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Current branches. A map of diesel territory on the Long Island Rail Road. The Main Line runs from Long Island City east to Greenport. It is electrified west of the Ronkonkoma station; limited diesel train service runs from this point to the Yaphank, Riverhead, or Greenport stations.
MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) (legal name, no longer used publicly: The Long Island Rail Road Company) MTA Metro-North Railroad (MNR) (legal name, no longer used publicly: Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company) MTA Grand Central Madison Concourse (GCMC)
This list contains all stations currently open on the Long Island Rail Road, including seasonal-use stations. Lines with colored boxes indicate branches which serve the station, while lines in parentheses indicate the physical line the station is located on, if applicable.
An 1882 map of the Long Island Rail Road. Hoping to build a line from Bay Ridge through East New York to Valley Stream, in 1870, the New York and Hempstead Railroad was incorporated. The line was leased by the South Side Railroad after two years of grading and excavating, but because of the financial panic of 1873 the project was drawn to a halt.
Map of the entire Metro-North Railroad system. This schematic is not to scale. Metro-North Railroad ( reporting mark MNCW ), [8] trading as MTA Metro-North Railroad, is a suburban commuter rail service operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a public authority of 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.
To accommodate a projected increase in Long Island Rail Road ridership following completion of the East Side Access project to Grand Central Terminal, and to expand local and reverse-peak service, a third track was built on the Main Line between Floral Park and Hicksville.
Long Island Rail Road system map. The Long Island Rail Road is the second busiest commuter railroad system in North America, carrying in 2012 an average of 282,400 customers each weekday on 728 daily trains.
Long Beach Branch. Route map: Long Beach Branch. Long Beach Branch train #853 departs Lynbrook en route to Penn Station. Overview. Status. Operational. Owner. Long Island Rail Road Company [1]
Description. The Central Branch connects the Main Line ( Ronkonkoma Branch service) at Beth Interlocking southeast of the Bethpage station with the Montauk Branch ( Babylon Branch service) at Belmont Junction west of the Babylon station.