Oak Island Yard
Oak Island Yard is a
Ironbound, Newark, New Jersey at 91 Bay Ave., United States. The sprawling complex includes engine house, classification yard, auto unloading terminal, and maintenance facilities. It has ten reception tracks, an automated hump, 30 relatively short classification tracks, and nine departure tracks. In 1999, it classified 800 to 1000 cars
per day.
The yard was built by the
North Jersey Shared Assets Area by the Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX, which took over Conrail operations in 1999.[3][4] It is a support yard for the Port of New York and New Jersey ExpressRail
system.
Several lines converge at the yard.
- The Hunter Connection. The Conrail Lehigh Line began operations in 1999 from the original Lehigh Lineand took over Oak Island Yard access operations from the original Lehigh Line.
- The Passaic and Harsimus Line runs through the yard and heads north to cross the Passaic River and Hackensack River to Marion Junction.
- The Chemical Coast, known as the Garden State Secondary line heads south between the port and the airport.
- To the east lies the Upper New York Bay.
The yard is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places.[5]
See also
- List of rail yards
- Crescent Corridor
- Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway
- Timeline of Jersey City area railroads
- List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey
References
- ^ Marketing Department Inspection Train (PDF). Conrail. May 11, 1984. Retrieved December 7, 2010.
- ^ Timothy Scott Doherty, Brian Solomon MBI Publishing Company, 2004, p93-94
- ^ Rival-railroads-agree-on-Conrail's-assets, New York Times, April 4, 1997
- ^ Salpukas, Agis (June 1, 1999). "Conrail Chugs Off Into the Sunset; CSX and Norfolk Southern Take Over". New York Times. Retrieved November 20, 2010.
- ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Essex County" (PDF). NJ DEP - Historic Preservation Office. January 10, 2010. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2009. Retrieved December 5, 2010.
External links
- Cross harbor freight project Oak Island map