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The center trestle's swing span is still in place and is locked open to facilitate boat traffic. The bascule span on the northernmost trestle was removed and reinstalled in 1988 over Reynolds Creek in Long Beach, New York on the Long Island Rail Road's Long Beach Branch, where it is still in service. [2]
It is publicly owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which refers to it as MTA Long Island Rail Road. In 2023, the system had a ridership of 75,186,900, or about 276,800 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024. The LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text Long Island Rail Road, and
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".
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. [1] It was once the largest commuter rail in the U.S. but following three successive years of declines was replaced at the close of 2012 by the Metro-North railroad that ...
The Main Line is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in 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.
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 ...
Long Island Rail Road Station, Jamaica, ca. 1872–1887. Collodion silver glass wet plate negative. Brooklyn Museum George Bradford Brainerd (American, 1845–1887). Railroad Station, Islip, Long Island, ca. 1872–1887. Collodion silver glass wet plate negative. Brooklyn Museum
The first electric train to serve Lakeview ran that October 19th, bound for Mineola from Penn Station. [7] In late 1955 and early 1956, the Long Island Rail Road proposed closing this station and the adjacent Hempstead Gardens station, and replacing them with a new station at a point roughly halfway between the two.