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In 1997 and 1998, the LIRR received 134 double-decker C3 passenger cars from Kawasaki, including 23 cab control cars, and 46 General Motors Electro-Motive Division diesel-electric locomotives (23 diesel DE30ACs and 23 dual-mode DM30ACs) to pull them, allowing trains from non-electric territory to access Penn Station for the first time in many ...
The Forest Hills station is a station on the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), located in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens in New York City.It is lightly used compared to other stations in the city, with 2,408 daily riders in 2023; [3] many residents opt for the subway because of its more frequent service, cheaper fares, and direct express trains to Midtown Manhattan.
The EMD DE30AC and DM30AC are a class of 46 locomotives built between 1997–1999 by Electro-Motive Division in the Super Steel Plant in Schenectady, New York, for the Long Island Rail Road of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York. Originally divided equally between the two types, the fleet currently consists of 24 DE30AC ...
The Interborough Express (IBX) is a proposed 14-mile (23 km) 24/7 light rail line in New York City.As proposed, the line would operate on its own separate tracks within the existing right-of-way from the Bay Ridge Branch and Fremont Secondary to connect Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and Jackson Heights, Queens.
The line from Hicksville to Syosset was chartered in 1853 as the Hicksville and Syosset Railroad and opened in 1854. The LIRR later planned to extend to Cold Spring Harbor, but Oliver Charlick, the LIRR's president, disagreed over the station's location, so Charlick abandoned the grade and relocated the extension south of Cold Spring, refusing to add a station stop near Cold Spring for years.
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.
Number of lines: 19 commuter rail routes 8 Metro-North routes; 11 LIRR routes; 26 rapid transit routes 25 subway routes; 1 Staten Island Railway route; 325 bus routes 234 local routes; 71 express routes; 20 Select Bus Service routes; Daily ridership: 8.6 million (2017 weekday average) [1] Annual ridership: 2.658 billion (2017) [1] Key people
The station has gone by a number of different names. It opened as Lefferts Avenue . [ 2 ] A 1924 system map portrayed the station as "Lefferts Avenue", with "119th St." shown below the name in parentheses, and in a smaller print. [ 7 ]