Morris Park Facility
Boland's Landing | ||||||||||||||||
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Queens, New York | ||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°41′45″N 73°49′19″W / 40.69583°N 73.82194°W | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Long Island Rail Road | |||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Atlantic Branch | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 side platforms (LIRR employees only) | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Connections | None | |||||||||||||||
Construction | ||||||||||||||||
Parking | Employees Only | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1886 (Passenger station) 1889 (Maintenance Yard) | |||||||||||||||
Closed | 1939 (Passengers only) | |||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 2009 | |||||||||||||||
Electrified | 750 V (DC) third rail | |||||||||||||||
Former passenger services | ||||||||||||||||
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The Morris Park Facility is a maintenance facility of the Long Island Rail Road in Queens, New York City. It includes two employee-only side platforms on the Atlantic Branch named Boland's Landing.[1] Two wooden platforms, each two cars long, exist on the two-track line, with a flashlight for workers to signal trains to stop.[2]
The facility opened on November 1, 1889.[3] Though used for train storage for over a century, it is mainly used for maintaining and refueling diesel locomotives and electro-diesel locomotives since the 1990s.[4]: 6 The locomotive roundhouse was renovated in 2018, with construction being completed in late 2020.[5]
Description
The Morris Park Facility covers about 21 acres (8.5 ha), and contains a locomotive shed and sidings for
The Morris Park Facility contains the Morris Park Locomotive Shop, a
History
The original Morris Park station was an 1886-built pedestrian depot located on 120th Street that served as a replacement for 1878-built Morris Grove station on 124th Street. It was torn down in 1939 as part of a grade elimination project for the Atlantic Branch.
In 2009, part of the back shops (the engine shops not located directly off the turntable) were demolished as part of a reconstruction project, however, the front shops and yard office from 1889 still exist.
Morris Grove station
Morris Grove station was originally a
The Morris Park station was in service until 1939, when it was closed as part of the grade elimination project that replaced the surface railway with a tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue. Efforts by local residents and elected officials to allow for an underground Morris Park station were rejected by construction coordinator Robert Moses.[8][9]
Shops station
Shops station was a sheltered shed on the
Locomotive shop reconstruction
Prior to reconstruction in 2018–2020,[5] many of the Morris Park Locomotive Shop's structures had been originally built along with the rest of the facility in 1889.[3] In May 2018, a contract to rebuild the shop was awarded to a joint venture of Railroad Construction Company Inc. and AMCC Corp.[10] The project was completed in November 2020[5] at a cost of nearly $102 million.[11]: 27 The original completion date was January 2020, but the completion was delayed because a new turntable contractor had been hired.[11]: 43
References
- ^ Atlantic/Far Rockaway[usurped]
- ISBN 978-1-55395-484-2. Retrieved July 6, 2006.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7385-3829-7. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
- ^ a b c d "STATEMENT OF BASIS LIRR Morris Park Repair & Richmond Hill Yards Site No. 241130" (PDF). New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. March 2015. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
- ^ a b c d "Morris Park Diesel Locomotive Shop". A Modern LI. April 6, 2018. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
- ^ "LIRR Station History". Archived from the original on May 26, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2010.
- ^ LIRR Notice for November 1, 1939
- ^ "Wants Station Reopened". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 12, 1940.
- ^ "Morris Park, Queens". Forgotten-NY. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ^ "LIRR Morris Park Diesel Locomotive Shop & Employee Facility". Railroad Construction Company. May 23, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
- ^ a b "Capital Program Oversight Committee Meeting" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. May 20, 2019. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
External links
- Media related to Morris Park Facility at Wikimedia Commons