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  2. History of the Long Island Rail Road - Wikipedia

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    The Long Island Rail Road is a railroad owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the U.S. state of New York. It is the oldest United States railroad still operating under its original name and charter. [1] It consolidated several other companies in the late 19th century. The Pennsylvania Railroad owned the Long Island Rail Road for ...

  3. Long Island Rail Road - Wikipedia

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    The LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and appears on the sides of trains. The LIRR is one of two commuter rail systems owned by the MTA, the other being the Metro-North Railroad in the northern suburbs of the New York area. Established in 1834 (the first section between the Brooklyn waterfront and ...

  4. File:LIRR logo.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:LIRR logo.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 200 × 37 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 59 pixels | 640 × 118 pixels | 1,024 × 189 pixels | 1,280 × 237 pixels | 2,560 × 474 pixels. Original file ‎ (SVG file, nominally 200 × 37 pixels, file size: 7 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its is ...

  5. Lynbrook Celebrates Its LIRR Roots With New Markers - Patch

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    It would be impossible to talk about Lynbrook's history and leave out the Long Island Railroad. In fact, it was the LIRR that gave the village its name afterall. In 1984, Lynbrook was just a ...

  6. Lindenhurst station - Wikipedia

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    Lindenhurst station is typical of the elevated Babylon Branch stations that were rebuilt during the mid-to-late 20th Century. It was originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island on October 28, 1867, as "Wellwood" It was renamed "Breslau" in 1870, after developers Thomas Welwood and Charles S. Schleier renamed the community after their native Breslau in German Empire, then was ...

  7. List of Long Island Rail Road stations - Wikipedia

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    List of Long Island Rail Road stations. The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is a commuter railway system serving all four counties of Long Island, with two stations in the Manhattan borough of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. Its operator is the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York. Serving 301,763 passengers per day as of ...

  8. NYC Area's 3 Commuter Railroads Should Merge, Report Says - Patch

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    Modeled after similar systems in Paris and London, the T-REX would comprise three rail systems that are among the busiest in the nation. The Metro-North, LIRR and NJ Transit together carry 265 ...

  9. New York Penn Station - Wikipedia

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    at 34th Street–Penn Station. Pennsylvania Station (also known as New York Penn Station or simply Penn Station) is the main intercity railroad station in New York City and the busiest transportation facility in the Western Hemisphere, serving more than 600,000 passengers per weekday as of 2019. [5][6][a] The station is located beneath Madison ...