New York Subway freight connection with outside world?

Seems that I heard that MOW equipment and new cars has to be trucked in that the connection is OOS...Seems that I have seen NYC subway cars flying down I-81 to the city via flatbed.

South Brooklyn Railway is the outside connection.

See Current Status - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Brooklyn_Railway

I'm surprised - I always assumed there was a connection in Yonkers.

Nope. There, and there's another one at the linden shops along the Bay Ridge Branch. See:

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Used for getting deliveries of rail, ties, etc.

There used to be more, but those are gone now.

What remains of the South Brooklyn RY is connected to NJNY,and NY&A at Bay Ridge,used for the Subway Diesel loco deliveries.
Unionport Yard(Bronx) might have been a New Haven/NYW&B interchange in the past.
The other possible connection is from the Bay Ridge Branch at Livonia ave area /Linden ave shop connection(IRT/BMT)
Subway cars were on flatcars went moved on the RR's,some of the newer cars have been moved as "High-Wide" loads on lowboy trailers.

Backshophoss wrote:Unionport Yard(Bronx) might have been a New Haven/NYW&B interchange in the past.

When the NYW&B was abandoned and its Bronx trackage became the NYCTA's Dyre Avenue Line, a single track connection was left in place between the NH Harlem River branch (which had been used by the Westchester) and the new subway branch via the original NYW&B viaduct. This rail/subway connection was used for delivery of some or all of the IRT Redbirds as documented by a news photo that appeared in the early 1960s in Trains Magazine. I don't know when the Bronx connection was removed, but it was quite a few years ago.

mohawkrailfan wrote:I'm surprised - I always assumed there was a connection in Yonkers.

That's random.

Subway cars don't get moved on their own wheels, but they are often shipped by rail on heavy duty flatcars.

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I could be wrong - but isn't there a coupler issue?