The Long Island Rail Road will not be able to install batteries on existing trains so that they can operate where tracks are not electrified, as it had hoped to do. Fifteen months after the LIRR began ...

A Presidential Emergency Board commissioned by the Trump administration issued the non-binding recommendation of 14% in ...

OYSTER BAY, Long Island (WABC) -- The Long Island Rail Road announced Monday it will test batteries that could enable electric trains to travel on the railroad's diesel branches. MTA LIRR President ...

Unions representing nearly half of the Long Island Rail Road workforce are on track for a potential strike following a breakdown in contract negotiations Without an intervention from the White House, ...

New trains, longer station platforms, modern signals and fresh coats of paint on bridges are included in the $5.7 billion that the LIRR stands to receive in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s ...

New Long Island Rail Road President Helena Williams confirmed critics' complaints Thursday about poor diesel train service. Williams met with members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's ...

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and other unions representing engineers on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) overwhelmingly voted on Monday to go on strike — but not for a ...