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The Port Jefferson Branch is a rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. The branch splits from the Main Line just east of Hicksville and runs northeast and east to Port Jefferson. Several stations on the Main Line west of Hicksville are served primarily by trains bound to/from the Port ...
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.
Pinelawn Cemetery station remained in service for a business located within the cemetery, until it was destroyed by a fire in April 1928. [3] The walls of the station were still standing in 1960, and the arched entrance to this station remained intact until 1985, [5] when the Long Island Rail Road was beginning its electrification of the Main ...
As one of the busiest stations on the LIRR, Huntington is a prime target for transit-oriented development.Avalon Huntington Station, which occupies a nearby lot southeast of the station and contains several hundred residential units in a walkable, mixed-use development, [10] was opened in 2014.
On February 17, 1950, two Long Island Rail Road trains collided on the Montauk Branch just west of Rockville Centre station in Rockville Centre, New York, killing 32 and injuring several dozen more. At the time, it was the deadliest collision in the railroad's history until the Kew Gardens train crash later that year.
The Rockville Centre station is a station along the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is officially at North Village Avenue and Front Street north of Sunrise Highway in Rockville Centre, New York, but the station property spreads west to North Center Avenue and east to North Park Avenue. Parking is available throughout the Village ...
[18] [19] However, due to delays in the M9 contract, the Long Island Rail Road is keeping around 100 M3 cars in service; the cars are expected to be rebuilt to last through at least 2024. [ 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 ...
East Side Access (ESA) is a public works project in New York City that extended the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) two miles from its Main Line in Queens to the new Grand Central Madison station under Grand Central Terminal on Manhattan's East Side.