# Talk:Cannonball (LIRR train)

Here's a reminder of other trains named "Cannonball" or "Cannon Ball." ---------User:DanTD (talk)  21:23, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

See Talk:Port Washington Branch#Milage and Talk:Long Island Rail Road#Mileage. The mileage numbers used in this article are (through no fault of its own) wrong in two ways:

The distance given for Jamaica (9.3 miles) is the distance from Jamaica to Long Island City via the Main Line, not to Penn. That distance is actually 11.3 miles.
The distances for the Montauk Branch stations are all computed to Long Island City via the Montauk Branch, so they're all off by a little under two miles.
The actual distance from Penn to Montauk, looking at a 1945 Official Guide (unsuitable for this article, we need something modern), is around 117.4 miles. Mackensen (talk) 10:23, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

A reference of the name for this train coming from the jazz sax player is only from a single newpaper article sentence from Pennsylvania.  And, the first topic on this talk page enumerates many trains around the USA with the name Cannonball in them.  And, the history part of the article enumerates several trains on this very line with Cannonball in the name, most predating the birth of Cannonball Adderley.  Thus it was not named after the famous jazz sax player. Dr.gregory.retzlaff (talk) 01:51, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Maybe his name mentioned. FairfieldAve (talk) 03:49, 5 August 2024 (UTC)