Long Island Rail Road: Port Jefferson Branch (Images of Rail)

Long Island Rail Road: Port Jefferson Branch (Images of Rail)

The Long Island Rail Road is the oldest railroad in the country still operating under its original name. As the busiest railroad in North America, it carries 265,000 customers each weekday aboard 735 trains on 11 different branches. The Port Jefferson Branch serves 10 stations from Hicksville to Port Jefferson and carries nearly 20 percent of the railroadâ€™s passenger traffic over its 32 miles of track. Hicksville Station is the site of the October 8, 1955, â€œEnd of Steam Ceremony,â€ when steam locomotives were retired from service. The oldest surviving station building constructed by the Long Island Rail Road is on this branch at St. James. Between 1895 and 1938, the branch extended 10 miles east to Wading River. The branch was not electrified until 1970 and that was only to Huntington Station, east of which is served by diesel and dual-mode locomotives.
Country USA
Manufacturer Arcadia Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-10-28
Format Kindle eBook

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