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- This morning's trains to Montauk were packed to the gills, no surprise there. The LIRR directed people who could not fit onto train 2706 (11:25 AM Jamaica to Montauk) to instead take train 42 (11:22 AM Penn to Babylon express) to Babylon, transfer to train 2768 (12:28 PM Babylon to Patchogue scoot...

Does anyone know the exact location of the 125 street & Lexington Ave station and how far the tail tracks extend west? There's nothing in that area yet. Current plans for Phase 2 would have the station stretching from in-between Lex Av and 3 Av to almost Park Av. The tail tracks are supposed to...

What I was surprised to read, in the APTA Kulick report previously posted, was that apparently Hunterspoint Avenue or Long Island City service will be maintained after ESA opens. I thought the HPA/LIC service would end once ESA opened. All those diesel trains have to go somewhere. They can't go to ...

Will this Hicksville siding track go all the way to the Wantagh Pkwy bridge? I brought this up before as I believe there is plenty of room for it. The other question is do Massapequa & Hicksville tracks require a new substation to power the extended area of 3rd rail or is that already built in?...

The East Side Access project will bring trains from all 11 branches of the Long Island Rail Road into a new terminal being built beneath Grand Central Terminal. The new connection will increase the LIRR’s capacity into Manhattan, and dramatically shorten travel time for Long Island and eastern Quee...

Like MattAmity90 said, the MTA has looked into electrifying the Port Jefferson branch since the 1980s, but it was always interrupted. Extending electrification is on the MTA's radar, but there are no concrete plans yet. In the MTA Twenty-Year Capital Needs Assessment released in late 2013, the MTA m...