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Discussion related to NYAR operations on Long Island. Official web site can be found here: www.anacostia.com/nyar/nyar.html. Also includes discussion related to NYNJ Rail, the carfloat operation successor to New York Cross Harbor that connects with NYAR.
 #539888  by Amtrak7
 
After reading the oldNYC tour of the Bushwick branch, it looks in terrible condition. What customers does this line serve and how frequent are movements? I know that they put back the crossbucks, but what about the pavement surfaces (metal plates)

 #539967  by DogBert
 
mostly trash - C&D debris from waste management & that other customer by the scott av footbridge + lumber & brick or whatever is going into the Bush Team track at the end of the line. the line used to be run at night, no idea what's the current operation & how the customers are doing.

I'd assume with the downturn in real estate there might be less C&D coming out and less lumber going in. City building permits are down 50% compared to last year... is this effecting the RR at all?
 #862285  by Teutobergerwald
 
Caught a Fresh Pond-bound train, mostly boxcars, this morning around 1130 crossing over Flushing Avenue. By chance I just happened to be there. Didn't see the power, but I assume it was an SW-1001 or MP-15ac. It was the first time seeing the recently installed flashers at the crossings activated.
 #862644  by R36 Combine Coach
 
Recently the Bloomberg administration opened a new Sanitation transfer station on the Branch that would sort waste from most of Brooklyn into containers and then load them onto trains to out-of-state locations.
 #1074260  by DogBert
 
Old thread, but worth revisiting. I pass through this area often.

The bush has gotten a bit more busy over the past few months. Aside from WM's MSW operation (yields anywhere from 5 to 15 cars a day, 5-6 days a week), there's a customer that gets an occasional boxcar at the end of stewart ave (street dead ends right at the track, acts as a loading dock), and someone getting cables and pipes at the front of the old Bushwick yard, btw. Morgan ave and kings lumber. They come in with a truck and rented crane to unload the gons and lumber flats. There seem to be 4-5 cars in there every time I pass. Kings lumber now has a ready mix facility that receives some of the tilcon stone cars.
I believe western beef is also still taking reefers, though their siding is a bit away from the streets.

The large, newish building on Varick ave opposite WM which had a new siding put in maybe a year ago still has not taken a car, so far as I can see. Also haven't seen tankers next to that building east of Morgan ave in a long time. Overall though things seem up, just on the ready mix customer alone.
 #1074287  by mikey cruz
 
Now that the newer float facility in Bklyn is in use hopefully everyone will start gettin more cars, as long as prices & travel times go down of course.