Long Island City is more of a train yard that just so happens to allow passengers to board and detrain from trains there. The train yard itself has 12 tracks and is where diesel bilevel trains are stored between their peak hour runs. Service to the station is with just five trains each weekday in each direction, during peak direction only and all but one AM trip runs along the short line to Hunterspoint Avenue before stopping there and continuing up and via the main line to Jamaica (bypassing Woodside and the other intermediate stops). Today, just one AM arriving trip runs via the Lower Montauk Line passing the five abandoned low-platformed stations (closed only in 1998 just before the introduction of BiLevel Cars) along a grade with many level crossings over to Jamaica, one of the LIRR's most unique rides through industrial Queens. The reason the station is more of a train yard is because passenger access is to just a tiny short island platform (for about two cars), access is from a small walkway on Bordon Avenue up to the platform, where a TVM is.
All photos of this station taken on 13 June, 2011
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 C3 BiLevel cars in the train yard  The Long Island City platform used to be ~5 cars when it was completely low-level, when the 1950s diesel cars that had steps were still used. When the Bi-level cars (C-3s) came the two car high level patform was built over the beginning of the low level platform  A C-3 enters the yard next Long Island City after presumably terminating at Hunterspoint Avenue  Looking down the short platform with a dusting of snow, towards the stairs/ramp to track level and the exit  One of the two platform signs at Long Island City  C-3 #5006 at the buffer after terminating in Long Island City  The Daily Tickets Machine at Long Island City  C-3 #5006 at Long Island City  A sign for the $4.00 ferry to Manhattan  Looking at C-3 #4104 platformed at Long Island City, trough the fence for the street.  C-3 #4057 in Long Island City, next to a small employees only platform designed to get employees off the trains to track level  Diesel Locomotive DM-30 #520 in the station at Long Island City  pealing sign left over from the threatened Amtrak strikes in the 1990's when Penn Station would have been shut down, saying 'Notice: in the event of an Amtrak strike only L.I.C. Personnel with a valid parking permit will be allowed to park on the Premises-L.I.R.R Management', Long Island City was a big part of the contingency plans  Two DM-30 Locomotives at Long Island City: #520 is in the station, #419 is in the yard  DM-30 Locomotive #520 at the platform at Long Island City  Three DM-30 Locomotives in Long Island City, #520 is in the station, #419 and #410 are in the yard  Entrance to Long Island City  Three trains at LIC one with a door open for passengers haven't pulled fully up on the platform  A grade crossing on the -- branch that is electrified and leads to Long Island City  Stand-by Locomotive SW1001 #100 |
