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A case of the Mondays: LIRR commuters vent

Quick ReadRegular commuters, visitors from out of town and others were all swept up in Monday's LIRR service outage.

Westbound commuters wait for a train at the

Photo credit: Joseph D. Sullivan | Westbound commuters wait for a train at the Ronkonkoma station after a fire near Jamaica station created major delays, Monday. (Aug. 23, 2010)

Regular commuters, visitors from out of town and others were all swept up in Monday's Long Island Rail Road service outage. Here's how they made it through.

Ray Healey, 54, of Greenlawn, a salesman for Canon in Manhattan, spent more than two hours on a trip from Penn Station to Port Washington, where he waited for his wife to pick him up. In his 14 years of weekday commuting, this was the...

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