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Central Branch (Long Island Rail Road)

Index Central Branch (Long Island Rail Road)

The Central Branch is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the U.S. state of New York, extending from just east of Bethpage to just west of Babylon. [1]

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Alexander Turney Stewart

Alexander Turney Stewart (October 12, 1803 – April 10, 1876) was a successful Irish entrepreneur who made his multimillion-dollar fortune in what was at the time the most extensive and lucrative dry goods business in the world.

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Babylon Branch

The Babylon Branch is a rail service operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.

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Babylon station

Babylon is a station on the Long Island Rail Road in the village of Babylon, New York at Railroad Avenue west of Deer Park Avenue (Suffolk CR 34).

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Bethpage Branch

The Bethpage Branch was a branch of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR), running from the present-day split between the Ronkonkoma Branch and Central Branch (then called the Bethpage Junction and now called Bethpage Interlocking) north about to present-day Old Bethpage, New York.

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Bethpage station

Bethpage is a station along the Main Line of the Long Island Rail Road.

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Central Railroad of Long Island

Central Railroad of Long Island was built on Long Island, New York, by Alexander Turney Stewart, who was also the founder of Garden City.

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Charles Minthorn Murphy

Charles Minthorn Murphy (October 1870 – February 16, 1950), also known as Mile-a-Minute Murphy, was an American cycling athlete.

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Commuter rail

Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city centre and middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km (10 miles) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters—people who travel on a daily basis.

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Creedmoor Branch

The Creedmoor Branch was the name of a short branch that the Long Island Rail Road gave to the right of way of tracks between its Floral Park station and Creedmoor State Hospital in Queens, New York.

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Creedmoor Psychiatric Center

Creedmoor Psychiatric Center is a psychiatric hospital in Queens Village, Queens, New York, United States that provides inpatient, outpatient and residential services for severely mentally ill patients.

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EMD DE30AC and DM30AC

The EMD DE30AC and EMD DM30AC are 46 locomotives built in 1997–1998 by Electro-Motive Division in the Super Steel Plant in Schenectady NY for the Long Island Rail Road of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York.

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Fire Island

Fire Island is the large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the south shore of Long Island, New York.

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Floral Park, New York

Floral Park is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island.

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Flushing, Queens

Flushing is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States.

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Garden City, New York

Garden City is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York, United States, in the town of Hempstead.

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Glossary of rail transport terms

Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology.

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Hempstead (village), New York

Hempstead is a village located in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Hempstead Branch

The Hempstead Branch is an electrified rail line and service owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.

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Jamaica station

Jamaica is a major hub station of the Long Island Rail Road, and is located in Jamaica, Queens, New York City.

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Levittown, New York

Levittown, formerly Island Trees, is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York on Long Island.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Long Island City

Long Island City (LIC) is the westernmost residential and commercial neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Long Island Rail Road

The Long Island Rail Road, legally known as the Long Island Rail Road Company and often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island.

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Main Line (Long Island Rail Road)

The Main Line is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.

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Metropolitan Transportation Authority

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the U.S. state of New York, serving 12 counties in Downstate New York, along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut under contract to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, carrying over 11 million passengers on an average weekday systemwide, and over 850,000 vehicles on its seven toll bridges and two tunnels per weekday.

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Montauk Branch

The Montauk Branch is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.

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Nassau County, New York

Nassau County or is a suburban county comprising much of western Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.

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Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, commonly known as the Nassau Coliseum, and branded as NYCB Live: Home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum for naming rights reasons, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Uniondale, New York.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York and Atlantic Railway

The New York and Atlantic Railway (NY&A) is a short line railroad formed in 1997 to provide freight service over the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road, a public commuter rail agency which had decided to privatize its freight operations.

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New York State Route 27

New York State Route 27 (NY 27) is an east–west long state highway extending from Interstate 278 (I-278) in the New York City borough of Brooklyn to Montauk Point State Park on Long Island, New York, in the United States.

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Old Bethpage, New York

Old Bethpage is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located on Long Island in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Planned community

A planned community, or planned city, is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped greenfield land.

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Rail freight transport

Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

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Ronkonkoma Branch

The Ronkonkoma Branch is a rail service operated by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in the U.S. state of New York.

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South Farmingdale station

South Farmingdale was a station along the Central Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in South Farmingdale, New York, United States.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by Meredith Corporation.

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Suffolk County, New York

Suffolk County is a suburban county on Long Island and the easternmost county in the U.S. state of New York.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Central Branch (LIRR), Central Extension (LIRR), Central Extension (Long Island Rail Road), Central Railroad Extension, Lirr central branch.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Branch_(Long_Island_Rail_Road)

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