Hicksville operations

Not likely, last time a generator was put in there around 2000. Check the link for Hurricane Sandy and BRT. There is talk of moving materials to Brookhaven. Poles used to go to PW Team track in Farmingdale before coastal started operations

Is Jamaica Ash in Westbury still served by NYA, or not at present ???

I think the market for waste paper like scrap metal is more international now. If you see the shipping containers coming out of there that is probably why. You don't see 15 cars a day coming out of Gershow either anymore as the ferrous metals move out in containers now also.

There was a long cut of dark red BNSF (and a couple of ATSF) covered hoppers on the yard's eastern-side track and two cuts of tankcars on the center and western-side tracks this past Saturday afternoon. No other rolling stock or power in the yard, and I noticed the old caboose that had been spotted at the end of the eastern track for years is gone. Long cut of LIRR gondolas is parked on the spur that parallels the main line east of the yard to the post office.

I flew over Hicksville yard in a friend's small plane this weekend and observed the yard full of tank cars. There were standard, black, single-dome tank cars surrounded by kitchen grease collection trucks. So maybe that's getting shipped out for biodiesel refining?

There was also a cut of stranger tank cars, including a three-dome, a four-dome, and a short gray one. Any idea what those are bringing in?

I will post photos when I have access to them.

rb wrote:There was also a cut of stranger tank cars, including a three-dome, a four-dome, and a short gray one.

Were there really 3 (and 4!) dome tank cars there? I thought those were relegated to museums, MOW, or perhaps HazMat training services - such tank cars in revenue service must be pretty rare (although this page mentions one such service)

OK, here is an aerial photo of the yard: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtransport/14018984776/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I have since learned that the two tracks on the right (west) are Grease Lightning. They refine kitchen grease and ship it out to be made into biodiesel. See their site, yourwasteourfuel.com.

So what is happening on the easternmost track? There were 5 different kinds of tank car there last weekend, and four of those types are pretty rare on LI!

Any customers getting served at Hicksville besides the bio-diesel customer now? Any boxcar, reefer, covered hopper or flatcar traffic there? Thanks.

Anything new at Hicksville Yard? Will the new third-track project affect NYA's use of the yard in anyway?

What happened to it? Was it ever scrapped or is in another yard somewhere?

Anything new going on at Hicksville Yard?