Long Island Rail Road

The Long Island Rail Road, often called the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in New York. Its lines travel from Manhattan to Suffolk County on eastern Long Island. Over 334,000 people ride the LIRR every day. It is North America's busiest commuter railroad. It is also one of the few commuter systems in the world that runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.^[1]

Long Island Rail Road

LIRR Map
The Long Island Rail Road provides electric and diesel rail service east-west throughout Long Island, New York.
Overview
Headquarters	Jamaica, NY 11435
Reporting mark	LI
Locale	Long Island, New York
Dates of operation	1834–present (PRR-operated from 1928 to 1949)
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Other
Website	mta.info/lirr

The LIRR was created in 1834. It has never stopped operating since then. In the 1870s it was consolidated with the other railroads on Long Island. It is the oldest U.S. railroad that still has its original name.^[2] The LIRR has 124 stations and more than 700 miles (1,100 km) of railroad tracks,^[3] The LIRR has a total of 319 miles (513 km) of train routes.^[4]

It is owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The LIRR is one of two commuter rail systems owned by the MTA. The MTA also runs the Metro-North Railroad to New York's Hudson Valley and to Connecticut. It’s rolling stock consists of Budd M3 and Bombardier M7 EMUs from the 1980s and 2000s respectively, and Kawasaki M9 EMUs currently under construction. Diesel service is provided by Kawasaki C3 coaches pulled by EMD DE30AC and DM30AC locomotives, built in the late 1990s

LIRR Map
Legend
Penn Station Grand Central (Future) Long Island City Hunterspoint Avenue Woodside Forest Hills Kew Gardens Mets-Willets PtPort Washington Flushing Main Murray Hill Broadway Auburndale Bayside Douglaston Little Neck Great Neck Manhasset Plandome Port Washington Atlantic Terminal Nostrand Avenue East New York Jamaica Locust ManorFar Rockaway St. Albans Babylon Laurelton Valley Stream WestwoodWest Hempstead Malverne Lakeview Hempstead Gardens West Hempstead LynbrookLong Beach Center Avenue East Rockaway Oceanside Island Park Long Branch Gibson Hewlett Woodmere Cedarhurst Lawrence Inwood Far Rockaway Belmont ParkBelmont HollisHempstead Queens Village Bellerose Floral Park Stewart Manor Nassau Blvd Garden City Country Life Press Hempstead New Hyde ParkPort JeffersonRonkonkoma Merillon Avenue Mineola East WillistonOyster Bay Albertson Roslyn Greenvale Glen Head Sea Cliff Glen Street Glen Cove Locust Valley Oyster Bay Carle Place Westbury Hicksville Rockville Center Baldwin Freeport Merrick Bellmore Wantagh Seaford Massapequa Massapequa Park Amityville Copiague Lindenhurst Syosset Cold Spring Harbor Huntington Greenlawn Northport Kings Park Smithtown St. James Stony Brook Port Jefferson Bethpage Babylon Farmingdale Pinelawn Wyandanch Deer Park Brentwood Central Islip Ronkonkoma Medford Yaphank Riverhead Mattituck Southhold Greenport Bay ShoreMontauk Islip Great River Oakdale Sayville Patchogue Bellport Mastic-Shirley Speonk Westhampton Hampton Bays Southampton Bridgehampton Amagansett Montauk

References

1. "The MTA Network". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
2. "LIRR History". Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Retrieved 2013-03-01.
3. "Long Island Rail Road - General Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Retrieved 2014-03-23.
4. "Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the Years Ended December 31, 2012 and 2011" (pdf). Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). June 21, 2013. p. 146. Retrieved 2014-08-29.