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[quote user="Murphy Siding"]      On another thread, the LIRR came up.  Knowing nothing about it,  I had to do some checking.  It appears to be mostly just a super busy commuter railroad, that was owned by PRR for a long time.  Is there much more to the story? [/quote] I lived in New York City from 1964 to 1972.  During the summer months, at least, the Long Island Railroad ran a train from NYC to Montauk.  It carried at least one and perhaps several parlor cars.  At the time I was newly married, and we could not afford to travel by parlor car, but heaps of wealthy New Yorkers did.  Many of them were headed to various spots in the Hampton's.  Montauk is considered to be in the east Hampton's.  It is approximately 100+ miles from Pennsylvania Station to Montauk, which comes as a surprise to many people who are not familiar with Long Island.
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