ERA BULLETIN — JUNE, 2018 The Bulletin Electric Railroaders’ Association, Incorporated Vol. 61, No. 6 June, 2018 The Bulletin LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD MAIN LINE Published by the Electric Railroaders’ DOUBLE-TRACK PROJECT UPDATE Association, Inc. P.O. Box 3323 by Jeffrey Erlitz Grand Central Station New York, NY 10163 In the past few weeks the first actual vard grade crossing. changes to the operation of Main Line trains Very early in the morning of Monday, May 7 For general inquiries, or Bulletin submissions, has occurred as part of the Long Island Rail this new interlocking was placed in service. contact us at Road’s Main Line Double Track project. At the same time, the old CI1 and CI2 Inter-
[email protected] Starting at just past midnight on Monday, lockings (at the west and east ends of the or on our website at erausa.org/contact April 30, the Main Track from 300 feet west original passing siding, respectively) were of the west end of the Central Islip station to removed from service and the switches and Editorial Staff: the east end of the passing siding, east of all signals were removed. With this opera- Jeffrey Erlitz the Central Islip station, was taken out of ser- tion, the very first piece of new Main Line Editor-in-Chief vice. All trains were routed through the pass- second track was placed in service, from the ing siding which, under this project, will soon new CI Interlocking to just west of the Central Ronald Yee Tri-State News and become Track 1.