Editing Long Island Rail Road (section)

=== Additional services ===
[[File:Shea Stadium (LIRR).jpg|alt=The Mets-Willets Point station, located on the Port Washington Branch.|thumb|The Mets-Willets Point station.]]
In addition to its daily commuter patronage, the LIRR also offers the following services:
*The railroad operates extra trains during the summer season that cater to the Long Island beach trade. Special package ticket deals are offered to places like [[Long Beach, New York|Long Beach]], [[Jones Beach State Park|Jones Beach]], [[the Hamptons]], [[Montauk, New York|Montauk]], and [[Greenport, Suffolk County, New York|Greenport]]. Some of these packages require bus and ferry connections.
*The railroad operates extra trains to and from [[Atlantic Terminal]] for [[Brooklyn Nets]] home games at [[Barclays Center]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mta.info/press-release/lirr/lirr-double-service-new-york-islanders-games-compared-start-last-season |title=LIRR to Double Service to New York Islanders Games Compared With Start of Last Season |access-date=January 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202025537/http://www.mta.info/press-release/lirr/lirr-double-service-new-york-islanders-games-compared-start-last-season |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*From May through October, the railroad runs four daily trains to [[Belmont Park]] (two in each direction) during the racetrack's summer meets. Additionally, on the day of the [[Belmont Stakes]] horse race the railroad runs extra trains to accommodate the large number of spectators attending the event.<ref>[http://web.mta.info/lirr/Timetable/Branch/BelmontPark.pdf Belmont Park Timetable April 29, 2015 to May 17, 2015] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150424232945/http://web.mta.info/lirr/Timetable/Branch/BelmontPark.pdf |date=April 24, 2015 }}</ref>
*One special non-passenger service offered by the railroad was the yearly operation of the [[Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus]] train between Long Island City and [[Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum]] in Uniondale. Highly publicized by the LIRR, this event drew large crowds of spectators.<ref name="youtube.com">{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/v/sn7MuhO8JCQ |title=MTA LIRR: Assembling the 2015 Ringling Brothers Circus Train to Depart LI |website=[[YouTube]] |access-date=April 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310211932/https://www.youtube.com/v/sn7MuhO8JCQ |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> With Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey's closure, this was discontinued in May 2017.