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The grant of a concession in 1997 to a private short haul railroad, the New York and Atlantic Railway, to handle all rail freight on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)'s rights-of-way. The rebuilding of the 65th Street Yard , a rail yard at the Brooklyn shore with two car float bridges that allow rail cars to be loaded and unloaded onto barges ...
With 324 passenger route-miles, [3] it spans Long Island from Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn to Montauk station at the tip of the southern fork. Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan is the actual westernmost station of the Long Island Rail Road and its busiest station. The system currently has 126 stations on eleven rail lines called "branches".
Long Island City, Queens: Long Island City: New York City Subway: 7 and <7> (at Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue) MTA Bus: Q103 NYC Ferry: East River Hunterspoint Avenue: New York City Subway: 7 and <7> (at Hunters Point Avenue), G (at 21st Street) New York City Bus: B62 MTA Bus: Q67 Woodside, Queens: Woodside: Long Island Rail Road: Port ...
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. Trains using the East River Tunnels from Penn Station join the line at Sunnyside ...
The Port Washington Branch is an electrified, mostly double-tracked rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.It branches north from the Main Line at the former Winfield Junction station, just east of the Woodside station in the New York City borough of Queens, and runs roughly parallel to Northern Boulevard past Mets-Willets Point ...
Grand Central Madison is a commuter rail terminal for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the Midtown East neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.Part of the East Side Access project, the new terminal started construction in 2008 and opened on January 25, 2023. [5]
A promise to build a new LIRR station in Sunnyside to provide access to Penn Station was quietly abandoned by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration in 2016 as the East Side Access project to ...
The Queens Plaza station is an express station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway.Located under the eastern edge of Queens Plaza at the large Queens Plaza interchange, it is served by the E train at all times, by the R train at all times except late nights, and by the M train on weekdays during the day.