Download or read book Long Island Rail Road Babylon Branch written by David D. Morrison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Island Rail Road is the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name. It is the busiest railroad in North America, with 90 million annual riders on 735 trains covering 11 different branches. The Babylon Branch, which serves 15 stations from Valley Stream to Babylon, carries 18 million annual riders over its 20-mile right-of-way. The branch has been totally electrified since 1925 and has not had any street crossings at grade since 1979. There are three signal towers and four junctions for other branches on this line. Two railroad museums are housed in former branch station buildings, those being Wantagh and Lindenhurst.
Download or read book Long Island Rail Road Port Washington Branch written by David D. Morrison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name. It is the busiest railroad in North America, with 90 million annual riders on 735 trains covering 11 different branches. The Port Washington Branch carries 14 million riders annually and is the third-busiest branch on the LIRR, behind the Port Jefferson Branch (19 million riders) and the Babylon Branch (18 million riders). Port Washington Branch trains converge with the main line just east of Woodside Station. The branch has been electrified since 1913 and is double-track to a point just east of Great Neck Station. The highest bridge on the railroad is the Manhasset Viaduct, which goes over Manhasset Bay. The branch has serviced the 1939 New York World's Fair and the 1964 New York World's Fair as well as the stadium of the New York Mets baseball team. The Whitestone Branch, which was abandoned in 1932, diverted from the Port Washington Branch at a point a bit east of the current Mets-Willets Point station.
Download or read book Long Island Rail Road Main Line East written by Don Fisher and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Long Island Rail Road Montauk Branch written by David D. Morrison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East of Babylon, the 75-mile segment of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) stretching from Bay Shore to Montauk is a non-electrified stretch of double-track to Sayville, where it becomes single-track to Montauk. Presently, there are 16 active passenger stations along the route. In years past, there was a total of 32 passenger stations and a signal tower. Several highly significant historic events occurred at stations on this branch. At Montauk Station, Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders disembarked for quarantine upon return from Cuba during the Spanish-American War. At Amagansett Station, Nazi spies purchased train tickets in 1942 for travel to New York City with the intent to engage in acts of sabotage. It was at Westhampton Station that valiant firefighters prevented the building from being destroyed during the 1995 Long Island wildfire. During summer months, ridership on the east end of the branch increases dramatically in order to serve persons vacationing at east end resorts, where they can enjoy quaint shops and the beautiful beaches.
Download or read book Long Island Railroad Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Babylon Line written by Richard Greenberg and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Levittown, 1967. It’s the first night of an adult-ed creative writing course in a classroom at the local high school. The teacher, Aaron Port, lives in Greenwich Village and reverse commutes once a week on the Long Island Rail Road’s Babylon line. His students are a mixed bag: Frieda Cohen, Anna Cantor, and Midge Braverman, housewives all, embrace each other on arrival, and update their running checklists on each other’s kids, husbands, and lawns. Their opening gambit is to tell Aaron in no uncertain terms that they are only there because French Cooking and Flower Arranging are full. The two men in the class, Jack Hassenpflug and Marc Adams, sit silently at their desks. One final student, Joan Dellamond, rushes in late—but she actually does intend to be there. An aspiring writer troubled by a failing marriage, Joan has little in common with her neighbors. And yet, she does seek connection. Maybe this class will bring her, and Aaron, something that neither quite expects.
Download or read book Long Island Rail Road written by Stan Fischler and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Long Island Railroad Company 1834 1898 written by Elizur Brace Hinsdale and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Long Island Rail Road written by David Keller and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chartered on April 24, 1834, as a route from Brooklyn to Boston, the Long Island Rail Road commenced in 1836 with service between Brooklyn and Jamaica, New York. The railroad has linked Long Island and New York City through several periods of increasing immigration and population beginning in the 1880s. Farmers and fishermen have depended on the railroad for their livelihood, and every summer thousands of tourists flock to Long Island beaches on the Long Island Rail Road. It is still the nation's largest commuter railroad, transporting an average of over two hundred fifty thousand commuters daily. The Long Island Rail Road: 1925-1975 offers a behind-the-scenes look at freight and passenger activities and the people who worked on the railroad. These one-of-a-kind photographs depict structures no longer in use, such as towers, water tanks, and crossing shanties, as well as electric motive power and other facets of a working railroad.
Download or read book The Long Island Rail Road A Comprehensive History Part One South Side R R of L I written by Vincent F. Seyfried and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Island Railroad is the third oldest in the USA and has been in operation since 1836. When it opened in 1867 the South Side Railroad was its first direct competitor. In his detailed book, Vincent F. Seyfried has given a comprehensive account of its development.
Download or read book Long Island Railroad Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Long Island written by Peter Ross and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Long Island Rail Road A Comprehensive History Part One South Side R R of L I written by Vincent F. Seyfried and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Island Railroad is the third oldest in the USA and has been in operation since 1836. When it opened in 1867 the South Side Railroad was its first direct competitor. In his detailed book, Vincent F. Seyfried has given a comprehensive account of its development.
Download or read book Long Island Rail Road Stations written by David D. Morrison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Lost Trolleys of Queens and Long Island written by Stephen L. Meyers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before subways and trains, Queens and Long Island were reachable via a large number of electric trolley lines. An amazing assortment of electric trolley lines once traversed the towns and villages of Queens and Long Island. With names like Jamaica Central, Northport Traction, Ocean Electric, and the Steinway lines, some meandered across meadows and hills while others sped over elevated tracks. There was even one line that had streetcars but no tracks. In the end, all of them helped stitch the countryside into the concentrated suburban area it is today--with barely a trace of the trolleys left anywhere.
Download or read book Long Island Railroad written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East Side Access in New York Queens and Bronx Counties New York and Nassau and Suffolk Counties New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
