Huntington sees first Penn Station-bound train post-strike
Inside an LIRR train bound for Penn Station from Huntington. Credit: Newsday/John Asbury
A sparsely occupied LIRR train marked the first to leave Huntington for Penn Station since just before midnight Friday.
The 12:17 p.m. train was five minutes late, but relatively normally, as passengers had to walk up the stairs to the opposite track.
LIRR workers returned to work, heading down the platform and aboard the train. Ticket takers walked down the aisles with the familiar sound of clicking hole punches.
“This is the train to Penn Station,” an announcement boomed inside the mostly empty train cars. “All tickets please. All tickets.”
John Asbury is a breaking news and general assignment reporter. He has been with Newsday since 2014 and previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.
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