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Pictures of LI 256
 
Owner: Long Island Rail Road Company
Model:EMD GP38-2Built As:LI 256 (GP38-2)
Serial Number:756091-7Order No:756091
Frame Number:756091-7Built:1/1976
Notes:1/76. Sold to LLPX, to RLK
Other locos with this serial:  LI 256(GP38-2) LLPX 2241(GP38-2)
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Brand new!
Title:  Brand new!
Description:  Just delivered yesterday 251, 253, 256 at Morris Park shop tracks after photos yesterday.
Photo Date:  1/29/1976  Upload Date: 1/1/2007 9:46:42 AM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 251(GP38-2) LI 253(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  1945   Comments: 1
LI 251, 253, 256 on delivery day just after arrival
Title:  LI 251, 253, 256 on delivery day just after arrival
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/29/1976  Upload Date: 1/29/2024 11:50:54 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 251(GP38-2) LI 253(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  311   Comments: 2
LI 256
Title:  LI 256
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1976  Upload Date: 4/5/2020 10:45:03 PM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  440   Comments: 1
LI 256
Title:  LI 256
Description:  Time exposure of station stop.
Photo Date:  7/1/1976  Upload Date: 3/4/2009 7:47:53 PM
Location:  West Hampton Dunes, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  638   Comments: 0
LI 256 EB on an Oyster Bay train
Title:  LI 256 EB on an Oyster Bay train
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/1/1979  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 9:45:45 PM
Location:  Merillon Ave., NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  266   Comments: 2
LI 256 sits where the museum grounds are now.
Title:  LI 256 sits where the museum grounds are now.
Description:  Actual date not known
Photo Date:  6/1/1981  Upload Date: 1/22/2025 9:21:10 PM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  134   Comments: 0
Returning From Morris Park Elephant style
Title:  Returning From Morris Park Elephant style
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/16/1981  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 9:04:17 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  981   Comments: 0
LIRR Gp-38s 256 & 277
Title:  LIRR Gp-38s 256 & 277
Description:  The 4 stacks in the background is part of the ventalation system for the Queens-Midtown Tunnel (auto tunnel)
Photo Date:  11/16/1981  Upload Date: 10/14/2012 9:16:38 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  829   Comments: 0
Surfs up!!
Title:  Surfs up!!
Description:  Long Island for a time painted their GP38s witha red stripe. The inspiration was their Bicentennial unit, 252, which was painted that way when it arrived in 1976. Eventually all the big road power got the treatment, which only lasted a few years.
Photo Date:  7/12/1983  Upload Date: 11/23/2013 2:00:24 AM
Location:  Queens Village, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  596   Comments: 0
EMD MP15AC
Title:  EMD MP15AC
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1983  Upload Date: 8/28/2008 3:52:06 PM
Location:  Brentwood, NY
Author:  Chris.J Allen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  845   Comments: 0
LI 107-607-276-256
Title:  LI 107-607-276-256
Description:  Actual date not known, 256 still has a red stripe after red was dropped from schemes.
Photo Date:  1/1/1984  Upload Date: 2/15/2025 8:51:09 PM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 107(SW1001) LI 607(Power Car) LI 276(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
Ronkonkoma train east
Title:  Ronkonkoma train east
Description:  A Ronkonkoma train has just cleared Queens and accelerates past the Bellrose station
Photo Date:  5/15/1984  Upload Date: 7/2/2014 3:55:05 PM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  710   Comments: 0
Ronkonkoma train
Title:  Ronkonkoma train
Description:  A Ronkonkoma train makes its Mineola stop at will shortly be headed east.
Photo Date:  6/11/1986  Upload Date: 11/22/2014 2:47:49 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  542   Comments: 0
LIRR 256
Title:  LIRR 256
Description:  One of the more obscure locations on the LIRR is Cold Spring Harbor, between Syosset and Huntington. Here we see a westbound Port Jeff train rolling through the station. This is one of the steeper grades on the LIRR, 1.4%. In steam days, even the K4's would struggle here.
Photo Date:  8/12/1986  Upload Date: 11/18/2011 1:11:01 AM
Location:  Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  634   Comments: 0
Early morning to work
Title:  Early morning to work
Description:  A westbound pushes toward New York with a train full of commuters eager to get to work.
Photo Date:  10/21/1986  Upload Date: 12/17/2014 2:47:32 AM
Location:  Farmingdale, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  474   Comments: 0
4012 in low sun
Title:  4012 in low sun
Description:  The winter is here, and 4012 bathes in the low sun, even with its mid day departure from Jamaica.
Photo Date:  1/11/1987  Upload Date: 12/29/2014 4:05:56 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  360   Comments: 0
Winter time 4012
Title:  Winter time 4012
Description:  Unlike its summer counterpart, the winter edition of train 4012, which ran from Jamaica to Montauk on Sunday afternoon.!This time of year, it was usually 8 or 9 cars behind a single unit, unlike the beach season, when the consist would swell to 12 or 14 cars behind a pair of GP 38-2s, usually back to back.
Photo Date:  2/8/1987  Upload Date: 4/17/2015 1:48:52 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  383   Comments: 1
Big station
Title:  Big station
Description:  One town that had a much bigger station than seemed necessary for the traffic was Farmingdale, with its three stories and brick construction. By the 1980s, there was an agent for the morning rush, and mostly an empty building.
Photo Date:  4/16/1987  Upload Date: 4/23/2015 2:42:08 AM
Location:  Farmingdale, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  557   Comments: 0
Ronkonkoma train
Title:  Ronkonkoma train
Description:  About an hour after 4012 rolled through, this Ronkonkoma train-4252, I believe-came east with a more standard set of a single GP 38, six or seven cars, and an FA(most of the time). Always fun to watch it bounce through the switches at Queens. In the background, RF 57 heads down the middle track toward Jamaica and Fresh Pond.
Photo Date:  8/16/1987  Upload Date: 5/23/2015 3:35:50 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  351   Comments: 0
Pushing at the new station
Title:  Pushing at the new station
Description:  A westbound Ronkonkma train is pushed toward Jamaica at the new platforms in Bethpage.
Photo Date:  10/29/1987  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 4:13:13 AM
Location:  Bethpage, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
Long train for winter
Title:  Long train for winter
Description:  Train 4012 was the mid day Sunday Montauk train, and usually ran long, as it was used to position equipment to accommondate returning weekenders. In winter it had no parlors, but could still run ten cars. We see it passing the station as it runs full out for Hicksville and the Central Branch.
Photo Date:  11/22/1987  Upload Date: 6/17/2015 2:42:54 AM
Location:  Bellerose, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  405   Comments: 0
High dollar
Title:  High dollar
Description:  There is one train that carries a parlor on the Oyster Bay branch, a subscription car reserved by a group of well to do commuters who use it as a private club. It is waiting out the weekend here in the Oyster Bay yard.
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 6/27/2015 3:48:59 AM
Location:  Oyster Bay, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  519   Comments: 0
A pair and parlors
Title:  A pair and parlors
Description:  This Montauk train has a parlor car ahead of the coaches, but the two GP 38s will make easy work of the run out east.
Photo Date:  5/7/1990  Upload Date: 1/10/2016 2:51:33 AM
Location:  Mineola, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 263(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  587   Comments: 0
LI 256 ready to depart the station
Title:  LI 256 ready to depart the station
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/1993  Upload Date: 8/8/2019 3:12:46 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  366   Comments: 1
Ready for the Sunday Afternoon run to NYC
Title:  Ready for the Sunday Afternoon run to NYC
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/1993  Upload Date: 8/8/2019 3:13:15 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  LI 262(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  590   Comments: 1
LI 256 and 262
Title:  LI 256 and 262
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/1993  Upload Date: 8/8/2019 3:13:29 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2) LI 262(GP38-2)
Views:  536   Comments: 1
LI 263
Title:  LI 263
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/17/1993  Upload Date: 8/8/2019 3:14:29 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 263(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  463   Comments: 1
Making Up The Trains For The Sunday Rush From The Hamptons to NYC
Title:  Making Up The Trains For The Sunday Rush From The Hamptons to NYC
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/20/1995  Upload Date: 10/1/2012 9:16:22 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 263(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  776   Comments: 0
Summer at Montauk
Title:  Summer at Montauk
Description:  Making up the Sunday Cannonball
Photo Date:  7/23/1995  Upload Date: 3/28/2012 10:46:56 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Yard,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  693   Comments: 0
LIRR 256
Title:  LIRR 256
Description:  LIRR 256
Photo Date:  7/23/1995  Upload Date: 10/2/2012 5:44:22 PM
Location:  Montauk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Yard,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  514   Comments: 0
LI City
Title:  LI City
Description:  In this pic we can see the C1 Bi-levels, the converted 3100 and the cab of a GP-38
Photo Date:  10/7/1995  Upload Date: 3/17/2012 8:28:37 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  526   Comments: 0
The 265 ready for the Evening Rush
Title:  The 265 ready for the Evening Rush
Description:  The 265 ready for the Evening Rush
Photo Date:  10/7/1995  Upload Date: 10/1/2012 9:20:06 PM
Location:  Long Island City, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  573   Comments: 0
LIRR 256 & 257
Title:  LIRR 256 & 257
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/1996  Upload Date: 8/11/2017 1:40:42 AM
Location:  Port Jefferson, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2) LI 257(GP38-2)
Views:  647   Comments: 0
olumbia Street Crossing
Title:  olumbia Street Crossing
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/1996  Upload Date: 8/11/2017 1:43:55 AM
Location:  Port Jefferson, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2) LI 257(GP38-2)
Views:  605   Comments: 0
256
Title:  256
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/1996  Upload Date: 8/11/2017 1:50:57 AM
Location:  Port Jefferson, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  352   Comments: 0
256 & 257
Title:  256 & 257
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/1996  Upload Date: 8/11/2017 1:53:05 AM
Location:  Port Jefferson, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2) LI 257(GP38-2)
Views:  588   Comments: 0
256
Title:  256
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/1996  Upload Date: 8/11/2017 1:55:33 AM
Location:  Port Jefferson, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  558   Comments: 0
LI 256
Title:  LI 256
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/20/1997  Upload Date: 8/12/2017 1:57:42 AM
Location:  Morris Park, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2) LI 274(GP38-2)
Views:  655   Comments: 0
West Lay Up Yard
Title:  West Lay Up Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/29/1998  Upload Date: 8/18/2013 11:29:18 PM
Location:  Port Jefferson, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LI 302(FL9) LI 253(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  862   Comments: 0
These GP38s were shot just prior to thier retirement
Title:  These GP38s were shot just prior to thier retirement
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/6/1999  Upload Date: 10/2/2017 2:58:39 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  LI 251(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2) LI 265(GP38-2)
Views:  762   Comments: 0
LI 265
Title:  LI 265
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/6/1999  Upload Date: 10/2/2017 3:07:45 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 265(GP38-2) LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  641   Comments: 0
LI 256
Title:  LI 256
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/6/1999  Upload Date: 10/2/2017 3:27:43 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  351   Comments: 0
It was a cold dark winters day in Speonk
Title:  It was a cold dark winters day in Speonk
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/6/1999  Upload Date: 10/2/2017 3:46:57 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  409   Comments: 0
256 out in the cold
Title:  256 out in the cold
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/6/1999  Upload Date: 10/2/2017 6:32:19 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  275   Comments: 0
Laying over for the weekend
Title:  Laying over for the weekend
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/6/1999  Upload Date: 10/2/2017 6:35:47 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2) LI 265(GP38-2)
Views:  512   Comments: 0
Rear shot of 256
Title:  Rear shot of 256
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/6/1999  Upload Date: 10/2/2017 6:37:32 PM
Location:  Speonk, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Roster,Winter,Yard
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  229   Comments: 1
Clear signal at PD tower
Title:  Clear signal at PD tower
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/21/1999  Upload Date: 9/30/2017 9:23:30 PM
Location:  Patchogue, NY
Author:  Richard Gorddard
Categories:  Night,Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
EMD GP38-2
Title:  EMD GP38-2
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/22/2009  Upload Date: 6/22/2009 5:27:50 PM
Location:  Queens (Borough), NY
Author:  Bobby J. Kasza
Categories: 
Locomotives:  LI 256(GP38-2)
Views:  821   Comments: 0

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