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Long Island Rail Road – Image Gallery

By Angela Cotey | January 24, 2017

| Last updated on May 27, 2021


Images of passenger service on the "Route of the Dashing Commuter"

Chesapeake and Ohio
MP54 train

MP54 electric multiple-unit train eastbound at Bayside on Port Washington Branch, March 1947.
James G. La Vake

Chesapeake and Ohio
An illustration of a business man running in a hurry
“Dashing Dan” herald

“Route of the Dashing Commuter” herald featuring “Dashing Dan,” 1950s.
Don Wood

An illustration of a business man running in a hurry
A passenger train
CPA20-5 at Mineola

CPA20-5 2004 with Oyster Bay–Long Island City train 233 at Mineola, 1950.
John Flood

A passenger train
A train with a steam engine
G5s at Roslyn

G5s 4-6-0 26 with train 552 just east of Roslyn on Oyster Bay Branch, May 1951.
Robert B. Dunnet

A train with a steam engine
A passenger train
Train 4223

CPA20-5 2003 with train 4223 from Ronkonkoma approaches Jamaica, Dec. 3, 1950.
Edward Theisinger

A passenger train
A passenger train in station
MP54 train

MP54 electric multiple-unit train at Pennsylvania Station, New York.
William D. Middleton

A passenger train in station
two steam engines
G5s Ten-Wheelers

G5s Ten-Wheelers 20 and 23 laying over at Oyster Bay, Oct. 24, 1942.
D. W. McLaughlin

two steam engines
a diesel locomotive and a coach car at a station
Greenport shuttle

RS3 1552 and coach awaiting departure from Greenport for Ronkonkoma, Apr. 7, 1977.
John R. Taibi

a diesel locomotive and a coach car at a station
a couple of people sitting on an observer car
Cannonball

Parlor-observation car Setauket on Penn Station–Montauk Cannonball at Jamaica, 1960s.
Suzanne R. Boorsch

a couple of people sitting on an observer car
Diesel powered train on drawbridge
Double-deckers

“Double-deck” M.U. cars at Jamaica, January 1971.
F. G. Zahn

Diesel powered train on drawbridge
a passenger train on an overpass
Morning rush at Jamaica

From left: Penn Station-bound train of new M.U. cars, Long Island City-bound diesel train, Brooklyn-bound train of older M.U. cars, August 1956.
William D. Middleton

a passenger train on an overpass
a passenger train on an overpass
Train 554

H16-44 1508 with train 554 to Oyster Bay at Roslyn, July 1952.
Robert B. Dunne

a passenger train on an overpass
a bunch of passengers getting onto a passenger car
Babylon connection

Passengers transfer from New York–Babylon M.U. train 120 to Babylon–Patchogue RDC train 64 at Babylon, Aug. 29, 1956.
William D. Middleton

a bunch of passengers getting onto a passenger car
a steam engine bellowing a huge plume of steam
Main Line local

G5s No. 32 with eastbound Main Line local approaching Ronkonkoma, November 1947.
C. V. Parkinson

a steam engine bellowing a huge plume of steam
a couple of diesel locomotives
New C420 diesels

Weeks-old Alco Century 420s — eastbound No. 201 in siding, westbound 202 on main — meet at Smithtown on Port Jefferson line, Dec. 29, 1963.
Alfred R. Jaeger

a couple of diesel locomotives
looking down on a passenger train passing by a hill
Cannonball

New York–Montauk Cannonball at Napeague Beach, July 1964.
Ron Ziel

looking down on a passenger train passing by a hill
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