According to the website Trains Are Fun, which documents LIRR crashes as far back as 1865, between 1912 and the end of 1950, ...

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MTA: Service restored on West Hempstead LIRR branch following train fire Trains were stalled in both directions between West Hempstead and Valley Stream for hours when a fire broke out on a work train ...

The MTA says a Hempstead woman was killed in a suspected electrocution on the LIRR tracks in Freeport Saturday morning. They say the woman, 20, was walking on the tracks when she touched the third ...

A ribbon-cutting event was held Friday, June 13, to commemorate the new beautification of Port Washington’s Long Island Rail Road. The event and project were spearheaded by Residents Forward, a ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Andrew Sparberg, a retired LIRR manager, transportation historian, and adjunct lecturer at CUNY. Do the “through running” proposals that would have Amtrak and ...