What kind of service does CSX have east of the Hudson River in NY? Do they run to Long Island? Any metro NYC customers? I know they haul some trash. What about up the Hudson? What did they haul for GM before it closed?
At the risk of being incorrect, I will try to give you an idea of what is left
for freight on the east side:
On the Hudson Line between Selkirk and Oak Point (NYC)
Hudson has cement and by products and maybe something else, served
a few times a week by a job out of Selkirk.
Poughkeepsie may have a lumber facility, I am not sure.
Croton West Yard - handles local stuff between Poughkeepsie and New
York of which there is not too much. Some work between Poughkeepsie
and Croton especially around Peekskill, the sugar house at Yonkers, a
siding or two around Ludlow and one or two sidings between Spuyten
Duyvil and Mott Haven.
Last I knew, a local out of the Croton West Yard served the two
remaining customers west of Bridgeport on the New Haven Line at night
these being at Mamaroneck and at Darien.
Don't know if there is anything left on the Harlem around the Mount
Vernon area or not.
At Oak Point there is still a fair amount of local business, sidings here and
there plus the Hunts Point Market which receives mechanical refers of
food etc and there is the garbage and related stuff that is loaded out of
Harlem River.
The interchange with the New York and Atlantic is still active and takes
place at Fremont (Fresh Pond area), a yard job out of Oak Point makes
that move.
The Canadian Pacific also handles freight to the area, mostly stuff for the
New York and Atlantic and I believe they run a train three nights a week
on a down one night and back the next night basis between Saratoga
Springs and Fremont with the power laying over at Fremont.
CSX runs a night train every night between Selkirk and Oak Point and they might run a garbage train too as required.
Moral of the story, enough for one good size train but not much left if you
compare it with years ago with many through freight trains on both the
New Haven and New York Central.
There is no regular through freight service on the former New Haven
Railroad into New York but in season, a stone train operated by the
Providence and Worcester under a trackage rights agreement does run
from Cedar Hill (New Haven) to Fremont, often on a weekend.
That is about all I can help you with.
Noel Weaver