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Extending the AirTrain JFK all the way from Jamaica to LGA is unnecessarily expensive. Similarly, constructing a branch off of the Port Washington Branch would also be considerably expensive, slow, and with the tight turns and having to navigate around existing landing paths, probably wouldn't be po...

Back when the AirTrain to LGA plan came out, I did some math as to determine how much it would cost the LIRR to add two trains per hour all day long to Little Neck, and then lower the zone 3 fare for Port Washington Branch stations from what they are now to $2.38, the same effective price as the sub...

The LIRR defines a primary failure as an equipment problem that causes a delay. Because of the nature of this definition, trains that might experience equipment trouble in the yard, but receive a substitute set of equipment in time and the train still arrives at its final destination on-time, are no...

Been lots of equipment breakdown and trains cancel on the DE/DM C3 recently.Whats going on are all the mechanics retired or are there any new mechanics quailified to fixed the trains. Just to many breakdowns are happening on a daily basics. For diesel reliability during December, the DM's and C3's ...

No, "Diesel" is the diesel fleet average (DE's, DM's, and C3's). 21DM's + 24 DE's + 134 C3's = 179 "Diesel"

I don't believe the LIRR has 179 freight locomotives.

As the poster immediately above noted, many Nassau County riders like to "have their cake and eat it too" by buying the discounted ticket and "accidentally" riding across the border into Nassau County. If I remember correctly, there was a time when the LIRR would have extra coll...

About 60 from NJ to HAROLD, then about 35 from HAROLD to the Garden-Mitchell Secondary.

The train passed through NYK around 2ish Tuesday morning and was on its way to HAROLD at the time of this posting.

Two ACS-64's set out from NYK twoards New Jersey around 11:45p Monday night to collect the circus train.

Number 15...
[quote="LIRR Service Advisory System"]4:34 Penn due Babylon at 5:39PM has been canceled due to broken rail west of Jamaica. Customers take 4:37PM to Wantagh, extended to Babylon.[/quote]

SwingMan wrote:That isn't how equipment cycling works, bud.

Mr. Nowakowski mentioned at a Committee Meeting at some point that they were going to put a high-level platform in there for one of the platforms, and that it would presumably be ready for this year's Belmont Stakes. At last year's even, a portion of the overpass sagged due to weight of waiting pass...

Now...isn't the bigger limit to this the fact that the double-tracking doesn't extend quite far enough past Huntington and they've got to do something about that before the upside of electrification or yard somewhere in the middle can be realistically tapped? You could likely add a notable number o...

did you notice the thermometer ??? You would think that in an area where it's cold for one fourth of the year that that would be taken into account in the design process... At any rate, the statistics don't bear that out. Over the past six years the averages show that there's no correlation between...

The reliability of the LIRR's diesel fleet has been increasing ever so slightly since October 2008, but overall, it's still fairly poor comparatively. (Doing the MDBF calculations takes the LIRR a month and a half for some reason, so the figures end at December 2014). The number of trains that have ...