QUEENS WORK 1. Installing the yellow safety handrail on car maintenance platforms in the future Mid-Day Storage Yard. 2. Removing a boulder from an underpinning pit on the east side of the 39th Street Bridge. 3. Air rotary drill driving mini piles for a new approach structure west of the…
QUEENS WORK 1. Continued installation of roof panels on the personnel bridge in the Mid-Day Storage Yard. 2. Completed track in the Mid-Day Storage Yard. 3. Assembling a Bauer BG-24 Drill Rig to drive piles for the final approach structure in Harold Interlocking, east of the 39th Street bridge. 4….
QUEENS WORK Removing old cables from a trough in preparation of the construction of a new approach structure. Installing bridge roof panels on the personnel bridge for the Mid-Day Storage Yard. Installing new hardware on catenary poles as part of ongoing improvements in Harold Interlocking. Fusing pipes for an underdrain…
QUEENS WORK Lowering materials for construction of a tunnel approach structure using a Linkbelt crane on the 39th Street bridge. Vacuum truck excavation of material between tracks in the Mid-Day Storage Yard for future conduit installation. Driving mini pile casing east of the 39th St. Bridge in Harold Interlocking for…
1. Removing an existing foundation from the BC approach structure footprint 2. Concrete placement for a communications ductbank that will service the Mid-Day Storage Yard 3. Installed rebar and conduit for the negative traction power ductbank for the future Mid-Day Storage Yard 4. Escalator Installation between the Mezzanine and Lower…
Construction of the future Long Island Rail Road Mid-Day Storage Yard in Queens is more than 50 percent complete – the new yard is one of the final components of the East Side Access project. Once completed the yard will enable the LIRR to store train cars between the morning…
Whether by seeing or feeling, passengers know they’re at the edge of a train platform thanks to these ubiquitous bumpy yellow tiles. Invented by Seiichi Miyake, the first tactile warning strips we installed in Okayama, Japan on March 18, 1967 next to a school for the blind. To this day…
The MTA continues to build out the concourse and terminal for East Side Access’ opening day in 2022. When completed, East Side Access will deliver fewer delays, greater reliability and more options for customers. The photos here provide a glimpse of the concourse, the terminal design and the overall aesthetic,…
At about 9:15 a.m. on Monday, February 4, a broken rail was discovered on LIRR’s Ronkonkoma Branch near Deer Park on Long Island. LIRR workers responded, fixing the rail by 11:45 a.m., enabling LIRR to operate around the site of the broken rail with minimum service impacts. All thanks to…
The MTA has completed a new traction power substation as part of the East Side Access project to bring LIRR service to Grand Central Terminal (GCT). The new G02 substation is part of East Side Access’ effort to modernize the infrastructure throughout Harold Interlocking. G02 is one of three new…
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