I absolutely love this story but I have to admit that when I first started reading it, saying that LIRR was a subway train really bothered me too. But post #9 by vladimir998 has another version of the story that explains it all. He rode the LIRR and switched to a subway train. Makes a whole lot more sense to someone who lived in NY for many years. But even that small detail shouldn’t detract from a wonderful story about God’s continued involvement in our lives.
Actually, way back when, I remember that there was a Long Island Railway train that picked up commuters on the North Shore of Long Island, and then when it approached the city went underground into the subway. So it was both a commuter train AND a subway train.