Long Island Rail Road Atlantic Shuttle train 8913, with Kawasaki M9 railcars (often called "sloths" for their headlight arrangement), heads west past Dunton Tower on the Atlantic Branch in the Richmond Hill area of Queens, New York, on the cold afternoon of February 9, 2025.
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.