New York New Jersey Rail

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New York New Jersey Rail Overview

New York New Jersey Rail, LLC is a switching and terminal railroad that operates the only car float operation across Upper New York Bay between Jersey City, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York. Since mid-November 2008, it has been owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which acquired it for about $16 million as a step in a process that might see a Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel completed. The 2.5 mile barge trip across the harbor takes approximately 45 minutes. The equivalent trip by truck is 35–50 miles.

Since freight trains are not allowed in Amtrak's North River Tunnels, and the Poughkeepsie Bridge was closed in 1974, the ferry is the only freight crossing of the Hudson River south of the Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge, 140 miles to the north of New York City, in a process known as the Selkirk hurdle. It is the last remaining car float operation in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The railroad also provides switching services on a few industrial branches for a few customers in both Greenville/Jersey City, NJ and Bay Ridge/Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY.

NYNJ interchanges with:

• Conrail (CSAO) at Greenville, NJ
• New York & Atlantic Railway at Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY
• South Brooklyn Railway at Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY

New York New Jersey Rail Marine Equipment

• New York New Jersey Rail does not own any tugboats for the transport of car floats from New Jersey to New York.
• McAllister Towing & Transportation currently has the tugboat transport contract.

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