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Montauk Station was one of the settings for the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. [5] The noise of train engines left idling for long periods in the Montauk Yard was a cause of concern for local residents, who formed a group called the Montauk Anti-Pollution Coalition in 2003.
The Montauk Branch is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.The line runs the length of Long Island, 115 miles (185 km) from Long Island City to Montauk.
With 324 passenger route-miles, [3] it spans Long Island from Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn to Montauk station at the tip of the southern fork. Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan is the actual westernmost station of the Long Island Rail Road and its busiest station. The system currently has 126 stations on eleven rail lines called "branches".
On October 8, 2016, a commuter LIRR train side-swiped a maintenance train east of New Hyde Park station. The commuter train cars suffered damage and 33 passengers were injured, four of them seriously injured. [187] On January 4, 2017, a Long Island Rail Road commuter train derailed at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn. At least 103 people were injured.
Richmond Hill was the only station on the Lower Montauk Branch that was elevated with a high-level platform for passengers to wait for trains; the others were at ground level, with low-level platforms. The Richmond Hill station was originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island in 1869 as the Clarenceville station. After New York ...
The Montauk Cutoff is a cutoff approximately one-third of a mile in length [1] and was double-tracked for its entire length. [ 2 ] : 1 It begins just west of Sunnyside and Arch Street Yards ( 40°44′38″N 73°56′35″W / 40.744°N 73.943°W / 40.744; -73.943 ), after which it runs west parallel to Skillman Avenue and passes ...
This is a route-map template for the Montauk Branch, a Long Island Rail Road line.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Patchogue is a station of the Montauk Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in the Village of Patchogue, Suffolk County, New York. It is on Division Street between West Avenue (CR 19) and South Ocean Avenue. The station is the eastern terminus for some trains on the branch. Ferries to Fire Island board from a port near the station. [3]