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Holban Yard is a railroad freight yard for the Long Island Rail Road at Rockaway Junction near the current site of the Hillside Facility. It was built in 1906 and was named for the two communities of Hollis and St. Albans which bordered the yard along the Cedarhurst Cut-Off at the time of construction. [4]
In mid-2012, the MTA issued a joint procurement request for the LIRR and Metro-North for a total of up to 676 M9 railcars, set for delivery between 2016 and 2020. [9] On September 18, 2013, Kawasaki Heavy Industries was awarded a nearly $1.8 billion contract for the order, comprising a base order of 92 cars for the LIRR (costing $355 million) with options for an additional 584 cars (304 for ...
The number of LIRR employees who made more than $250,000 increased by nearly 50 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to payroll data found on the Empire Center for Public Policy's transparency ...
NEW YORK CITY — A Long Island Rail Road worker claimed 10 hours a day of overtime, earning $344,000 extra pay, while he actually went bowling.
Crime & Safety LI Couple Charged With Harassment After LIRR Incident: MTA A family alleges they were racially harassed on a train en route to a basketball game, News 12 is reporting.
In late 1999, a contract was awarded to Bombardier for 836 LIRR M7s. Delivery began in early 2002, and test trains for the LIRR M7 began on the Ronkonkoma Branch. After several successful tests, LIRR M7 revenue service began on the Long Beach Branch on October 30, 2002, and Metro-North's first M7A started scheduled service in April 2004.
[20] [21] Metro-North also planned to overhaul their M3A units, [22] but later stated that they "are working with LIRR to procure new M9A cars in the next Capital Program to provide additional capacity and replace M3s." [23] For the MTA's 2025-2029 plan, the MTA announced a plan to purchase 160 M9A cars to replace the fleet of M3s. [24]
Traffic & Transit 59 LIRR Employees Made Over $250K In 2019: New Payroll Data Ten LIRR workers made at least $300,000 in 2019, according to the payroll data from the Empire Center for Public Policy.