MTA Long Island Rail Road 3rd Track Main Line Action @ New Hyde Park (10/18/22)

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As of October 2022, the main line expansion project, which encompassed building a 3rd track between Floral Park and Hicksville, and accompanying station renovations has been largely completed. Enjoy the morning rush hour action as we set up at New Hyde Park. For now, the full potential of the added capacity will remain unutilized until East Side Access opens, upon which time the schedules will be completely overhauled and service increased substantially. Stay tuned =)

[@theamazinghippopotomonstro9942]

A battle the nimbys lost. So beautiful

[@nah_144]

It will be exciting to see how many trains will run on the Main Line when E.S.A opens.

[@musicforaarre]

Floral Park would be another very interesting point, as it is a conflict of routes. The westbound/inbound Hempstead trains are really going to have to fight against the flow of eastbound/outbound Main line trains on the 3rd track. I would like to know how that works; if you got Floral Park, Bellerose and Queens Interlocking, that could be very fascinating to see how the trains get around each other. IT MUST BE QUITE A CHOREOGRAPHY !! Both directions from Bellerose would probably be best. Aarre Peltomaa

[@winstonpx]

Lots of nice engineers during rush hour, interestingly

[@winstonpx]

So glad to see you back in NY

[@musicforaarre]

23:59 What's with the express eastbound on the center track ? The sun shadows show that it is still morning. Would you also do both AM and PM rush hour videos at Mineola showing the new strange track arrangement there; apparently all Oyster Bay trains now have to go through the north platform ? Aarre Peltomaa

[@TBF_1J]

I love the new third track!

[@musicforaarre]

Excellent !! Omitted time is an illogic; so what was your starting and finishing times of filming ? I assume that you filmed every train within that timespan; therefore, I could extrapolate how many trains went through per hour on each track in each direction. I assume that in the PM Peak hour, the middle track is all outbound trains, opposite to the AM Peak hour. Thanks so much, Aarre Peltomaa

[@FanRailer]

Was there from 6:30am to 9am

[@musicforaarre]

@@FanRailer Thanks. Aarre Peltomaa

[@karatekidfahim3]

what just happened in time segment 5:11?

[@abgcapital4597]

Can a regular freight train run on these tracks on its Diesel engines ?

[@kristintownes5077]

Long Island railroad R211

[@damiencao3166]

Cool!

[@villavine10]

Its done already?

[@mattkowal90]

The third track is fully completed, which means that all three tracks are in service at Hicksville, Westbury, Carle Place, Mineola, Merillon Avenue, New Hyde Park, and Floral Park, but infrastructure to stations is still ongoing. ADA-accessible pedestrian overpasses are still under construction at Westbury and Mineola, there's platform lighting, signage, and station houses that are still seeing work. What really matters is that the Main Line and stations have three operational bidirectional tracks.

[@rvouzs2x]

7:50 DID ANYONE SEE THAT!?