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Longtime former Long Island Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, who died in June, will be laid to rest on Long Island on Tuesday.
France's Alstom has received a 2 billion euro ($2.4 billion) order from the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to supply M-9A railcars for the Long Island Rail Road and Metro ...
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State-of-the-art M-9A vehicles will replace MTA's oldest commuter cars The vehicles will be produced at Alstom's facilities in upstate New York The base contract is valued at 2.0 billion euro (2.3 bil ...
Senator Chuck Schumer said, "It’s ‘All aboard!’ for economic growth because Alstom is forging the future of American railcar manufacturing right here in Upstate New York. This new, huge contract to ...
Rail ridership While there were more than 65.2 million riders on the Long Island Rail Road in 2023, ridership has not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels. Latest on LIRR ...
Long Island Rail Road Fire at Grand Central Madison disrupts LIRR service The fire broke out at around 8:15 a.m. FDNY officials said it was an electrical fire in a deep basement along the LIRR tracks.
Most of the work by the 11,200 construction workers, who have faced sweltering heat and freezing cold, has been out of the public view.