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Long before modern piggyback services, the LIRR began carrying farm wagons aboard flatcars in 1885. [ 2 ] In the early 20th century, the LIRR was a testing ground for the Pennsylvania Railroad 's electrification , including Phoebe , its first electric ( AA1 ), and was the first company to extensively electrify its primary lines.
The Long Island Rail Road (reporting mark LI), or LIRR, is a railroad in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island. The railroad currently operates a public commuter rail service, with its freight operations contracted to the New York and Atlantic Railway.
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 ...
From the 1970s until 1999, the Long Island Rail Road used 20 FA units converted into "power packs". The traction motors were removed, and original prime movers replaced with 600 horsepower (450 kW) engines/generators solely for supplying Head-end power (HEP). The engineer's control stand was left intact, allowing the engines to be used in push ...
The Long Island Rail Road is a railroad owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the U.S. state of New York.It is the oldest United States railroad still operating under its original name and charter. [1]
Serving 301,763 passengers per day as of 2007 [1] and 88.5 million riders for the year of 2008, [2] it is the busiest commuter railroad in the United States. 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 ...
The Long Island Rail Road scrapped most of its DD1s from 1949 to 1951, and only two pairs remained in 1962. By 1978, Nos. 3936 and 3937 comprised the last existing DD1 and were donated to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania's successor Penn Central , as part of a collection with twelve other ...
In February 1965, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller suggested that the New York State Legislature create an authority to purchase, operate, and modernize the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). The LIRR, then a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), had been operating under bankruptcy protection since 1949.