elan201 wrote:I biked here a few years ago - I dont know the history but I think the current carrier is the NY & Atlantic ?? I believe they're publicly traded and were in the newspaper a couple of times.
New York Cross Harbor (aka NY Regional RR) - float operation based out of Greenville Yard, near the Bayonne/Jersey City border in NJ.
Floats to...50th St yard, I think, interchanges w/ NY & A around the 65th float yard (rehabbed by NY City EDC a while back, and not really used since - especially not for float service).
If anything, the history of NYCH (formerally NY Dock Railway, and seemingly a dozen other names) would be more involved with the PRR/NYNH&H due to the Bay Ridge Branch and associated float operations.
Solid information on the Brooklyn side of the NYCH is somewhat vague, but supposedly there are plans to remove the Second Ave. trackage and connect to the South Brooklyn yard via 1st Ave (which actually is a very good plan, as the NYCH services a business only a half block south of the yard (and Costco across the street), and the Second Ave. trackage is getting a bit rough.
Last year NY EDC tried to kick the NYCH out of their float yard for some misguided park plan, and force them to move float operations to 65th Street Yard (actually, I think they wanted to force them out of business due to back taxes), but a solution was eventually reached which apparently satisfied every party involved...