LTV Squad Explores the Montauk Cutoff in Long Island City

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This is a 1982 photo of a long inbound freight LIRR freight train arriving in ‘Yard A’ at sunnyside, as seen from the Honeywell Avenue bridge. You can see the 7 train and CN West factory in the distance. The train is being lead by 4 “C420” freight locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company, located in upstate NY – they’re still painted in a red white & blue paint job applied to many LIRR locomotives in celebration of the 1976 US bicentennial.

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