Hillside Facility

Hillside Facility
Aerial view of maintenance facility and adjacent Holban Yard.
Location 93-59 183rd Street
Jamaica, Queens, New York
Coordinates 40°42′23″N 73°46′40″W / 40.70639°N 73.77778°W / 40.70639; -73.77778Coordinates: 40°42′23″N 73°46′40″W / 40.70639°N 73.77778°W / 40.70639; -73.77778
Line(s) Main Line
Platforms 2 side platforms (LIRR employees only)
Tracks 32
Other information
Fare zone No Fare
History
Opened 1991
Electrified 750 V (DC) third rail
Services
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station
Main Line
(Hempstead Branch)
(also Oyster Bay Branch,
Port Jefferson Branch,
and Ronkonkoma Branch)
Former services
Woodhull Park   Main Line   Willow Tree
Woodhull Park   Montauk Branch   Saint Albans

The Hillside Facility, also called the Hillside Support Facility or the Hillside Maintenance Complex, is a maintenance facility of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. The Hillside facility was built between 1984 and 1991[1] on the grounds of a section of Holban Yard, a railroad freight yard. The facility covers 30 acres (120,000 m2) east of the former Hillside station and can maintain 60 cars at a time.[1]

The facility includes a station which is the first stop along the Main Line of the LIRR east of Jamaica station. Like the Boland's Landing station west of Jamaica, the Hillside Facility station is for LIRR employees only.

Holban Yard

Holban Yard is a railroad freight yard for the Long Island Rail Road at Rockaway Junction near the current site of the Hillside Facility. It was built in 1906 and was named for the two communities of Hollis and St. Albans which bordered the yard along the Cedarhurst Cut-Off at the time of construction.[2] The northernmost segment of the yard extends from the sites of the former Rockaway Junction Station through the grounds of the former Willow Tree Station, which is the present site of the platforms for the Hillside Facility over the 183rd Street bridge,[3] with tracks extending east of the still operating Hollis Station. It continues to be used to hold work cars, and for work on various other MOW equipment. The yard is also used to store a trio of 1950s vintage Osgood Bradley passenger cars.

References

  1. 1 2 LIRR Official Hillside Facility brochure (Unofficial LIRR History Website)
  2. ↑ "JAMAICA STATION 3". arrts-arrchives.com.
  3. ↑ Hillside Hollis - Holban Yard to Milepost 12 (Bob Emery Map; TrainsAreFun)


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