Sentences with phrase «rail road train»

A Long Island Rail Road train is pictured in file photo.

Around this time 22 years ago, on December 7, 1993, Colin Ferguson opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road train, killing six passengers and wounding 19 others.

A Long Island Rail Road train that crashed in Brooklyn on Wednesday was going more than twice the speed limit when it slammed into a train station, injuring more than 100 people, federal investigators said.

A Long Island Rail Road train running late crashed at Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal and came off the tracks during the Wednesday morning rush hour, injuring 103 people — some of whom were thrown from their seats, officials and witnesses said.

A passenger aboard a Long Island Rail Road train out of Penn Station went into the bathroom to wash her hands — only to have a stream of black sludge come out of the faucet.

On Wednesday morning, a Long Island Rail Road train coming from Far Rockaway failed to come to a complete stop as it entered Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal, injuring 104 commuters, according to the latest numbers from the Fire Department of New York.

More than 100 people were injured after a Long Island Rail Road train crashed into Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, New York.

Long Island Rail Road trains were late more often in 2015 than in any other year since 2000, LIRR statistics show.

Meanwhile, some Long Island lawmakers have objected to the plan, saying they don't want Metro - North lines to be allowed to use Penn Station, on the grounds that it would take over slots currently used by Long Island Rail Road trains.

Not exact matches

With fewer platforms available, the repair work will complicate schedules for the three rail operators that use Penn Station: the national rail corporation Amtrak and the regional commuter train operators New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Rail Rrail operators that use Penn Station: the national rail corporation Amtrak and the regional commuter train operators New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Rail Rrail corporation Amtrak and the regional commuter train operators New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Rail RRail Road.

Swiss Rail began unloading Davos - bound passengers from their express trains, taking them on a half - hour bus trip on back roads around the blockage and then loading them onto a crowded red commuter train that ran the rest of the way into Davos.

Train traffic has been disrupted by explosions on the rail network, and on most major roads throughout the region, checkpoints have been set up by rebels and Ukrainian forces, making goods transport a risky business.

Fixed - track transit, such as light rail (LRT), subways or trains, remove commuters from roads.

The economic pain from Penn Station's crumbling infrastructure and the Long Island Rail Road's service disruptions could last years, rippling beyond train riders and the businesses where they work.

A Long Island Rail Road commuter who was targeted in a racist rant aboard the train says she plans to press charges against her tormenter, calling his words a «hate crime.»

The MTA will audit safety procedures at the Long Island Rail Road after an NTSB report criticized the railroad for lax enforcement of rules that could have saved the life of a worker struck by a train last June, railroad officials said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that Related, Vornado and Skanska won the bid for the redevelopment of the James A. Farley Post Office, which will be known as Moynihan Train Hall and feature 700,000 square feet of Office And Retail Space And Train Halls For Both Amtrak And The Long Island Rail Road.

With 1,300 Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit trains coming in and out of the station daily, that would imply roughly 325 trains a day would be cancelled between the three rail serviRail Road and NJ Transit trains coming in and out of the station daily, that would imply roughly 325 trains a day would be cancelled between the three rail servirail services.

Passengers clear the gap as they disembark an eastbound train headed for Babylon at the Lynbrook Long Island Rail Road station on Thursday.

Last week, Cuomo announced that the Related Companies, Vornado Realty Trust and Skanska won the bid for the redevelopment of the post office, which will feature 700,000 square feet of office and retail space, as well as train halls for both Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road.

He pointed to the free bus shuttle instituted last summer in Montauk and the establishment of the town rental registry as contributors to «having a calmer, saner summer,» and mentioned the successful bid to the Long Island Rail Road to run shuttle trains on the East End, due in 2018.

Mario Cuomo famously said «you campaign in poetry; you govern in prose» and if he was the orator, his son is the operator, the one who passes state budgets on time and — as when he resolved a threatened Long Island Rail Road strike last year — makes trains run on schedule.

The plans call for a brand new, 255,000 - square - foot train hall, which will accommodate both Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road passengers, that's scheduled to be completed by the end of 2020.

For at least three decades, officials have debated adding a track on the Long Island Rail Road's Main Line, with often vehement opposition from some residents over train noise, disruption during construction and the acquisition of homes and businesses.

Amtrak said in 2014 that repairs would begin in 2019, but that has now been pushed back until after the Long Island Rail Road starts to run trains into Grand Central Terminal as part of the East Side Access project.

New York has received $ 295 million to repair the Harold Interlocking in Sunnyside Yards, a junction that sees trains from the Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak and New Jersey Transit.

Harold Interlocking in Sunnyside Yard is the busiest passenger rail junction in North America, with 783 trains moving through the area each day from three different transit systems: the Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak and New Jersey Tranrail junction in North America, with 783 trains moving through the area each day from three different transit systems: the Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak and New Jersey TranRail Road, Amtrak and New Jersey Transit.

The rail switching center is used by three separate railroads — the Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak and New Jersey Transit — which altogether send 783 trains moving through the interlocking every day, making it the busiest in North Amerrail switching center is used by three separate railroads — the Long Island Rail Road, Amtrak and New Jersey Transit — which altogether send 783 trains moving through the interlocking every day, making it the busiest in North AmerRail Road, Amtrak and New Jersey Transit — which altogether send 783 trains moving through the interlocking every day, making it the busiest in North America.

The developer's purchase of those development rights will, in turn, help finance the long - sought conversion of the post office into a train hall for Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, and Long Island Rail Road.

Fred Thiele and the Long Island Rail Road on the plan to run trains between Speonk and Montauk for workers to reduce traffic.

«I am very upset about the whole thing,» said Joyce Gorycki of Mineola, widow of a Long Island Rail Road official killed in the 1993 train shooting and co-chair of Long Island's New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.

He's redeveloping the post office across the street into a train hall for Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road, which should free up some concourse space at Penn..

As far as reducing UK emissions is concerned, it would make more sense to cut rail fares to encourage people to use trains more — instead of pushing people back into cars on already jam - packed roads, and increasing congestion, emissions and air pollution.

The engineer of the Long Island Rail Road commuter train that derailed in Brooklyn on Wednesday couldn't recall the exact moment of the accident, according to an official with the NTSB.

«We worked with Long Island Rail Road to cancel overnight service that would have a minimal impact on commuters so we could move more trains across the system and backed up our plan with longer trains, new trains that hadn't run before, discounts to alternate terminals in Brooklyn and Queens, buses and ferries, and free subway transfers.»

Looking north, a westbound train passes through the Merillon Avenue Long Island Rail Road station in Garden City Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016.

The coalition that gathered outside the governor's office today also called on him to make sure that the MTA and Port Authority allocate 30 percent of all contracts for the planned Long Island Rail Road expansion, the Newark Airport Terminal A redevelopment and the conversion of the Farley Post Office into the Moynihan Train Hall.

This project will not only build the track, but it will also modernize the Long Island Rail Road with a new signal system, remove dangerous grade crossings literally saving lives, accommodate positive train control, and bring additional commuter parking.»

The $ 1.5 billion project, known as the Moynihan Train Hall, will house concourses for both Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road, and feature 112,000 square feet of retail space.

When Pennsylvania Station in New York undergoes major track repairs in July, the Long Island Rail Road will offer commuters whose trains are diverted to other stations an average discount of about 25 percent, officials said.

When the station undergoes major track repairs in July, the Long Island Rail Road will offer commuters whose trains are diverted an average discount of about 25 percent, officials said.

Cuomo has spent the last week or so touting the state's investments in roads, bridges, subways, airports, a rail tunnel, a convention center, a train station, and so on.

But Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has been rolling out a spate of ambitious proposals in anticipation of his State of the State address tomorrow, said this morning that a train link would be constructed from the No. 7 line and Long Island Rail Road at Willets Point to LaGuardia, lending the airport the type of rail link extended to John F. Kennedy International Airport more than a decade Rail Road at Willets Point to LaGuardia, lending the airport the type of rail link extended to John F. Kennedy International Airport more than a decade rail link extended to John F. Kennedy International Airport more than a decade ago.

He said he also plans to operate three full dome cars on the Saratoga and North Creek Rail Road's Train to Christmas Town, making more premium tickets available and boosting revenues.

But Iowa Pacific's president, Ed Ellis, said Friday afternoon that the Polar Express, operated by Chicago - based Iowa Pacific's Saratoga and North Creek Rail Road, would be replaced by the «Train to Christmas Town.»

Mark Epstein, chair of the Long Island Rail Road Commuter Council, says LIRR is awaiting delivery of new train cars, «But we just need to get it done.

Passengers disembark from a Long Island Rail Road commuter train at Long Beach station in Long Beach, N.Y., in 2017.

By the end of two solid weeks of skipping from airport to train station to hotel to lab to train station to airport I was well qualified to write the Lonely Planet guide to European rail - road - air connections.

The continued use of a stylised steam train on road signs warning of a rail crossing is not quite as...

Instead, get into the Long Island Rail Road and to Farmingdale Station and then call the Hotel Shuttle or a cab from that Station (see information By Train above).