Approaching Storm. On the morning of February 1, while a powerful Nor'easter was slamming the NYC area, an inbound LIRR train arrives at Nostrand Avenue, splitting the two position light signals on the elevated structure. By 3 pm all LIRR, Metro-North, and above-ground subway service would be suspended due to the storm.
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.
