Long Island Rail Road Stations

Long Island Rail Road Stations

Author: David D. Morrison

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738511801

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Chartered in 1834 to provide a route between New York City and Boston, the Long Island Rail Road ran from the Brooklyn waterfront through the center of Long Island to Greenport. The railroad served the agricultural market on Long Island until branches and competing lines eventually developed on the north and south shores of the island and several hundred passenger stations were built. After Penn Station was opened in 1910, the number of passengers commuting between Manhattan and Long Island began to multiply. Today, one hundred twenty-five stations serve the Long Island Rail Road. Long Island Rail Road Stations contains vintage postcards of the old Penn Station, which was demolished in the mid-1960s; the Grand Stairway at the Forest Hills Station, where Theodore Roosevelt delivered his famous unification speech on July 4, 1917; and the Amagansett station building, where Nazi spies boarded a train bound for New York City on June 13, 1942. Many of the historic stations featured in this book have been preserved by local preservation groups, while others have been replaced with modern buildings to accommodate the passengers who commute on the nation's largest commuter railroad.


Long Island Rail Road: Main Line East

Long Island Rail Road: Main Line East

Author: Don Fisher

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467102539

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The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name, was chartered in 1834 for the purpose of running trains from the Brooklyn waterfront to the eastern terminal at Greenport. The east end of the LIRR main line consists of a 70-mile stretch of track from Hicksville to Greenport. At one time, there were 29 passenger stations along this east end route, 14 of which are active today. A decommissioned signal tower and obsolete turntable are located on this route. Two stations, Riverhead and Greenport, are locations of the Railroad Museum of Long Island. The 23 miles of track between Hicksville and Ronkonkoma is electrified by third rail current, the electrification having been completed in 1987. Single-track territory since 1844, the line is currently being double-tracked as far east as Ronkonkoma.


Long Island Rail Road: Oyster Bay Branch

Long Island Rail Road: Oyster Bay Branch

Author: David D. Morrison

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467128546

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The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name. The Oyster Bay Branch is one of the smaller branches but is probably the most historically significant one. There are 12 stations along the 14.3 miles of track (one station is closed but the building still stands). Of the 13 still existing LIRR stations built in the 1800s, six are on the Oyster Bay Branch. The branch is partly electrified, and two signal towers exist, one operating and one abandoned. At the terminal, Oyster Bay Station is the home train station of the 26th president of the United States--Theodore Roosevelt. The Oyster Bay Railroad Museum is currently restoring the train station, as well as the historic turntable and steam locomotive No. 35.


Long Island Rail Road (intrastate Passenger Fares)

Long Island Rail Road (intrastate Passenger Fares)

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce

Publisher:

Published: 1953

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13:

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Considers legislation to exclude intrastate railway passenger fare regulation from ICC jurisdiction. Focuses on New York State Public Service Commission proposed regulation of the Long Island Railroad.