Little Ferry Yard

Road and NYSW mainline in Babbitt

Little Ferry Yard is a railyard and intermodal terminal in the Port of New York and New Jersey served by the CSX River Subdivison (CSXT),[1] New York Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYSW),[2] Norfolk Southern Railway[3] and Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CRCX).[4]

Originally developed by NYSW it was later acquired CSX.[5][6] Located in Ridgefield, New Jersey and extending into Ridgefield Park, it takes it name from the town of Little Ferry across the Hackensack and has a street address in Babbitt, North Bergen, from where it is accessible by road. It is situated at the confluence of the Hackensack River and Overpeck Creek nearby the Bergen Generating Station and the Vince Lombardi Park and Ride of the New Jersey Turnpike.

South of the facility the River Subdivision continues to the North Bergen Yard, where it terminates. Travelling slightly further the NYSW mainline terminates at the Landbrige Terminal at the Jersey City border. The NYSW Undercliff Junction provides access to spur to the unused Edgewater Tunnel.[7]

The lines cross north over Overpeck Creek. CSX has a two-track swing bridge.[8] As of 2015, the NYS&W bridge was slated for replacement.[9][10][11][12][13]

Numerous studies to restore passenger service on have been conducted, but not materialized.[14] The River Subdvison continues along the original West Shore Railroad alignment through Bergen County and Rockland County, New York[7] reaching the Hudson River after passing through a tunnel at Haverstraw. It continues north to a point near Selkirk Yard where it junctions with the Port Subdivision and Castleton Subdivision. At Bogota the NYSW veers west crossing the Hackensack, and at Paterson, the Passaic River to Sparta, crossing the state line into New York at Warwick.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "CSX in New Jersey". CSX. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
  2. ↑ "North Bergen, New Jersey". NYSW. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
  3. ↑ "Ridgefield Heights Auto Terminal" (PDF). Norfolk Southern. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
  4. ↑ "Regional Intermodal Rail Facilities". Guide to Port of New York and New Jersey. PANYNJ. 2012. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  5. ↑ Kaminski, Edward S. (2010), New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway in New Jersey, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7385-7367-0
  6. ↑ VILLAGE OF RIDGEFIELD PARK v. NEW YORK SUSQUEHANNA AND WESTERN RAILWAY CORPORATION (Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division Dec. 2, 1998 - February 17, 1999) (“In 1991 the railroad sold its Little Ferry Yard and railroad terminal to CSX Rail Systems (CSX) for twenty-one million dollars so it could “benefit from additional rail traffic from the CSX operations into the Ridgefield site.”   After the sale, CSX  refused to allow the railroad to continue its refueling and light-maintenance operations at the Little Ferry site at the Borough of Ridgefield.   This required the railroad to relocate its so-called “light-maintenance” facility to its approximately 125-foot right-of-way located in the Village, where some side-track was added.”). Text
  7. 1 2 3 "New Jersey's Rail Network" (PDF). NJDOT. November 15, 2012. Retrieved 2013-10-04.
  8. ↑ Tofani, Anthony R. Tofani (June 20, 2005). "Little Ferry, NJ - Then & Now". gsmrr. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
  9. ↑ "CSX - Overpeck Creek Bridge (1901)". Bridgehunter. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  10. ↑ "CSX - Overpeck Creek Bridge/NYS&W Overpeck Creek Bridge". Bridgehunter. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  11. ↑ Maag, Christopher (February 4, 2015). "Train bridge over Overpeck Creek in Ridgefield Park to be replaced". The Record. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  12. ↑ "NJDOT awards $5.1 million in rail and community-based grants in Bergen and Passaic counties" (Press release). NJDOT. February 4, 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2016. NJDOT also is awarding a $4.3 million grant to replace the rail bridge spanning the Overpeck Creek in Ridgefield Park, Bergen County. The bridge serves as a critical link for freight rail in the region with an average of 25,000 rail cars traversing the bridge each year. It was originally built in the early 1900s with three spans – a north approach, a south approach, and a center span. The north and south approaches were rehabilitated in 1985. This project will replace all three spans with a new steel bent system and steel superstructure, as well as new steel and concrete abutments on the north and south sides.
  13. ↑ http://intransitionmag.org/Winter_2016/OneRail-sidebar.aspx
  14. ↑ Maag, Christopher (November 29, 2015). "A train delay for the ages: boosting service in Bergen County among stalled plans". The Record. Retrieved 20 January 2015.

Coordinates: 40°50′22″N 74°01′28″W / 40.8394444°N 74.0244444°W / 40.8394444; -74.0244444 (Little Ferry Yard)

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