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Montauk is the terminus of the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, as well as the easternmost railroad station on Long Island and in New York state. The station is located on Edgemere Street ( Suffolk County Route 49 ) and Fort Pond Road west of Montauk Harbor, New York .
However, in LIRR maps and schedules for public use, the term Montauk Branch refers to the line east of Babylon; service from Jamaica to Babylon is covered by separate Babylon Branch schedules, while the line west of Jamaica is currently unused for passenger service.
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.
The Montauk Branch runs from Long Island City east to the Montauk station, with junctions with the Main Line at Long Island City and Jamaica. It is electrified from Jamaica east to Babylon.
MONTAUK, NY — A fire reported at the Montauk Long Island Rail Road station Sunday night led to the cancellation of one train for those heading west Sunday night, the MTA LIRR said.
The station is the first entirely new LIRR station built in over 40 years and is intended to primarily service the recently opened UBS Arena and the Elmont neighborhood. The station was opened in three phases.
At the same time, the MTA introduced the Cannonball West, a Sunday evening train between Montauk and Penn Station that would run nonstop between Westhampton and Jamaica and also offer Hamptons Reserve service, though on 2024 timetables, only the eastbound train is named the Cannonball.
The Central Branch is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the U.S. state of New York, extending from just east of Bethpage station to just west of Babylon station.
The Bay Ridge Branch is a rail line owned by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and operated by the New York and Atlantic Railway in New York City. It is the longest freight-only line of the LIRR, connecting the Montauk Branch and CSX Transportation 's Fremont Secondary (to the Hell Gate Bridge) at Glendale, Queens with the Upper New York Bay at ...
As of June 2022, 132 M9s have been delivered to the LIRR, and their procurement was nearly three years behind schedule. In summer 2017, the LIRR leased 8 single-level coaches from MARC in order to free up their C3 coaches for the Montauk Branch.