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The Morris Park Facility is a maintenance facility of the Long Island Rail Road in Queens, New York City. It includes two employee-only side platforms on the Atlantic Branch named Boland's Landing. [1] Two wooden platforms, each two cars long, exist on the two-track line, with a flashlight for workers to signal trains to stop. [2]
The Railroad Museum of Long Island is a railway museum based on the North Fork of Long Island, New York, U.S. It has two locations: the main location in Riverhead, and a satellite location in Greenport, west of the North Ferry to Shelter Island. Both facilities contain active model railroad displays and gift shops. [1]
In 2008, more than 90 percent of Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) retirees were receiving occupational disability payments. [8] A former LIRR pension department manager was arrested and charged with official misconduct for allegedly "taking money to help railroad employees find a doctor and fill out paperwork for federal disability payments". [9]
The Main Line is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.It begins as a two-track line at Long Island City station in Long Island City, Queens, and runs along the middle of Long Island about 95 miles (153 km) to Greenport station in Greenport, Suffolk County.
Gibson is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Far Rockaway Branch in the Gibson section of Valley Stream, Nassau County, New York. The station is at Gibson Boulevard and Munro Boulevard. It opened in May 1928. The station has two high-level side platforms, each 10 cars long.
Long Island Rail Road: Atlantic Terminal shuttle Employee-only station to serve the Morris Park Facility: Berlin: Berlin Junction: Dunton: 8.9 (14.3) [14] 1869 1939 Originally named Berlin, then Van Wyck Avenue 3 Jamaica, Queens Jamaica: 9.3 (15.0) [1] 1836 Long Island Rail Road: Atlantic Terminal shuttle, Babylon, Hempstead, Montauk, Oyster ...
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]
SPEONK, NY — A former Long Island Rail Road employee who was accused of falsifying an inspection report before a 2019 derailment in Speonk —that brought service to a screeching halt on ...