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Morris Park Facility
Railroad maintenance facility in Queens, New York / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Morris Park Facility is a maintenance facility of the Long Island Rail Road in Queens, New York City. It includes two employee-only side platforms on the Atlantic Branch named Boland's Landing.[1] Two wooden platforms, each two cars long, exist on the two-track line, with a flashlight for workers to signal trains to stop.[2]
Bolands Landing LIRR Employees Only | ||||||||||||||||
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![]() The roundhouse and turntable. | ||||||||||||||||
General information | ||||||||||||||||
Location | Richmond Hill, Queens, New York | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°41′45″N 73°49′19″W | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | |||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Atlantic Branch | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms (LIRR employees only) | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Connections | None | |||||||||||||||
Construction | ||||||||||||||||
Parking | Employees Only | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1886 (Passenger station) 1889 (Maintenance Yard) | |||||||||||||||
Closed | 1939 (Passengers only) | |||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 2009 | |||||||||||||||
Electrified | 750 V (DC) third rail | |||||||||||||||
Former passenger services | ||||||||||||||||
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The facility opened on November 1, 1889.[3] Though used for train storage for over a century, it is mainly used for maintaining and refueling diesel locomotives and electro-diesel locomotives since the 1990s.[4]: 6 The locomotive roundhouse was renovated in 2018, with construction being completed in late 2020.[5]