At Divide Interlocking, just east of Hicksville Station, the LIRR's mainline curves to the southeast, while the Port Jefferson Branch diverts to the northeast. Here, a westbound train from Huntington meets an eastbound headed for Ronkonkoma with a daytime moon looming overhead.
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.
