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1939 Worlds Fair |
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I think my grandfather may have actually shot the 1939 Fair photos-Dad was seven at the time-but Ill include them in Dads album. Heres a shot of what looks like a B&O 4-4-0, probably a replica. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/1939 Upload Date: 11/16/2014 3:50:26 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam |
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286 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Star of the show |
| Description: |
Pennsy sent this T 1 to the Fair. My grandfather got this photo. |
| Photo Date: |
5/20/1939 Upload Date: 11/16/2014 3:51:23 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
PRR 6100(UNKNOWN) |
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701 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
1964 Worlds Fair |
| Description: |
Twenty five years after the 1939 Fair, there was another one in New York. The Long Island RR had an exhibit there with a fabulous model railroad layout featuring LIRR equipment. Hopefully Ill find the slides of that. Im sure Dad took some. There was also a "live diesel" railroad around the exhibit, with a train you could ride. As I recall, it had an EMD cab unit-odd, since LIRR would not get their first EMDs for another dozen years, but I guess the people who built the amusement park trains didnt make FM C Liners-and open cars. Thats me at the ripe age of five in the summer of 1964, enjoying the ride. |
| Photo Date: |
8/23/1964 Upload Date: 11/16/2014 3:56:40 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Passenger,Action |
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361 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
SO you think its easy shooting models?? |
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The Port Authority set up a model display at the fair, which was a lot more comprehensive than I have photos for right now. This set of ATSF PAs was one of the trains running on it, odd, since the layout had many features of the NY metro area. Dad got a somewhat fuzzy shot, but he was not used to shooting models. As any of you who have tried it know, its not as simple as shooting the big ones. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1964 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 3:06:37 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Model,Action |
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74 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Engineers view |
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LIRR had a "narrow gauge" train set up. It was maybe 3 foot gauge, with a diesel and cars painted in the LIRR "Worlds Fair" scheme, similar to the paint on the prototype. The power was an actual diesel, and we see it from the engineers viewpoint. I think the track was better than the LIRRs at that time. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1964 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 3:10:14 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 701(UNKNOWN) |
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137 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Fair train |
| Description: |
The narrow gauge train that ran around the LIRR exhibit at the fair was headed by this model F 3, oddly, the only EMD on the all Alco LIRR at the time. It was fun to ride, though, especially if you were five, as I was, and not already a rivet counter. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1964 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 3:13:50 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
| Locomotives: |
LI 701(UNKNOWN) |
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228 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
PA exhibit |
| Description: |
The Port Authority exhibit at the fair. They did a good job modeling the NY area. Hope I am able to find more and better photos. As I recall from my five year old mind, it was a pretty large layout, with, among other roads, the LIRR represented on it. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1964 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 3:18:58 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Model,Action |
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73 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
How long til we get this signal?? |
| Description: |
A young would be engineer(me) waits on a signal to clear at the helm of an FA. Actually, it was a real cab off a retired New Haven unit that the LIRR had cut the cab off, and put on display at the fair, with the controls intact. It would not be the last time I was in an FA cab. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1964 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 3:27:42 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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InCab,Action |
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73 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
About to catch the hoop |
| Description: |
Im looking out the firemans side of the FA on display at the fair, looking like Im about to catch the orders from the op. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1964 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 3:31:22 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
InCab,Action |
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89 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Checking the train |
| Description: |
Im looking back at the train, checking for defects-well, in my mind, anyway. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1964 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 3:41:12 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
InCab,Action |
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61 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Notching it out |
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Jamaica next!! Im getting a roll on, smoking those Alcos as I get underway for Jamaica. The LIRR painted this cab in the Worlds Fair colors of blue and orange, giving it the number 1964. It would eventually wind up as part of a day camp in Rockville Centre, and it may still be there. There was also the rear platform of a heavyweight obs that was similarly painted, it went to the camp along with the FA cab. Interestingly, by the end of the decade, FA's would be a common sight on the LIRR as power cars providing light and heat to converted MP 72's. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1964 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 3:53:10 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
InCab,Action |
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66 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Just another commuter |
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Headed for home, waiting for the conductor to lift my ticket. I have no idea what happened to the ticket. I wish I still had it, it would be an interesting piece of railroad paper now. |
| Photo Date: |
9/20/1964 Upload Date: 4/22/2016 3:54:50 AM |
| Location: |
Flushing, NY |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Passenger,Action |
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95 Comments: 0 |
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