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The LIRR center will help give residents information and a chance to voice concerns regarding the final stages of a plan to construct an extension of tracks at the train yard in the center of town ...
Elmont–UBS Arena (also known as Elmont) is a Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) station in Elmont and Bellerose Terrace, New York, just east of the Nassau County border with the New York City borough of Queens.
HUNTINGTON STATION, NY — The Town of Huntington cut the ribbon on the newly-replaced elevator on the north side of the Huntington Station LIRR station on Friday, the town announced.
A Far Rockaway-bound train departs Cedarhurst station.. Cedarhurst station was originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island in July 1869. Three years later, the rival Long Island Rail Road also built its own "Ocean Point Depot" in July 1872 for the former Cedarhurst Cut-Off just northeast of Cedarhurst station [2] After the LIRR acquired the South Side Railroad, both the Ocean ...
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.
The Ronkonkoma Branch is a rail service operated by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the U.S. state of New York.On LIRR maps and printed schedules, the "Ronkonkoma Branch" includes trains running along the railroad's Main Line from Hicksville (where the Port Jefferson Branch leaves the Main Line) to Ronkonkoma, and between Ronkonkoma and the Main Line's eastern terminus at Greenport.
The line from Hicksville to Syosset was chartered in 1853 as the Hicksville and Syosset Railroad and opened in 1854. The LIRR later planned to extend to Cold Spring Harbor, but Oliver Charlick, the LIRR's president, disagreed over the station's location, so Charlick abandoned the grade and relocated the extension south of Cold Spring, refusing to add a station stop near Cold Spring for years.
Nassau Tower was the Long Island Rail Road's interlocking and signal tower for NASSAU Interlocking at Mineola Junction, just east of the Mineola station, from 1923 until 2020.