[1] Two wooden platforms, each two cars long, exist on the two-track line, with a flashlight for workers to signal trains to stop.

Riverhead has one on the grounds of the Railroad Museum of Long Island, and Oyster Bay and Greenport yards have the others.

The Morris Park station was in service until 1939, when it was closed as part of the grade elimination project that replaced the surface railway with a tunnel beneath Atlantic Avenue.

Efforts by local residents and elected officials to allow for an underground Morris Park station were rejected by construction coordinator Robert Moses.

Prior to reconstruction in 2018–2020,[5] many of the Morris Park Locomotive Shop's structures had been originally built along with the rest of the facility in 1889.

[3] In May 2018, a contract to rebuild the shop was awarded to a joint venture of Railroad Construction Company Inc. and AMCC Corp.[10] The project was completed in November 2020[5] at a cost of nearly $102 million.