, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 224(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  929   Comments: 0
RF 91
Title:  RF 91
Description:  RF 91 was the westbound road freight that ran Sunday through Thursday nights from Pine Aire to Fresh Pond. It worked some of the industrial sidings in Nassau county, such as one just east of the New Hyde Park station. It has stopped in the station while the ground man lines the switches to access the customer. Time?? Around 0300.
Photo Date:  3/4/1986  Upload Date: 11/15/2014 4:21:13 AM
Location:  New Hyde Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  589   Comments: 0
RF 7 west
Title:  RF 7 west
Description:  RF 7 works on the Montauk branch at Fresh Pond. We see it passing under the Conrail line from Hell Gate Bridge, where interchange traffic is exchanged between the LIRR and CR. The dwarf signal protects the connecting track from the Bay Ridge line, which curves sharply off to the left out of the picture, from trains leaving Fresh Pond yard. The train is about to pass Pond tower, and then will roll under the NYCTA Myrtle Av line, at the time the M train.
Photo Date:  10/14/1986  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:14:31 PM
Location:  Fresh Pond, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 226(C420)
Views:  759   Comments: 1
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:  1065   Comments: 1
Local power
Title:  Local power
Description:  Long Island had a small yard at Pinelawn. The power there was usually an MP 15, but occasionally would be one or two C 420s. Today I got lucky and caught a pair of Centuries there. Note the maintenance trucks at right. LIRR kept the blue/yellow on its vehicles long after the trains went to blue and white.
Photo Date:  10/21/1986  Upload Date: 12/15/2014 3:58:16 AM
Location:  Pinelawn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  528   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:  694   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:  664   Comments: 1
Commuters rolling east
Title:  Commuters rolling east
Description:  RF 63 has tied up in the siding at Deer Park, clearing up at the end of his day for the evening rush. Train 254 with MP 15 163 leading goes past the old Deer Park station en route to the end of its run in Ronkonkoma. The station here is no longer in use for passengers, having been supplanted by the new high level station built as part of the Ronkonkoma electrification. It will be kept for the freight crews and MOW.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/2/2015 4:26:33 AM
Location:  Deer Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  578   Comments: 0
C 420s meet a Ronkonkoma train
Title:  C 420s meet a Ronkonkoma train
Description:  RF 63 has tied up at the old Deer Park station, meeting an eastbound Ronkonkoma train which is pulling away as it heads for Wyandanch and Ronkonkoma
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 10:43:39 PM
Location:  Deer Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420) LI 257(GP38-2)
Views:  1075   Comments: 0
Pulling in
Title:  Pulling in
Description:  RF 63 takes the siding at SG in Brentwood. It will shortly meet an eastbound commuter train, then head on to Deer Park to tie up. The electrification project is progressing-note the third rail in place.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 1:37:38 AM
Location:  Brentwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
Made it
Title:  Made it
Description:  RF 63 is in the siding at Deer Park, its new base of operations. The old terminal, Pine Aire, was eliminated as part of the Ronkonkoma electrification project, as was the Deer Park station-note the platform has been partly removed, and the notice for the relocation on the station building.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 1:57:15 AM
Location:  Deer Park, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  493   Comments: 0
NY 112
Title:  NY 112
Description:  RF 63 crosses NY 112 in Medford.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:00:54 AM
Location:  Medford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  457   Comments: 0
Old station, new signals
Title:  Old station, new signals
Description:  RF 63 rolls past the erstwhile Ronkonkoma station and a new signal bridge, part of electrification project that will bring third rail and MU trains here, as well as a new station
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:17:47 AM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  469   Comments: 0
Pulling past the switch
Title:  Pulling past the switch
Description:  RF 63 has backed out of the siding at SG and is resuming its westward trek to tie up at DK
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:23:07 AM
Location:  Brentwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  340   Comments: 0
By the block limit
Title:  By the block limit
Description:  RF 63 passes block limit staton YA as it gets underway toward Ronkonkoma and Deer Park
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:26:01 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  335   Comments: 0
Not much of a station
Title:  Not much of a station
Description:  To be fair, there was not much traffic there, and I doubt Yaphank ever had much of a station to begin with. This bus shelter affair is what serves in 1987 as RF63 rolls past
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:28:36 AM
Location:  Yaphank, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  386   Comments: 0
RF 63
Title:  RF 63
Description:  RF 63 rolls into Brentwood, where it will take the siding at SG for a meet with an eastbound commuter train.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 2:32:52 AM
Location:  Brentwood, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 225(C420) LI 228(C420)
Views:  340   Comments: 0
Smokin' it up
Title:  Smokin' it up
Description:  RF 62 does what Alcos do as it accelerates from a customer set out at Holtsville.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/3/2015 4:09:12 AM
Location:  Holtsville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420)
Views:  380   Comments: 0
Short train, long view
Title:  Short train, long view
Description:  The flatness of Long Island is apparent in this shot of a 28 car RF 62 rolling through Holtsville, its caboose tucked in behind the power.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/5/2015 1:42:08 AM
Location:  Holtsville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420)
Views:  579   Comments: 0
Rolling into the station
Title:  Rolling into the station
Description:  RF 62 rolls into Medford behind the usual pair of Alcos. Thats NY 112 down below.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/5/2015 1:28:58 AM
Location:  Medford, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420)
Views:  390   Comments: 0
Getting it together
Title:  Getting it together
Description:  RF 62 put their train together at Pine Aire before heading east.
Photo Date:  6/8/1987  Upload Date: 5/5/2015 1:34:09 AM
Location:  Pine Aire, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
East end bound
Title:  East end bound
Description:  RF 62 has passed the east end of the Ronkonkoma yard and is bound for Riverhead.
Photo Date:  6/16/1987  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 11:16:10 PM
Location:  Ronkonkoma, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LI 228(C420) LI 225(C420)
Views:  601   Comments: 0
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:  365   Comments: 0
End of the line
Title:  End of the line
Description:  The remaining 8 C 420s that had been working in freight service on the LIRR sit outside the Morris Park shops after being pulled from service following the opening of the Ronkonkoma electrification. The retirement would be short, as several would return to service, including 225 and 229, which would be repainted in the 1960s era blue and yellow MTA scheme.
Photo Date:  1/21/1988  Upload Date: 2/12/2012 7:41:49 PM
Location:  Jamaica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 229(C420) LI 223(C420) LI 228(C420) LI 222(C420)
Views:  974   Comments: 1
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:  1949   Comments: 0


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