The Dashing Dan. A last minute track change moved Train 6016 to Track 8 in Jamaica on Sunday, August 30, 2020, enabling this view of the eight car train of recently built M9s (9040 leading). The M9s are now starting to show up on all MTA LIRR lines around the clock. "Jay" Tower has been out of service since 2010, but the building still stands as a useful landmark for the scene.
The nation's busiest passenger railroad depends every day on a fleet of nearly 1,000 multiple unit cars to bring hundreds of thousands of commuters to and from their jobs.