Long Island Rail Road rolling stock
In one thousand nine hundred ninety seven and 1998, the LIRR received one hundred thirty four double-decker C3 passenger cars from Kawasaki, including twenty three cab control cars, and forty six General Motors Electro-Motive Division diesel-electric locomotives (23 diesel DE30ACs and twenty three dual-mode DM30ACs) to pull them, permitting trains from non-electric territory to access Penn Station for the very first time in many years, [Two] [Trio] due to the prohibition on diesel operation in the East Sea Tunnels leading to Penn Station. [ citation needed ] They were also the very first trains with computerized voices (finish with LED sign displays) announcing stations along the routes. However, over the years of service the automated announcements and LED displays usually do not work, consequently enabling the conductors to announce the stations, as complaints from many riders.
Embarking in 1999, the LIRR bought eight hundred thirty six fresh electrical M7 electrified numerous units from Bombardier, substituting its M1 cars. [Four] [Five] These cars have an automatic station announcement and LED sign display system. [6] Delivery began in the early 2000s, with the very first ones beginning revenue service in October 2002.
On September Nineteen, 2013, it was announced that the LIRR would procure fresh M9/M9A cars from Kawasaki. [7] This procurement includes a rigid initial order of ninety two cars. Given sufficient funding, another three hundred twenty four cars will be ordered. The cars will substitute the M3s and expand the fleet in prep for service into Grand Central Terminal via the East Side Access. [8] The cars are being assembled at Kawasaki’s plant in Yonkers.
For the summers of 2017-2020, the LIRR has leased eight single-level coaches from MARC in order to free up their C3 coaches for the Motauk Branch. Eventually, it will increase to seventeen and then 21.
When the LIRR began operations in 1836, it leased the freshly opened Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad, including its two duplicate steam locomotives, Ariel and Post Boy, both built by Matthias W. Baldwin. (Ariel was Baldwin’s 19th engine, built in 1835.) The LIRR soon acquired, through the B&J, Hicksville in one thousand eight hundred thirty six and John A. King (the only engine built by the Poughkeepsie Locomotive Company) in 1838. Post Boy was sold off after an one thousand eight hundred fifty two accident. [9]
Both the "Hicksville" and the "John A. King", were likely acquired 2nd forearm by the B & J in one thousand eight hundred thirty six and one thousand eight hundred thirty eight respectively.
The "Hicksville" was acquired by the B & J in one thousand eight hundred thirty six from a tunnel building concern "Proprietors Of Locks And Canals", based in Lowell, Massachusetts. This company is still in existence. According to Robert Stephenson Company records, in the year 1831, the rock hard of "Locks And Canals" purchased two locomotives fresh from the Robert Stephenson Company (order # eight and 17) in England. It is likely the B & J purchased one of those two engines, 2nd arm, from Locks And Canals in 1836, and renamed it the "Hicksville" (after Valentine Hicks, 2nd President of the LIRR, and founder of Hicksville, NY). It is also likely, that at some point prior to its re- sale to the B & J, the engine in question was modified to Stephenson’s famous 2-2-2 wheel arrangement.
According to "The History Of Brooklyn", by Hazelton, ca. 1920’s, the LIRR acquired a 2nd forearm locomotive originally named the "Taglioni" from "the Dutchess County (NY) Railway, of British origin, with a large funnel smokestack". This is likely to be the "John A. King". The "Poughkeepsie Locomotive Works" may have only performed a wheel arrangement modification on a pre existing British built locomotive. It should be noted, that Poughkeepsie is also located in Dutchess County Fresh York, hence the possible entity name confusion in the Hazelton book.
Long before modern piggyback services, the LIRR began carrying farm wagons aboard flatcars in 1885. [9]
In the early 20th century, the LIRR was a testing ground for the Pennsylvania Railroad’s electrification, including Phoebe, its very first electrical (AA1), and was the very first company to extensively electrify its primary lines. The DD1 electrified locomotives were developed from the prototypes that were tested on LIRR trackage. Later it eyed power such as the B3. [9]
The LIRR’s steam passenger locomotives were modernized from one thousand nine hundred one to 1906, and by 1927, it was the very first Class I railroad to substitute all its wood passenger cars with steel. [9]
In 1926, the LIRR was the very first U.S. railroad to begin using diesel locomotives. The last steam locomotive was a G5s operated until 1955. [9]
Electrified storage battery cars were used on the West Hempstead Branch (Valley Stream to Mineola) from one thousand nine hundred thirteen until it was electrified in 1926, and on the Bushwick Branch prior to the end of its passenger operations in 1924. [9] The Central Branch from Garden City east to Mitchel Field was electrified with third rail in 1915, but used ex-Ocean Electrical Railway trolley cars until 1933. Normal electrified trains, such as the MP41 were then used until 1950, when they were substituted by MP54’s until the line’s abandonment in 1953. [Ten]
One of the most popular decisions by Governor Rockefeller after the one thousand nine hundred sixty six takeover was substituting the entire electrical passenger fleet with M1 cars. [ citation needed ] It acquired seven hundred seventy M1 cars built by Budd and General Electrified from one thousand nine hundred sixty eight to 1974, and one hundred seventy four M3 cars, built in one thousand nine hundred eighty five and 1986, also by the Budd Company. [11] [12]
Diesel-hauled trains through the late 1990s were operated using 1950s-era P72/PT75 series coaches built by Pullman-Standard. About twenty eight EMD GP38-2 and twenty three MP15AC diesel-electric locomotives pulled about two hundred twenty three passenger cars, mostly former electrical numerous units. [11]