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NEW YORK & ATLANTIC RAILWAY

A Subsidiary of
Anacostia Rail Holdings Company,
an entity of the stockholders of the
Anacostia & Pacific Company, Inc.

68-01 Otto Road
Glendale, New York 11385

Telephone:  718-497-3023
FAX:  718-497-3364

This page was started 15 May 1999 as a courtesy to the NYA;
the NYA now has its own, official home page:

http://www.anacostia.com/nyar/nyar.html
[with primarily administrative, sales, and marketing information
(i.e. - serious, profit-oriented stuff - they have to make a living, you know!)].

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Errata:  I stand corrected; I have referred to the New York & Atlantic Railway as the "NY&AR" or the the "NY&A".  I am informed (08 Jan 00) that they refer to themselves as the "NYA", verified it on their official page, and have corrected this page accordingly (SB,III).

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New York & Atlantic GP38-2 #270 freshly repainted in NYA colors, May 15, 1999,
on ex-NY Connecting Railroad trackage (Conrail) in Middle Village, Queens
(under Metropolitan Avenue, adjacent to the "M" Train station)
[Note the date (1916) on the overpass.]
Photographer:  B. Ente
[Thumbnail image - click on the picture for the full image.]

To save you the trouble of loading the large image, here is the date, enlarged for you:

[Detail of above photo by B. Ente.]

Operating over Long Island Rail Road trackage, fitting freight traffic into the passenger schedules of the world's busiest commuter railroad (no mean feat but one that was done long before), the NYAR is in effect a "bridge" line, as is the New York Cross Harbor Railroad with which it connects at Bay Ridge.  the NYCHRR operates car float service between Conrail/CSX at Greenville Terminal in New Jersey and Bay Ridge (the only remaining rail-marine float operation in New York Harbor (others included the NYCH predecessor, the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal RR).

The reported possibility that the 65th Street float terminal, also on the Brooklyn waterfront, may get new float bridges and be put back into operation, with the NYA operating both the marine and rail services, has now become, in part, reality.  B. Ente reports (24 May 99) that New York City selected the NYA to run the yard and that initial plans are to use the yard for storage, switching, and intermodal service; there is a float bridge adjacent to the yard, but at this time it is not part of the agreement.

Bernie added (31 May 99):  "On May 21, 1999, the City of New York awarded the 65th Street Railroad Yard in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to New York & Atlantic Railway of Glendale, Queens.  The use of 65th Street will allow NYA to establish a major intermodal yard where railcars will be loaded onto carfloats and/or railcar freighters.  Hundreds of trucks will be removed from the streets and highways."

WOW!  "Our boys" sure don't waste any time!  Again per Bernie (02 Jun 99):  "On Wednesday, June 2, New York & Atlantic Railway operated the first ever revenue train into the 65th Street Rail Yard in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.  This is the first time the yard has been officially put into service since it was rebuilt by the City of New York in the mid-1970's.  At about 1:00 p.m., NYA train RS-100 rolled into the yard with 26 loads of plastic pellets for the transload center."

Here is a Polaroid photo taken by the train crew:

NYA 65th Street Yard:

[Thumbnail image - click on the picture for the full (90Kb) image courtesy B. Ente.]

On December 23, 1998, NYA hosted Santa and his helper
(General Superintendent Steve Sanders and daughter)
at a party for the neighborhood children.
Photographer:  B. Ente
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  He comes back each year; and a grand time is had by all (here's 1999):

Info. and photo from B. Ente

About 250 children attended in 1999 in clear but cold weather.

The caboose is an ex-LIRR cabin car, carpeted and painted inside but basically gutted.  Electric heaters kept it warm inside.  NYA has since restored it as their "executive caboose".

The festivities for 2002 were featured in color on the front page of the Ridgewood Times Newsweekly for 27 Dec 02.   (29 Jan 03)

Of historical note (already!); the NYA started off in 1997 with two GP10s from Conrail, now gone since the ex-LIRR GP-38-2s came on the property.  Several readers have asked about them, so here is #202 (ex-CR/PC #7595, formerly PRR #7261) as she looked when freshly repainted in early NYA livery:

(image cropped from photograph by, and all rights reserved to, B. Ente - info. from Bill Russell)
[Full image on Bill Russell's site - see below - and also see below for another shot with #201.]

{Hey!  If this is an early livery, freshly repainted, how come there is an SW hiding on the left in the current bright green livery?}

[Note also that #201 was CR/PC #7589, formerly PRR # 7248, and that both GP10s were next on the Louisville & Indiana Railroad (another LI!).  I am advised (01 Sep 01) that #202 was sent to the west coast to L&I's sister railroad Pacific Harbor Belt.]

REALLY SERIOUS FREIGHT returns to LI!  Here is CSX train YAOP-33 [Oak Point (Bronx) to Fresh Pond (Queens)] on the Hell Gate Bridge* on Sunday, 19 Sep 99, at 16:10 (an eastbound Amtrakker had just passed the freight):

Photographer:  B. Ente
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Will you just look at all that power?

[* - Hell Gate fans might wish to look at a Z-scale (1:220) version proposed in the Webmaster's Z-Scale Hell Gate Bridge article in Ztrack Newsmagazine.]

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[Thumbnail image - click on the picture for the full (90Kb) image courtesy B. Ente.]
(Photographer:  B. Ente)

Then on 15 May 1999, the NY Connecting RR Society had a tour which included the NYA; busy bunch at Fresh Pond!  Bernie Ente put that one together, so: Bernie's (also) the MAN!

Have you seen the article, "Long Island's Freight Revival", in the May 1999, TRAINS magazine?  It's subtitled "New York & Atlantic plans for growth while co-existing with the nation's busiest passenger railroad" and can be seen on the TRAIN's website under storyARCHIVE.

Here's the New York & Atlantic Railway's new 65th Street Yard on the Brooklyn waterfront on 04 Aug 99 at 9:30am .  You are looking SW from from 2nd Avenue, with lower New York Bay in the distance.  Storage tracks are on the left and the transfer yard is on the right.

[Thumbnail image - click on the picture for the full (90Kb) image courtesy B. Ente.]
[Info. and photograph courtesy of B. Ente]