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  2. Montauk Branch - Wikipedia

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    The population center then moved two miles (3 km) to the south, away from the station. In 1953, amid bankruptcy, the LIRR sought to abandon the Montauk branch east of Patchogue and operate bus service in its place. It cited low, predominantly non-commuter ridership and proximity to the Main Line, and potential savings of $450,000 per year. [28]

  3. Commuter rail in North America - Wikipedia

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    The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is the only commuter railroad that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in North America. A GO Transit Bombardier cab car at Toronto's Scarborough Station. Almost all commuter rail services in North America are operated by government entities or quasi-governmental organizations.

  4. Long Island Rail Road rolling stock - Wikipedia

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    The first M9s entered revenue service on September 11, 2019. [16] As of June 2022, 132 M9s have been delivered to the LIRR, and their procurement was nearly three years behind schedule. [17] [18] In summer 2017, the LIRR leased 8 single-level coaches from MARC in order to free up their C3 coaches for the Montauk Branch.

  5. Service (business) - Wikipedia

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    Business services are a recognisable subset of economic services, and share their characteristics. The essential difference is that businesses are concerned about the building of service systems in order to deliver value to their customers and to act in the roles of service provider and service consumer.

  6. M9 (railcar) - Wikipedia

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    In mid-2012, the MTA issued a joint procurement request for the LIRR and Metro-North for a total of up to 676 M9 railcars, set for delivery between 2016 and 2020. [9] On September 18, 2013, Kawasaki Heavy Industries was awarded a nearly $1.8 billion contract for the order, comprising a base order of 92 cars for the LIRR (costing $355 million) with options for an additional 584 cars (304 for ...

  7. Main Line (Long Island Rail Road) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. - Wikipedia

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    Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928), is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff.The case was heard by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest state court in New York; its opinion was written by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo, a leading figure in the development of American common law and later a United ...

  9. California Department of Health Care Services - Wikipedia

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    The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is a department within the California Health and Human Services Agency that finances and administers a number of individual health care service delivery programs, including Medi-Cal, which provides health care services to low-income people.