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| Montauk is the terminus of the Long Island Railroad and is by far the eastern most point on the LIRR and MTA rail system. It's a whopping 117 miles from Penn Station, if you were to go north to Connecticut you would be slightly farther east of New London. If Long Island wasn't an island Amtrak would definately operate service this far away, it's Hiawatha corridor (the shortest corridor service) from Chicago to Milwalkee is only 96 miles long. The terminal station itself has a small rail yard and a very long and narrow island platform that only has a ramp up to it at one end along the bumper blocks and is canopied for about three of the cars of a train. The platform is long enough to even have all telve cars of the longest C3 train, The Canonball Express (Friday afternoons year round, non-stop from Hunterspoint Avenue to Jamaica to West Hampton) platform, at most East End stations the platforms can maybe accomodate six cars. |
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| (montauk1) EMD DM30AC Locomotive #519 at one end of a train of C3s that sits idol along one side of the platform at Montauk. 18 May, 2008 (montauk2) A Montauk Station sign facing the platform along the tracks, the green shubbery that is found in most of the area is visible beyond the sign. | | ||
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| (montauk5) EMD DM30AC Diesel Locomotive #522 continues to enter Montauk to enter service with bike riders from the Montauk Century Bike Tour waiting for it on a very crowded narrow island platform. 18 May, 2008 |
