New York New Jersey Rail, LLC
Reporting mark	NYNJ
Locale	New York Harbor
Dates of operation	2006–
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge)
Headquarters	Brooklyn, New York
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New York New Jersey Rail, LLC (reporting mark NYNJ) is a switching and terminal railroad^[1] that operates the only car float operation across New York Harbor between Jersey City, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York. Since mid-November 2008, it has been owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which acquired it for about $16 million as a step in a process that might see a Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel completed. Since freight trains are not allowed in Amtrak's North River Tunnels, and the Poughkeepsie Bridge was closed in 1974, the ferry is the only freight crossing of the Hudson River south of the Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge, 140 miles (230 km) to the north of New York City (see Selkirk hurdle).^[2]

Contents 1 Operations 2 History 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Operations

NYNJ leases approximately 27 acres (11 ha) of land at Conrail's Greenville Yard in Greenville, Jersey City, where it connects with two Class I railroads - CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway - which jointly operate Conrail's North Jersey Shared Assets Area. On the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn end, the 6-acre (2.4 ha) Bush Terminal Yard connects to the New York and Atlantic Railway's Bay Ridge Branch and the South Brooklyn Railway.

The 2.5 mile barge trip across the harbor takes approximately 45 minutes. The equivalent truck trip would be 35 to 50 miles. ^[3]

[edit] History

From 1983 to 2006, the operation was known as the New York Cross Harbor Railroad (reporting mark NYCH). Earlier predecessors include the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Company, Bush Terminal Railroad, New York Dock Railway, and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad operations at Bay Ridge and Greenville.

In 2002, New York Cross Harbor Railroad revenues from railroad operations were $ 1,685,899. It had 48 active customers, with shipments of cocoa from docks in Brooklyn as its largest line of business. It also ran a trucking service and offered shipside and dockside service for receipt or delivery of various types of cargo, such as oversized steel beams.^[3]

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Since acquiring the NYNJ in late 2008, the Port Authority has been working with government agencies in New York and New Jersey to bring the NYNJ to a state of good repair. This includes emergency work to stabilize the transfer bridge structure in Greenville, repairs to the float bridge and track infrastructure in Brooklyn, procurement of ultra-low emissions locomotives and procurement of a new 30-car rail barge.[1]

[edit] See also

• New York Central Railroad 69th Street Transfer Bridge

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• NYNJR
• Fan Site
• NYCH image gallery at archive.org

Coordinates: 40°40′44″N 74°4′25″W / 40.67889°N 74.07361°W / 40.67889; -74.07361

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