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5 unusual facts about Long Island Rail Road


Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane

The Marmon was fitted with railroad wheels, and an unused spur of the Long Island Rail Road, four miles (6 km) east of Farmingdale, New York was put back into service.

Lirr

Long Island Rail Road, a commuter railroad in Long Island, New York, USA

Long Beach Medical Center

Public transportation access is available through Long Beach Bus, with connections to Nassau Inter-County Express and the Long Island Rail Road.

Long Island Rail Road

On the day of the Belmont Stakes horse race, extra trains to accommodate the large amount of spectators attending the event.

Shahawar Matin Siraj

Bryant Neal Vinas, American Muslim convert who traveled to Pakistan, trained in al-Qaeda training camp in Waziristan, and helped al-Qaeda plan a bomb attack on the LIRR


63rd Street Tunnel

The two trackways on the lower level are currently unused by trains, but are designed for the Long Island Rail Road's East Side Access project, which will bring LIRR commuter trains to Grand Central Terminal in the late 2010s.

Babylon Railroad

The line's main purpose was to provide transportation between the Long Island Rail Road station at the north end of the village center, to ferries for Jones Beach and Fire Island destinations.

BMT Brighton Line

It was an excursion railroad — the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway — to bring beachgoers from downtown Brooklyn (via a connection with the Long Island Rail Road) to the seashore at Coney Island on the Atlantic Ocean, at a location named Brighton Beach at the same time the railroad arrived.

Brookhaven Rail Terminal

Two EMD GP38 locomotives are used for on site switching, while cars are delivered and picked up by the New York and Atlantic Railroad via the Long Island Rail Road Main Line.

Kings Park Psychiatric Center Spur

Kings Park Psychiatric run-off also known as KPPC is an abandoned spur off the Port Jefferson Branch of the Long Island Rail Road for the Kings Park Psychiatric Center.

Medford, New York

Bryant Neal Vinas, convicted of participating in and supporting al-Qaeda plots in Afghanistan and the U.S., and helping al-Qaeda plan a bomb attack on the LIRR


see also

Manhattan Beach Line

Manhattan Beach Branch (or Manhattan Beach Division) of the Long Island Rail Road

Rockaway Branch

Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Rail Road (former Rockaway Division)