Topic - Long Island Rail Road

of track on its two lines to the two forks of the island and eight major branches. Each weekday, the LIRR provides more than 303,000 rides to customers. It is publicly owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which has styled it MTA Long Island Rail Road. The current LIRR logo combines the circular MTA logo with the text "Long Island Rail Road", and appears on the sides of trains. - Source: Wikipedia

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Rail passengers pass the Long Island Rail Road waiting room in Penn Station, in New York, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Tracks are empty at Mineola train station as Long Island Rail Road workers enter the third day of their strike, Monday, May 18, 2026, in Mineola, N.Y. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

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A passenger looks at a closed off entrance to the Long Island Rail Road at Grand Central station, Saturday, May 16, 2026, in New York, on the first day of a strike after five unions representing about half the LIRR's workforce walked off the job. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

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Passengers walk through the Long Island Rail area of New York's Penn Station, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Negotiations aimed at avoiding a walkout at the nation's largest commuter railroad resumed Wednesday after Gov. Andrew Cuomo prodded both sides to find an agreement that would keep 300,000 daily riders from being forced to find alternate ways of getting in and out of New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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A conductor checks the platform from his train at the Jamaica station of the Long Island Rail Road, in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Negotiations aimed at avoiding a walkout at the nation's largest commuter railroad resumed Wednesday after Gov. Andrew Cuomo prodded both sides to find an agreement that would keep 300,000 daily riders from being forced to find alternate ways of getting in and out of New York City. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Metro-North President Catherine Rinaldi, left, and Long Island Rail Road President Phillip Eng, right, listen as Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman and CEO Patrick Foye speaks during a news conference on Positive Train Control, a federally mandated rail safety technology, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

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Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss speaks during a news conference on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ** FILE **

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