Morris Park Facility

Bolands Landing
LIRR Employees Only
The roundhouse and turntable.
General information
LocationRichmond Hill, Queens, New York
Coordinates40°41′45″N 73°49′19″W / 40.69583°N 73.82194°W / 40.69583; -73.82194
Owned byLong Island Rail Road
Line(s)Atlantic Branch
Platforms2 side platforms (LIRR employees only)
Tracks2
ConnectionsNone
Construction
ParkingEmployees Only
History
Opened1886 (Passenger station)
1889 (Maintenance Yard)
Closed1939 (Passengers only)
Rebuilt2009
Electrified750 V (DC) third rail
Former passenger services
Preceding station Long Island Rail Road Following station
Clarenceville
toward Atlantic Terminal
 Atlantic Branch Dunton
toward Valley Stream
Richmond Hill
toward Long Island City
 Montauk Branch Dunton
toward Montauk
Location
Map

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]

  1. ^ Atlantic/Far Rockaway[usurped]
  2. ^ Ruppert, Dan (2002). The Gravy Train: An Inside Look at the Long Island Rail Road. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-55395-484-2. Retrieved July 6, 2006.
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