Hillside Facility

Hillside Facility
File:HillsideViewEast.jpg View east from station overpass over yard tracks. Platforms far left.
Location	Hollis, Queens
Coordinates
Line(s)	Main Line:
Platforms	2 side platforms (open to LIRR employees only)
Tracks	32
Other information
Fare zone	No Fare
History
Opened	1991
Electrified	750 V (DC) third rail
Services
Preceding station   LIRR   Following station Jamaica toward New York terminals Main Line (Hempstead Branch) (also Oyster Bay Branch, Port Jefferson Branch, and Ronkonkoma Branch) Hollis toward Greenport, Hempstead, Oyster Bay, or Port Jefferson Current and former locations Woodhull Park station Main Line Willow Tree station Current and former locations Woodhull Park station Montauk Branch Saint Albans station

The Hillside Facility, also called the Hillside Support Facility or the Hillside Maintenance Complex, is a maintenance facility of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in Hollis, Queens in New York City. The Hillside facility was built between 1984 and 1991 on the grounds of a section of Holban Yard (see below). The facility covers 30 acres (120,000 m²) east of the former Hillside station and can maintain 60 cars at a time.

The facility includes a station which is the first stop along the Main Line of the LIRR east of Jamaica station. Like the Morris Park Facility west of Jamaica station, the Hillside Facility station is for LIRR employees only.

Holban Yard

Holban Yard is a railroad freight yard for the Long Island Rail Road at Rockaway Junction in Hollis, Queens, New York City. It was built in 1906 and was named for the two communities of Hollis and St. Albans which bordered the yard along the Cedarhurst Cut-Off at the time of construction. The northernmost segment of the yard extends from the sites of the former Rockaway Junction Station through the grounds of the former Willow Tree Station, which is the present site of the platforms for the Hillside Facility over the 183rd Street bridge, with tracks extending east of the still operating Hollis Station.

External links

• LIRR station page for Hillside
• Image from four tracks (Unofficial LIRR history website)
• Image from Liberty Avenue (Picasaweb)

File:LIRR Hillside Platform and Pedestrian Bridge.JPG

The Hillside Facility as seen from an Atlantic Terminal-bound train.