New Cassel Substation With the LIRR Expansion Project poised to increase capacity, what’s going to provide all the extra power needed to run those additional trains? Traction substations, eight of them to be exact, are in various stages of construction and will deliver the power necessary to accommodate the added…
What does a substation do, and how does it work? There are 104 substations on the LIRR across all areas of the Rail Road’s electrified territory. At each of these substations, AC voltage is converted to DC voltage and safely fed to the third rail out on the tracks. This…
As part of proactive community engagement, the LIRR Expansion Project team met with the Principal, Gloria Dingwall, Assistant Principal and head custodian of the Dryden Street School in New Cassel, and with representatives from St. Joseph’s College Pre-K program to discuss upcoming construction work near the school. The Westbury Station…
The Westbury/New Cassel chapter of the NAACP invited the LIRR Expansion Project team to their Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event at the Yes We Can Community Center in New Cassel. Seth Sylvan, the 3rd Track Constructors (3TC) Community Ambassador to the Town of North Hempstead, discussed the project with…
The LIRR Expansion Project outreach team joined the Westbury/New Cassel chapter of the NAACP and local elected officials to inform members about current project activities and to answer construction questions. The LIRR Expansion Project Team regularly makes itself available to businesses, residents and elected officials in all the LIRR Expansion…
On January 11th, LIRR Expansion Project Team members met with State Senator Anna Kaplan and officials from the Town of North Hempstead, including Town Supervisor Judi Bosworth and Councilwoman Viviana Russell, to discuss various Expansion Project components within North Hempstead. Earlier this month, the team met with Senator Kaplan and…
A commuter rail system in the US state of New York, Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), has replaced the Port Washington electrical substation to boost the reliability of railway services.
On January 3, 2018, Long Island Rail Road President Phillip Eng announced the LIRR had completed work to replace the Port Washington electrical substation, on time and on budget. The new substation, which was built at a cost of $26.2 million, replaces an earlier brick-and-mortar substation that had been in…
On Saturday, December 15th, 3TC Community Ambassador to New Cassel, Seth Sylvan, attended the inauguration of Leslie Davis, the new NAACP Westbury Chapter President and spoke with many community leaders, including Westbury’s mayor Peter Cavallaro, Nassau County Legislator Siela Bynoe, and the PTA President for the Dryden Street School.
On December 12th the LIRR Expansion Project team met with Estefany Garay, Director of the Town of North Hempstead’s “Yes We Can” Community Center, and the center’s Coach Jackson, to advance the project’s outreach program and to strategize for future community outreach events with the Community Center.
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