"Dropping Rail at Nostrand Ave"
Long Island Railroad's RFX4 rail reclaim train holds at Nostrand Avenue on the Atlantic Branch as new rail is unloaded off of the tail end of the train during the morning of January 16th, 2021. The new rail will be used for future projects and emergency rail replacement if needed.
The rail reclaim train picks up old rails along the right of way to send out for scrap and recycling. The train was also used to drop small sections of new rail where a normal Continuous Welded Rail train would not fit. The train consists of LIRR's only two running EMD SW1001s (103 & 105) for power and 7 open-ended gondolas. These moves mark the first time a diesel has ran on the Atlantic Branch east of East New York in 4 years and prior to that, over a decade.
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