200th Post!

It has been just short of nine months since this site's very first post went live.  Since then there have been 198 other posts covering everything from service disruptions to upcoming capital projects, stations, various MTA announcements, and the popular Interlocking Walkthroughs. Today marks post number 200, and I'd like to take a quick moment to thank all the people who've swung by and hopefully picked up a little bit of new information on how the LIRR works.


These first 200 posts have just barely begun to scratch the surface of the vast sea of moving parts that makes up the Long Island Rail Road we know and love.  The LIRR is constantly changing, and even over the course of the next 10 short years the LIRR will be going through some of the biggest changes in its 179 year history.  We are less than seven years away from the long awaited opening of East Side Access.  The LIRR will be expanding for the first time in decades and this new station will draw huge crowds.  There will also be massive changes for the railroad as it works yet another major terminal  into its huge weave of schedules.  Before that, many other capital projects will get underway and give the LIRR much needed wiggle room across most of its territory.

The LIRR will be undergoing a metamorphosis over the next couple of years, and hopefully I'll be right here breaking them all down (and hopefully you'll be here too!).

I have lots of big plans for the next 200 posts (including a project that I hope to take the bubble wrap off fairly soon).  If you have any suggestions or recommendations, feel free to shoot me a message--I'd really love to hear them.

If you've just recently started following the site, posts normally pop up at 6:00am in the morning (just in time for your morning commute).  If you subscribe to the site by e-mail, the last 24-hours worth of posts gets sent out just after 7am (any posts that appear after 7am are included in the next day's e-mail for some reason).  You can also add The LIRR Today to your favorite RSS reader.  You can also follow me on Twitter, where I post updates about new posts as well as some smaller musings/ramblings that don't always develop into full posts.

Again, my sincerest thanks to my regular readers, old and new.  I'm glad you're along for the ride.  All aboard!