As clouds begin to part and let rays of sunlight through, Long Island Rail Road Hempstead Branch train 752, with Kawasaki M9 railcars, passes Hollis Station as it heads east down the Main Line in Queens, NY. While this train normally stops here, it bypassed the station on this day to accommodate work on the west end of the platform (not visible from this angle) in support of the railroad’s "ADA Package 2" project, which is currently in its early stages. Hollis is one of the few remaining LIRR stations with wooden platforms, a feature that will soon vanish as part of the same project.
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.
