The Long Island Railroad
The Long Island Rail Road Company (LIRR) is a commuter rail service on Long Island, New York. It was originally chartered in 1834 to provide service between NYC and Boston via a ferry at Greenport. During the grand era of railroad consolidation in the 1870s, the competing rail companies on Long Island were integrated into the LIRR by presidents Conrad Poppenhusen and Austin Corbin. In 1900, the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) bought controlling interest in the LIRR to provide direct service to midtown. A general decline in the economic viability of railroads after World War II led to an end of PRR subsidies of the LIRR, which led the LIRR into bankruptcy in 1949. The State of New York subsequently subsidized the LIRR until 1965, when it bought the LIRR from the PRR and placed it under the Metropolitan Commuter Transit Authority, which became the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in 1968.
When I was working at Farmingdale State College from 2017 - 2020, I lived adjacent to the Farmingdale station from 2017 - 2018 and commuted out to Farmingdale via the Ronkomkoma line from 2018 - 2020. The following are a random collection of scenes I captured during a variety of different encounters with the LIRR.
