New York & Atlantic Railway RS-90 on the Bushwick Branch
My friend James and I made an early Sunday morning trip up through the hustling and bustling area of New York City to make an attempt and catching one of the many jobs run by the New York & Atlantic Railroad
The NY&AR serves many business and runs several jobs 7 days a week on Long Island and the New York Metro area, interchanging with several railroads, including CSX and P&W, and one of the Sunday jobs is RS-90, which serves Manhattan Beer and Waste Managment along the Bushwick Branch, which runs through several neighborhoods of Queens, navigating under buildings, through alleys and some very urban areas.
We find the RS-90 as they reverse down the branch after picking up a few boxcars at Manhattan Beer and shoving across Metropolitan Avenue in Queen's Ridgewood neighborhood with leased CITX GP38-2 402 and PR20B 300 for power, They are seen soon after pulling a long string of USWX empties from Waste Management across Woodward Avenue and then across Maspeth's Flushing Avenue before we called it an early day due to unforeseen circumstances. Enjoy!
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You know your in a industrial area when a freight train goes through a building to deliver freight, thanks for great video!!!
If I am correct on my NYC subway history, if you follow the Bushwick branch to its western stub end at Bushwick and Montrose Avenues, that was how the BMT was able to get subway cars into the western end of the 14th Street line before the eastern section was completed to connect it to the Canarsie line at Broadway Junction. A temporary ramp was built to send the cars onto the newly constructed tracks that were ready to begin revenue service.
How great to see freight train movements on NYC streets !
This is amazing, I thought that train track was going to be torn down. I'm glad it wasn't.
Excellent work! Real old school urban railroad action.
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Awesome. I run up and down Metropolitan Avenue a lot but haven't caught any movements. One of these days - but this excellent video will suffice for now. I was a kid living near the Fresh Pond yard (late 50's early 60's). Man that was a busy place - back in the day. Thanks.
Great work. Thanks for posting! Business has really grown on that line.
Nice video in a very urban environment, looks a little rough at the crossing area for running trains. thanks for posting.
Very nice!
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AWESOME catch! Great video
Would be nice to see those locomotives way out east by the Medford station.
Those locos are really nice. Thank you for your work
Great Video!!!!
Very nice !!!!
There are still an active track for freight trains on Morgan Avenue near Newtown Creek in Brooklyn New York.
Great video of a cool switching job in city.
Thanks - I like this video - with it's freight train in an urban setting. Bit it would be nice if the railroad could grade separate like the New York Central did in Manhattan.
Are there any route maps for NYAR? I see the tracks all over Ridgewood, Bushwick and East New York. I've always wondered where they intersect and branch off to all the areas this rail line covers