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  Long Island Railroad - LIRR schedule, times, information, delays Long Island, NY
The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR is a railroad that serves the length of Long Island, New York.
The LIRR thus built its original tracks running straight down the middle of the island, which was largely uninhabited at the time, rather than serving the existing Long Island communities.
The Long Island Rail Road built the route from Jamaica Station via Woodside Station to the Long Island City terminal where ferry connections to Manhattan could be made.
www.longisland.com /lirr.php   (1301 words)

  
  Long Island Rail Road
The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR is a railroad that serves the length of Long Island, New York.
The LIRR has two major terminals and two minor terminals in New York City - The major terminals are located at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, and the Atlantic Terminal located at the intersections of Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.
In 1876, the LIRR was bought out by the owner of one of the competing roads, but the Long Island Rail Road name was used for the merged company.
en.mcfly.org /Long_Island_Rail_Road   (1809 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Being an island, the population of Long Island was concentrated along it's coasts, not it's interior.
It was the construction of Pennsylvania Station and the tunnels under the Hudson and East Rivers, that brought electrification to the Long Island Rail Road.
The Long Island Rail Road - The Route of the Dashing Commuter.
www.rmli.org /Pages/LIRR_History_Detail.htm   (2502 words)

  
 Long Island Rail Road History Page
The major sources of the historical information on this website are: i) Vincent Seyfried's seven volume "The Long Island Rail Road - A Comprehensive History" (Mr.
These are some of the various logos used by the LIRR though the years.
This Long Island Web Ring site owned by Robert W.
www.lirrhistory.com   (259 words)

  
 Long Island Rail Road at AllExperts
The LIRR built the route from Jamaica Station via Woodside Station to the Long Island City terminal, where ferry connections to Manhattan could be made.
LIRR still uses a small portion of this line, east of Hempstead, as a place to store equipment, and each year the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus train uses this Garden City Secondary to reach the Nassau Coliseum.
Frequent fires and maintenance problems led the LIRR to abandon the Queens portion of the route, which was acquired by the city to become the IND Rockaway Line, providing service on the train and Rockaway Park Shuttle.
en.allexperts.com /e/l/lo/long_island_rail_road.htm   (4681 words)

  
 A Picture History of Kew Gardens, NY - The 1950 LIRR Crash at Kew Gardens/Richmond Hill
Unlike the Long Island Rail Road which was heavily taxed in all respects, those authorities paid no tax whatsoever on their real estate, assets or income.
All of that left the Long Island Rail Road at a permanent competitive disadvantage, and every effort to level the playing field by providing badly needed subsidies for the Railroad was defeated in the State Legislature.
On the date of the collision, the Long Island Rail Road had already filed for bankruptcy reorganization and was operating under the supervision of two bankruptcy trustees.
www.oldkewgardens.com /ss-lirr-0650.html   (1984 words)

  
 ESRI News -- ArcNews Spring 2003 Issue -- Long Island Rail Road Rolls With GIS
Barreling down the tracks for 167 years, trains from the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) carry an average of 290,000 passengers each weekday throughout the Long Island-to-Manhattan corridor.
Road charts are line diagrams of the tracks showing spatial data, but they were in hard copy format and not to scale.
As part of LIRR's ongoing maintenance program, a specially equipped car carrying an assortment of sophisticated measuring devices traverses the railroad tracks collecting data and alerting personnel if problems are observed.
www.esri.com /news/arcnews/spring03articles/long-island-rail.html   (1303 words)

  
 Parsons Project Profile--Long Island Rail Road East Side Access Project
Through the LIRR East Side Access Project, LIRR is realizing its 30-year-old goal to provide passenger service to Grand Central Terminal, which will improve access between the Long Island transportation corridor (Suffolk, Nassau, and Queens counties) and the east side of Manhattan.
LIRR is the busiest railroad in North America.
The new project infrastructure connects to the LIRR in Queens at Harold Interlocking, the busiest commuter rail switching location in the country.
www.parsons.com /about/press_rm/potm/08-2001/index.html   (661 words)

  
 Investigating the Gap - Newsday.com
Passengers on the Long Island Rail Road run a higher risk of injury than those on other rail divisions in the metropolitan area -- Metro-North, NJ Transit and the New York City subways -- accident data for each of the lines show.
The Long Island Rail Road knew for more than three decades that the gap between trains and platforms posed a serious threat to passengers, injuring hundreds of riders in terrifying falls.
The Long Island Rail Road in recent months has realigned tracks, shifted platforms and tacked wooden boards to platform edges -- all in a concentrated effort to shrink the dangerous spaces between trains and platforms.
www.newsday.com /news/specials/nyg-gap-sg,0,6256927.storygallery?coll=ny-relateditems-news   (603 words)

  
 Coverage: The LIRR gap - Newsday.com
A state investigation into the death of a Minnesota tourist who fell into a Long Island Rail Road gap at the Woodside station found that the inebriated teen likely was responsible for her own death.
Peter Smead wants to meet face to face with the Long Island Rail Road officials he blames for the death of his teenage daughter, believing that they should have done something long ago to fix the gaps between the platforms and trains.
Parents who ride the Long Island Rail Road said yesterday that they hold their children tightly when boarding and exiting trains, but the railroad should do more to prevent falls such as that of 4-year-old Brittany Walker, who slipped through a gap Wednesday at Penn Station.
www.newsday.com /news/local/longisland/ny-lirr-gap-sg,0,566004.storygallery?coll=ny-main-bigpix   (532 words)

  
 Saber - Case Studies - MTA Long Island Rail Road
The MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is the busiest commuter railroad in North America, carrying an average of 274,000 customers each weekday on 730 daily trains.
The LIRR was in need of documentation for standardizing their Plant Equipment Maintenance Department (PEMD) procedures for the management of manpower and plant equipment and requested a 20-year needs assessment.
The SAMM database and tablet PCs were turned over to the railroad so that LIRR can use the system as a tool to manage their ongoing operations and capital budget, constantly monitor the facilities operations department, compare future results to this benchmark, and continue to measure future maintenance performance.
www.gfnet.com /saber/lirr.htm   (487 words)

  
 LIRR's freight comeback - Long Island Rail Road Railway Age - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Freight is back on the Long Island Rail Road, and if you look at where it was in the not-too-distant past, the recovery has been nothing short of remarkable.
In the intermodal area, LIRR is looking at establishing an operation on the eastern end of Long Island.
But if we are going to get trucks off the Long Island Expressway (the primary east-west artery), we're going to need a major intermodal terminal on the eastern end of the island.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1215/is_n8_v194/ai_14236888   (958 words)

  
 United Transportation Union v. Long Island Rail Road Co.
The Long Island is concededly a railroad engaged in interstate commerce.
In particular, Congress long ago concluded that federal regulation of railroad labor relations is necessary to prevent disruptions in vital rail service essential to the national economy.
The eastern terminus is at Montauk Point, at the tip of Long Island, but most of its main and branch line traffic originates in the western half of Long Island, in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, and in the suburbs of Nassau and western Suffolk Counties.
supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0455_0678_ZO.html   (3029 words)

  
 Long Island Rail Road's Worst Train Crash- The Richmond Hill Historical Society
Suddenly, with a cataclysmic boom, it slams into the rear of the stalled train -- precipitating the worst train wreck in Long Island history, the worst in New York State history and the worst in the nation since 1943.
There was testimony that the railroad -- with government approval -- had abandoned using an automatic safety device that would have cut the Babylon train's speed to 15 mph and reduced the disastrous crash to a slight bump.
Years later, an LIRR official who was on the stalled train said a flagman had been dispatched.
www.richmondhillhistory.org /LIRRcrash.html   (936 words)

  
 The SubwayNut's Long Island Rail Road Section
The line is 3rd rail electric until Croton Harmon, In terms of service the line generally has two trains per hour or better during the day One electric train from Croton-Harmon making all stops to Grand Central.
Service on this line is 3rd rail electric to Southeast(Brewster North), where a change is required on most trains (except on some peak trians) to a Diesel Shuttle up to Wassasic.
The line is 3rd rail from Grand Central until north of Mount Vernon East where trains rase their pantographs while in motion and use them through Connecticut.
subwaynut.com /lirr/index.html   (684 words)

  
 Long Island Rail Road Historical Society Home Page
It was chartered on 24 April 1834 to run from the Long Island City ferries across from Manhattan to Orient Point, some 120 miles east on the North Fork of Long island where it would connect by ferry with the Old Colony Railroad at Stonington, Connecticut, and so on to Boston.
The LIRR, having ignored all the towns along the Island and having been built on the most barren (and inexpensive) land on the Island now had no "raison d'être" and had to scurry to build or buy branches to the population centers on Long Island.
LIRR modelers should look at Model Railroading on Long Island and at Mike Boland's articles in the SEMAPHORE, the monthly newsletter of the Long Island-Sunrise Trail Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society and consider joining the Sunrise Trail Division of the Northeastern Region of the National Model Railroad Association.
home.att.net /~Berliner-Ultrasonics/lirrhs.html   (2385 words)

  
 Bechtel/URS Greiner Joint Venture Selected for $3.2 Billion Long Island Rail Road East Side Access Project
The ESA Project is a significant component of the overall transportation improvement program for the Long Island Transportation Corridor and the New York City metropolitan area.
The Long Island Rail Road is the country's busiest commuter railroad, operating a train every 100 seconds into New York's Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station) on Manhattan's West Side.
It will involve more than 20,000 linear feet of new hard-rock and soft-ground tunnels and reconstructed tunnels between Long Island City and Manhattan, including the lower-level of the existing 63rd Street-Queens Boulevard Connector Tunnel, which is part of the 63rd Street Subway line.
www.bechtel.com /newsarticles/215.asp   (746 words)

  
 ››› buch.de - bücher - Revisiting the Long Island Rail Road: 1925-1975 - David Keller; Steven ...
Planned and chartered on April 24, 1834, the Long Island Rail Road commenced operations in 1836 to provide a route to Boston.
Electrification was begun on the Long Island Rail Road in 1905.
Whether it was commuter, freight, or special trains, third-rail operations played a major role in the Long Island Rail Road's development as well as the people, places, and industries it served.
www.buch.de /buch/06888/662_revisiting_the_long_island_rail_road_1925_1975.html   (186 words)

  
 LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD HISTORY, Online Museum of Long Island Rail Road and Photo Gallery
Newsday reports that the LIRR will spend $7.2 million on a two year study of the movement of trains through Jamaica Station with a goal of improving the "Jamaica Crawl".
RAIL ROAD AT WOODSIDE TO FLUSHING, WITH A BRANCH TO WHITESTONE.
BY RAIL TO THE SEA - TO THE ROCKAWAYS
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 Long Island Rail Road Long Island Connection - Small Business Arts Network
The first depot in Manhasset, a wooden frame building described as looking like a packing box with a roof on it, was built on land donated by the Travers family.
The long Island Connection is an online regional business networking platform.
Long Island Connection Free Online Classifieds - Our Advertising Forum is a place where you can post your free classified ads to thousands of active users.
www.longislandconnection.net /longislandrailroad.htm   (277 words)

  
 Long Island Association, Inc.
The Long Island Association wishes to express its deep concern and disappointment with the actions of the Capital Program Review Board in creating a separate sets of rules for the development of a third track along the mainline of the Long Island Rail Road within its approval resolution of the MTA’s Capital Plan for 2005-9.
The development of a third track along the mainline of the Long Island Rail Road between Bellerose and Hicksville is without a doubt the number one transportation project now being developed on Long Island and has been on the drawing boards of the LIRR for the past twenty years.
The Long Island Association calls upon you, the chair of the Capital Program Review Board, to call a special meeting of the Board and to rescind the language in the approval memorandum dated July 13, 2005, which creates a separate approval process for the third track project on the Long Island Rail Road.
www.longislandassociation.org /lia_in_the_news_article.cfm?ARTNUM=Pres5832140802   (667 words)

  
 EPA: Federal Register: Environmental Impact Statement for the Long Island Rail Road Main Line Corridor Improvements, ...
LIRR representatives will be available for informal questions and comments throughout the duration of each scoping meeting.
Description of the Project Area The MTA Long Island Rail Road is the busiest commuter railroad in North America, carrying an average of 274,000 customers each weekday on 730 daily trains.
The LIRR system includes 11 rail lines stretching from Montauk--on the eastern tip of Long Island--to the refurbished Penn Station in the heart of Manhattan, approximately 120 miles away.
www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2005/May/Day-06/i9034.htm   (1901 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Long Island Rail Road Article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The LIRR has two major terminals and two minor terminals in New York City - The major terminals are located at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, and Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn.
The LIRR's history stretches back to 1832 and the Brooklyn and Jamaica RR Company which built a ten mile stretch of track between Brooklyn and Jamaica.
The only remaining business was to serve Long Island itself, something the railroad was not built to do.
www.ipedia.com /long_island_rail_road.html   (1517 words)

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