2019 was an unprecedented year in the history of the Long Island Rail Road. The Railroad improved its Ontime Performance (OTP), increased accessibility on trains and at stations while completing sweeping upgrades throughout the system, including 14 switch replacements, two grade crossing eliminations, eight bridge replacements and more than 10…
Alongside Expansion Project team member Dan Marcy, the East Woods School LEGO Robotics team points to their project’s location in Syosset on the map of the entire LIRR system. LEGO at school!! Don’t you wish you were still a student? On Monday, December 9, at the LIRR Expansion Project Community…
The MTA LIRR Expansion Project Floral Park to Hicksville team had a busy 2019! Here’s a timelapse video of the major milestones completed this year: “We have four more existing bridges to replace and six more at-grade crossings to eliminate over the next 35 months,” said MTA Chief Development Officer…
Support of excavation work has begun for the new Plainfield Avenue bridge in Floral Park, one of several bridges that have been or will be replaced as part of the LIRR Expansion project from Floral Park to Hicksville. Once this phase of construction is complete, work will start on the…
One of the true gems of the Long Island Rail Road, Port Jefferson Station, located on the Port Jefferson Branch, serves approximately 1,375 riders each weekday. The current station building, opened on July 25, 1903, was designed by famed architect Stanford White, most known for designing the triumphal arch at…
The transformation of Penn Station continues to move forward, with construction related to the East End Gateway and LIRR Concourse project requiring the temporary relocation of the LIRR’s Ticket Office. On Wednesday, the now-former ticket office was closed as the relocated Ticket Office, with six ticket windows, opened between the…
Harold Interlocking is the busiest passenger rail junction in North America – it handles more than 780 train movements per day from Amtrak, LIRR, NJ Transit and the New York & Atlantic Railway. As part of the East Side Access (ESA) project, track, signal, communications and power systems are being…
Box-jack. Have you heard of it? No, not the burger, and definitely not the creepy musical clown that pops out at you. It’s yet another in a series of incredible firsts for the MTA as part of the LIRR Expansion Project: a revolutionary technique to install railroad bridges over underpasses,…
With all the work the LIRR Expansion Project completed on the Main Line this past summer, we wanted to share with you how the MTA managed to achieve so many milestones on time. To get to the bottom of it, AModernLI spoke with LIRR Force Account Manager Steve Leidner to learn more about the successful bridge roll-ins over the summer and the construction crews that made it happen.
Penn Station, one of the busiest transportation hubs in the U.S., is undergoing a massive transformation from its easternmost edge at 7th Avenue with East End Gateway to its westernmost edge at 9th Avenue with Moynihan Train Hall. Work on the new East End Gateway has been underway since September….
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