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The C1 is a type of bilevel commuter passenger car built by the Tokyu Car Corporation for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). Tokyu built ten cars in 1990–1991 as a precursor to the larger C3 order, which would be built by Kawasaki in the late 1990s. The cars were designed by Comeng, one of the last projects that the firm undertook before ...
Long Island Rail Road Penn Central Conrail Metro-North Railroad: Specifications; Car body construction: Stainless Steel, with fiberglass end caps on the operating ends: Train length: 170 ft (51.82 m) - 1,020 ft (310.90 m) Car length: 85 ft (25.91 m) Width: 10 ft 6 in (3,200 mm) Height: 13 ft (3,962 mm) excluding rooftop horns: Floor height: 4 ...
It acquired 770 M1 cars built by Budd and General Electric from 1968 to 1974, and 174 M3 cars, built in 1985 and 1986, also by the Budd Company. [6] [7] By the late-1990s the LIRR diesel fleet consisted of 28 EMD GP38-2 and 23 MP15AC diesel-electric locomotives, along with approximately 223 passenger cars, mostly former electric multiple units. [6]
The following streetcar lines once operated on Long Island, New York in Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties. Many of these systems were owned by the Long Island Consolidated Electrical Companies, a holding company partially owned by the Long Island Rail Road, and Interborough Rapid Transit Company between March 30, 1905 and July 18, 1935.
It is projected to take 40,000 trucks off Long Island roads and transfer 1 million tons of freight a year by 2016. [12] The terminal includes three tracks for construction material, such as lumber, asphalt and concrete, and six tracks for merchandise, such as flour and biodiesel. [13] Plans to expand the yard have generated community opposition ...
On October 8, 2016, an M7 train on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Jefferson Branch sideswiped a work train near the New Hyde Park station. Multiple cars – 7033, 7034, and 7044 – were seriously damaged and eventually scrapped. Car 7043, which was 7044's mate, was initially stored but was later remated with car 7554 after that car lost its ...
Electrical & natural gas utility [1] in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties, on Long Island, New York [1] The Long Island Lighting Company , or LILCO ("lil-co"), was an electrical power company and natural gas utility for Long Island , New York , serving 2.7 million people in Nassau , Suffolk and Queens counties, [ 1 ] from 1911 until 1998.
1.38 CR 108: Rabro Drive in Hauppauge: NY 111: Serves Hauppauge Industrial Park and Suffolk County government buildings [3] CR 7: 1.75 2.82 CR 13: Wicks Road in Brentwood: CR 67: CR 8: I-495 / CR 101 in Yaphank: Yaphank Bypass CR 21 in Middle Island: Unbuilt route CR 9: 4.65 7.48 NY 25A in Huntington: Greenlawn Road & Cuba Hill Road CR 10 in Elwood