2017年6月12日 · Today, every package that is delivered to a home or business on Long Island gets there via trucks from New Jersey. After the experiment ended, the LIRR was left with a unique fleet of rail cars that had no resale value. They were stored on a few segments of track around Long Island, one of which being the Montauk Cutoff.

2023年9月11日 · MTA Long Island Rail Road is advising Port Washington Branch customers to anticipate delays and cancelations during today’s PM rush, with service suspended east of Great Neck, due to an oversize box truck striking a 9’0” bridge in Plandome that carries the tracks over Stonytown Road.

2024年12月30日 · The Long Island Rail Road is the busiest commuter railroad in North America. LIRR carries an average of 301,000 customers each weekday on 735 daily trains.

They allow truck trailers and shipping containers to be carried over LIRR tracks despite low clearance of bridges. The LIRR began experimenting with bogies in the fall of 1988 as a way of increasing its freight business and reducing truck traffic that clogs local highways.

New York’s Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) has struggled for years with decaying leaves on the line during what its president Phillip Eng calls “low-adhesion season.” Trains can struggle to accelerate or stop on the rails' slick surfaces, sometimes locking their brakes and squaring off their wheels, which forces them to be removed from ...

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 M9 is a class of electric multiple unit railroad cars being built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries for use on the MTA's Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Metro-North Railroad. They entered service September 11, 2019.

The M7 is an electric multiple unit railroad car built by Bombardier for use on the MTA's Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and Metro-North Railroad. With delivery beginning in 2002, the M7 replaced the M1 railcars on both railroads as well as the ACMUs on Metro-North.

LIRR #530 was a one-of-a-kind car on LIRR. It was built by Budd in 1941 as a parlor car with 30 seats and 1 drawing room for NYC's new streamlined Empire State Express. When acquired by LIRR in 1967, it was converted to a 24 seat coach with bar.

2015年8月21日 · In early 2012 the LIRR stored a string of their M3 type rail cars at the ‘new’ Arch Street shop (more on the history of arch street in an upcoming post). At first they were stored as one train along the northernmost track.