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Today, in 2020, NYAR has only one active customer on the Port Jeff line:
Kleet Lumber. Virtually none throughout Nassau county unless somebody
moves again to the Hicksville Team yard. The Central Branch has one world
recycling which ships out C&D, and takes in stone and lumber. All the
other costumers on Central Branch are gone along with West Hempstead and
Montauk Branch (Freeport team). Thus, leaving the mainline with the bulk
freight activity out in Suffolk. NYA controls the Bay Ridge and Bushwick
Branch tracks with perhaps growth potential. |
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![]() LIRR 'Green' locomotives on the way - Newsday 9/26/2018 Archive: Dave Morrison |
![]() LIRR Should Run Own Freight Service - Newsday 3/06/2018 Archive: Dave Morrison |
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![]() New York & Atlantic Railway - Railroads Illustrated April, 2012 Photos/Article: William Skeats |
![]() MP15AC #166-165 Work Extra bringing back one of the few remaining concrete tie cars in Port Jefferson. The growing weeds at Greenlawn have been recently cut back, which allowed for a nice wide angle at Lake Road, Greenlawn. 10/20/2022 Photo/Archive: Patrick Hines |
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Farmingdale - Coastal Distribution, LLC | |||
Coastal is one of NY&A's largest customers. It loads about 10-15 gondolas 6 days a week. I believe it has its own trucks (I've seen at least 5 tractor trailers) and its own railcars (CDEX cars). It is an empties-in/loads-out operation. It may recycle some metal found in the debris that the tractor trailers bring in, but the majority of the waste is C&D (sheetrock, lumber, etc.) This is what the corrugated steel shed on the east leg of the wye houses. The trucks dump their loads and then in it is loaded by grapple and loaders into the high side gondolas for disposal in landfills. (Sent to Ohio, I believe.) The west wye leg crosses New Highway and enters the fenced property through a gate. Coastal Distribution. However, currently, switching is performed on the east leg of the wye only. Loads are pulled out, then the empties are shoved in, both on the east leg of the wye. It doesn't make sense to put the emptied through the west leg, as the engines are on the wrong end of the drag. Usually the job that switches coastal takes care of business there, then either continues east to Wyandanch to switch the container customer before heading back west, or they just run around at Farmingdale and head back from there.
A new
longer siding has been laid north of the team track and it looks like it
extends far enough west to reach a sand and gravel lot.
The wye goes back to the early 20th century, c.1916, when Bloch and Guggenheimer (B&G) Pickle's siding occupied the west wye leg site area followed by Republic Aviation during WW II, when in full swing, building fighter planes for the war effort. As the LIRR rules prevented steam engines from running tender first on the main line, the wye was essential for turning them for the westbound runs. The building was later used as a warehouse.
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![]() Farmingdale track view E |
![]() NYA Farmingdale at New Highway Map 3/20/2013 Note: Indicates previous razed B&G siding |
West view Farmingdale wye 3/18/2013 |
![]() Farmingdale new switch view W from New Hwy 3/23/2013 |
![]() Coastal Distribution gate west leg of wye view NE across New Hwy. 3-18-2013 |
![]() Coastal Distribution view S 3/23/2013 |
![]() Farmingdale turnout ready for installation view W 3/23/2013 |
![]() Farmingdale concrete plant view W end of new sidings 3/23/20133 |
![]() Coastal Distribution view S 3/23/2013 |
![]() Farmingdale wye view W the old and new turnout for the teamtrack 3/18/2013 |
![]() Farmingdale wye view W new siding for Coastal Distribution 3/18/2013 |
![]() Farmingdale switch into concrete siding view E 3/23/2013 |
![]() Farmingdale concrete plant view W from New Hwy 3/23/2013 |
![]() Farmingdale concrete plant off loading site under construction view W 3/23/2013 |
![]() Farmingdale concrete plant view NW 3/23/2013 |
![]() Farmingdale ex-B&G Pickle Co. and Republic Warehouse view E 3/23/2013 Note: The previous razed siding loading docks. |
All photo/information above Steven Rothaug, unless
otherwise noted. |
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![]() NYA RS51 Pinelawn Station 7/16/2022 |
New York and Atlantic’s RS51 clears Lawn Interlocking with a nice looking three unit elephant style consist. The crew seen here makes the run around move at Costal Distribution LLC. The engineer will swap from the eastbound NYA 268, to NYA 300 to make the westbound trip to Fresh Pond Yard. Info/Photo/Archive: Benjamin Lederer | ||
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Blissville Yard, Maspeth | |||
![]() NYA #106 Blissville Yard 8/06/2004 Photo/Archive: Joe Tischner |
![]() NYA #106, #159 Blissville Yard View NW 9/06/2009 Photo/Archive: Dietrich Ryan |
![]() NYA #106, #159 under Greenpoint Ave. Blissville 9/06/2009 Photo/Archive: Dietrich Ryan |
![]() Blissville 10/30/2021 concrete pad pour in place. |
![]() A Waste Management shuttlewagon hauls a cut of empty trash containers from Bliss Yard towards the Review Avenue transfer facility along the Lower Montauk Line in Long Island City at Greenpoint Avenue. 5/02/2022 view N Photo/Archive: Greg Grice |
![]() Blissville - ZemRock sign View NW 5/13/2022 |
![]() Blissville 5/13/2022 |
![]() Blissville office - SOXX hoppers 5/13/2022 |
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![]() LIRR #271 & 156 1/24/2001 Pine Aire, Train RS60 Photo: William Skeats |
![]() NYA #151 and NYA #101 eastbound Smithtown 10/2001 Photo: John Volpi |
![]() NYA #261 & # 151 with the Railbox car have been turned. The train backs up to couple up to the remaining cars. 2/04/2006 Photo: John Volpi |
![]() Pulver Gas Bridgehampton Plant & Fuel Station Sign Photo: Mike McDermet |
![]() RS #303 Amco Plastics, Farmingdale 1/15/2005 |
![]() NYA #151 Deer Park, Train RS40 done switching Southern Container and Tanger Outlets C&D-tree waste 03/01/2007 Photo: William J. Skeats |
![]() Islip westbound at ex-84 Lumber 3/16/2012 Photo: Glen Johnson |
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![]() Carfloat #278 with 14 car load, 40 min. trip 11/13/2014 Photo: Richard Perry - NY Times |
![]() NYA 65th St. View E 11/13/2014 Photo: Richard Perry - NY Times |
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PARACO GAS![]() Paraco Gas Riverhead view N 2017 |
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![]() Paraco Gas view E 1/27/2017 Photo: Steve Rothaug |
![]() Paraco Gas propane tanks view E 1/27/2017 Photo: Steve Rothaug |
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Paraco has three spots for LPG tank car unloading on their siding; located at 44 Kroemer Ave., Riverhead. The eight white tanks have a capacity of 30,000 gallons of propane, but are not filled all the way to allow for expansion. I was told they are filled with about 28,000 gallons. Info: Steve Rothaug | |||
![]() RS70 arrives at MP71 to switch out Paraco gas in Riverhead NY. After
they cleared the Kromer Ave crossing, the engineer switched ends to the
261, got their new Form A card and Form K card from Divide and switched
out Paraco gas. Paraco employees wasted no time unloading the tank cars
once they were spotted in the siding.
Photo/Archive: Benjamin Lederer
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![]() Calverton - After switching out Paraco Gas, 2/21/2022 RS71 makes it way back to Pine Aire Yard. Photo/Archive: Benjamin Lederer |
![]() RS71 with pickup of 3 empty center beams from Sherwood lumber on the way back. 2/21/2022 Photo/Archive: Benjamin Lederer |
![]() KO11E is famous as the last manual block position light signal in the country. 2/21/2022 Photo/Archive: Benjamin Lederer |