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The LIRR's history stretches back to the Brooklyn and Jamaica Rail Road, incorporated on April 25, 1832 to build a ten-mile line from the East River in Brooklyn through the communities of Brooklyn, Bedford, and East New York to Jamaica.
The Long Island Rail Road Company was chartered in 1834 to provide a daily service between New York City and Boston via a ferry connection between its Greenport, New York, terminal on Long Island's North Fork and Stonington, Connecticut.
Commuter rail: System: Long Island Rail Road: Services: City Terminal Zone: Operator(s) MTA Long Island Rail Road: Ridership: 162,000 daily (projected) History; Commenced: September 2007 () Opened: January 25, 2023 () Technical; Line length: 2 mi (3.2 km) Track length: 6.1 mi (9.8 km) Number of tracks: 2–8: Character: Underground: Track gauge
History. When the LIRR began operations in 1836, it leased the newly opened Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad, including its two duplicate steam locomotives, Ariel and Post Boy, both built by Matthias W. Baldwin. (Ariel was Baldwin's 19th engine, built in 1835.)
List of presidents and trustees of the Long Island Rail Road. The LIRR was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad from 1928 to 1949. The people from Smucker and Delatour through Wyer were trustees rather than presidents, as the LIRR was in Chapter 77 bankruptcy .
On September 8, 1910, the line between Long Island City and Jamaica was electrified, and service to Pennsylvania Station was inaugurated. Initially, service consisted of 101 trains in each direction to the Hempstead, Far Rockaway and Long Beach branches.
Also known as Central Junction. Shared by the Main Line of the Flushing and North Side Railroad (now the Port Washington Branch of the LIRR), and Central RR of Long Island. Opened July 1873, and abandoned April 30, 1879. Located west of Flushing–Main Street station near Whitestone Expressway.
The Cannonball runs express through Bay Shore to the Hamptons along the Montauk Branch. The Montauk Branch is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. The line runs the length of Long Island, 115 miles (185 km) from Long Island City to Montauk.
History; Opened: November 15, 1869; 154 years ago () (F&NS) Closed: 1914; 110 years ago () Rebuilt: 1915; 109 years ago (), 1999; 25 years ago () Electrified: June 16, 1910; 113 years ago () 750 V third rail: Passengers; 2012—2014: 7,172: Rank: 15 of 126: Services
Farmingdale is a historic railroad station in Farmingdale, New York, along the Main Line ( Ronkonkoma Branch) of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located just east of Secatogue Avenue, on South Front Street and Atlantic Avenue. The station has two platforms, with an underground pedestrian walkway connecting them.