LIRR using viaduct area to store materials
Photo credit: Judy Cartwright | Lindenhurst Village Clerk Shawn Cullinane near the piles of construction material stored beneath the viaduct that runs through the middle of the village. (Feb. 7, 2012)
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A three-block section under the Long Island Rail Road viaduct in Lindenhurst has turned into a storage area for the railroad's construction materials -- steel girders, concrete blocks, even a crane. Village officials say they weren't consulted about the storage and they've been asking the LIRR to move it somewhere else. They haven't had success.
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