NYNJ Rail Bay Ridge Brooklyn

New York New Jersey Rail at the Bay Ridge Yard Between 2nd Ave & NY Harbor. This Engine is parked overnight at 41St & 1st Ave at the Bush Terminal Yard. It runs thru the center of 1st Ave to 58 St and goes thru "BAT" Brooklyn Army Terminal and exits at the location in this video "Bay Ridge Yard" where it interchanges with "NYA" New York & Atlantic" that handles the freight operations of the "LIRR" Long Island Railroad.

[@mikeferguson7131]

The biggest troop movement thru the Brooklyn Army Terminal before D Day came along 4th Ave from Mamhattan in a convoy of TRUCKS that lasted for hours. The public was not allowed past 2nd Ave. The tanks that went over the bridges were staggered 3 max at equal distances because of weight. It was a sight. I was 10 years old...

[@delgadop197a]

Thanks for the info. There once was a bridge across these tracks before the Brooklyn Army Terminal Was built

[@mikeferguson7131]

The bridges I speak about are the Brooklyn and Manhattan. The troops came as units to Manhattan from all over to Penn and Grand Central stations and loaded on to army trucks. I worked at the Bethlehem Steel Shipyard at 56th Street in the 50s. I don't recognize most of 1st Ave now.

[@kennethtaylor2355]

@@mikeferguson7131 my grandfather worked in the Navy Yard around that time in the 50s he worked 30 years down there he retired in the early 1970s ...

[@arifakyuz7673]

What is the purpose of that locomotive?

[@delgadop197a]

it takes freight cars to and from New jersey to Long Island from a barge that crosses ny Harbor

[@marshallsobin4879]

Is this part of the SOUTH BROOKLYN RAILWAY and if so , is that part of the TA?

[@blankface_]

When does this come by?

[@tfs4499]

COOL VIDEO! WHERE DOES A PERSON FIND A PATCH OR BASEBALL CAP FROM THIS RAILROAD?

[@delgadop197a]

New York New Jersey Rail, LLC (reporting mark NYNJ) is a switching and terminal railroad[1] that operates the only car float operation across Upper New York Bay 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

[@robertdipaola3447]

@@delgadop197a hey Pete, that cross harbor tunnel would be a game- changer for the entire NYC and metropolitan area, it would relieve truck traffic, relieving the GWB as the buisest bridge in the world, even better if they re- electrified the line as it use to be, zero carbon emissions, hope they build it, it could be funded by private bonds investors ,by the public and business that would profit, as well as by and through the port authority, here's for hoping!!!

[@robertdipaola3447]

@@delgadop197a also, there is a direct link to hunts point at oak point railyards that the cross harbor rail tunnel would replace all that truck traffic

[@DESO718]

They do some weird stuff sometimes.

[@robertbowman3406]

In the beginning the engine crew takes the engine & goes for a ride to the end of the yard, and then comes right back on the same track.The guy in green gets off the engine, it passes by and stops, he then get on the front and his partner is hiding in the brush. I wonder why the guy in green did not walk along the catwalk to the front of the loco in the first place.

[@professorjamesmoriarty5191]

@@robertbowman3406 That's easy, the crew knew this would be on youtube so they decided to act out a Benny Hill sketch.

[@ilookupskirts]

how did the troop trains get to the army marine terminal, where did they originate?

[@thrashakilla]

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