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In recent years there has been some appreciation of the need for better railroad freight service in [[New York City]] and elsewhere on [[Long Island]]. Both areas are primarily served by trucking for freight haulage, an irony in a region with the most extensive rail transit service in the Americas.
Freight service is now operated on lease by the [[New York and Atlantic Railway]], a short line railroad owned by the [[Anacostia and Pacific Company]]. It has its own equipment and crews, but uses the rail facilities of the LIRR. To the east, freight service operates to the ends of the West Hempstead, Port Jefferson and Montauk branches, and to Southold on the Mainline. On the western end it provides service on the surviving freight-only tracks of the LIRR: the Bay Ridge and Bushwick branches; the nearly freight-only "Lower Montauk"; and to
==Long Island Rail Road Massacre==
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