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The Cannonball is a seasonal named train operated by the Long Island Rail Road between Penn Station in New York City and Montauk on the east end of Long Island, New York.The train operates weekly between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend, operating eastbound on Fridays and westbound on Sundays, with westbound service also being offered through Columbus Day weekend.
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber said the service will add 271 LIRR trains per day, increasing LIRR systemwide service to 936 trains per day, with 296 heading to or from Grand Central Madison.
Long Island Rail Road Station, Jamaica, ca. 1872–1887. Collodion silver glass wet plate negative. Brooklyn Museum George Bradford Brainerd (American, 1845–1887). Railroad Station, Islip, Long Island, ca. 1872–1887. Collodion silver glass wet plate negative. Brooklyn Museum
Mikayla Abreu, 14, was last seen on Saturday boarding a westbound Long Island Rail Road train at the Wyandanch train station, located on Straight Path, at about 10:30 a.m., police said.
The South Side Railroad of Long Island was a railroad company in the U.S. state of New York.Chartered in 1860 and first opened in 1867 as a competitor to the Long Island Rail Road, it was reorganized in 1874 as the Southern Railroad of Long Island and leased in 1876 to the LIRR.
During the mid-1870s, the station and the rest of the line merged with the Central Railroad of Long Island to form the Flushing, North Shore and Central Railroad, and then became part of the Port Washington Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, which also used the station as the eastern terminus of the White Line between 1873 and 1876. Shortly ...
The current station building was built in 1909 and was renovated by the Long Island Rail Road for its centennial. [ 5 ] On October 19, 1970, a project to electrify the Port Jefferson Branch up to Huntington was completed, following the completion of a project to install high-level platforms at the station. [ 7 ]
In 1940, the Long Island Rail Road remodeled the exterior of the station house, covering the brick façade with stucco, which resulted in public outcry. [ 5 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Roslyn Estates resident Christopher Morley , who frequently used the station, called for the Long Island Rail Road remove the stucco and re-expose the brickwork.