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Suffolk Downs was a seasonal flag stop along the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road and was first built in 1907. [1] The depot was purchased by an LIRR employee and was moved to Peconic Bay at an undisclosed location on February 6, 1923 and the station stop itself closed around 1927. [2]
An organized ring of 15 Long Island Rail Road employees and two others were indicted Friday after conspiring to steal more than $250,000 worth of copper wire belonging to the LIRR—some of which ...
The low numbers at Laurel forced the railroad to take action. As early as 1925, the LIRR petitioned the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) to allow for the discontinuation of its Laurel station agent, but the PSC denied the request on July 14, 1925. The LIRR finally won their request in May 1938 and was allowed to close the Laurel ...
Obituaries Obituary: Raymond Kenny Jr., Of Lindenhurst, Dies of Coronavirus The 68-year-old former acting president for the LIRR passed away over the weekend from complications due to the virus.
A LIRR employee and Long Beach resident, Max, who declined to reveal his last name, said the station is a magnet for people who are either down on their luck or disabled, and just hang around or ...
The first phase of what is now known as the Oyster Bay Branch opened on January 23, 1865. The line was built by the Glen Cove Branch Rail Road, a subsidiary of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), which was incorporated on December 3, 1858. [5] The line was built as a branch of the LIRR's Main Line from Mineola, and extended to Glen Head. [6]
St. Albans is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Montauk Branch in St. Albans, Queens, New York on the southwest corner of Linden Boulevard and Montauk Place, although the segment of Montauk Place that once intersected with Linden Boulevard has been abandoned and fenced off.
The LIRR determined Conklin falsely indicated he inspected a broken rail bond about a month earlier on April 26, prosecutors said. The broken rail bond caused the derailment, prosecutors said.