About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Bayport (LIRR station), Beach Channel (LIRR station), Bellaire (LIRR station), Blue Point (LIRR station), Brookhaven (LIRR station), Brooklyn Hills (LIRR station), Brooklyn Manor (LIRR station), Calverton (LIRR station), Canal Street (LIRR station), Canoe Place (LIRR station), Center Moriches (LIRR station), Clarenceville (LIRR station), Clinton Road (LIRR station), Corona (LIRR station), Cutchogue (LIRR station), Dunton (LIRR station), Eastport (LIRR station), East Moriches (LIRR station), Elmhurst (LIRR station), Far Rockaway - Mott Avenue (IND Rockaway Line), Flowerfield (LIRR station), Fresh Pond (LIRR station), Glendale (LIRR station), Goose Creek (LIRR station), Grand Street (LIRR Main Line station), Grumman (LIRR station), Haberman (LIRR station), Hagerman (LIRR station), Hamilton Beach (LIRR station), Hammels (LIRR station), Higbie Avenue (LIRR station), Hillside (LIRR station), Holbrook (LIRR station), Holtsville (LIRR station), Howard (LIRR station), Landia (LIRR station), Laurel Hill (LIRR station), Manorville (LIRR station), Maspeth (LIRR station), Mastic (LIRR station), Mill Neck (LIRR station), Noyack Road (LIRR station), Ozone Park (LIRR station), Parkside (LIRR station), Peconic (LIRR station), Penny Bridge (LIRR station), Quogue (LIRR station), Rego Park (LIRR station), Republic (LIRR station), Richmond Hill (LIRR station), Sag Harbor (LIRR station), Setauket (LIRR station), Shinnecock Hills (LIRR station), Southampton Campus (LIRR station), South Farmingdale (LIRR station), Springfield Gardens (LIRR station), Suffolk Downs (LIRR station), The Raunt (LIRR station), Union Hall Street (LIRR station), Unqua (LIRR station), Wading River (LIRR station), Wainscott (LIRR station), Wantagh Railroad Complex, Water Mill (LIRR station), Winfield Junction (LIRR station), Woodhaven (LIRR station), Woodhaven Junction (LIRR station). Excerpt: Far Rockaway - Mott Avenue is the eastern terminal station on the New York City Subway's IND Rockaway Line. Originally a Long Island Rail Road station, it is the full-time southern terminal for the A train and the easternmost station on the New York City Subway. This station is the busiest of all the subway stations on the Rockaway peninsula. The station is built on a concrete viaduct. There are two tracks and an island platform. The tracks end at bumper blocks just beyond the northeast (railroad south) end of the platform. The doors at that end of the platform lead to the stairs down to the street level fare control area. A tower and crew offices are at the southwest end. The former track connection to the current LIRR's Far Rockaway station has been removed, and transferring now requires a short walk. The Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Rail Road had originally been part of a loop that traveled along the existing route, continuing through the Rockaway Peninsula and heading on a trestle across Jamaica Bay through Queens where it reconnected with the Rockaway Beach Branch. Far Rockaway station itself was originally built by the South Side Railroad of Long Island on July 29, 1869, then converted into a freight house, when a 2nd station was moved from Ocean Point Station (a.k.a. Cedarhurst Station), remodeled, and opened on October 1, 1881. The 3rd depot opened on July 15, 1890, while the 2nd depot was sold and moved to a private location in October 1890. The Ocean Electric Railway terminated at the station between 1897 and September 2, 1926, and the station served as the headquarters for the Ocean Electric Railway. It also served as the terminus of a Long Island Electric Railway trolley line leading to Jamaica, at New York Avenue (now Guy R. Brewer Boulevard). High-level platforms were added to the station as with much of the Far Rockaway Branch on April 10, 1942. Frequent fires and maintenance problems, the most...