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Posted by ElectricTraction on Wed Sep 2 16:59:27 2015, in response to Re: Someone remind me, what is the point of light rail again?, posted by NIMBYkiller on Wed Sep 2 13:49:36 2015. The intermodal facility should go between Maspeth Ave and 278, where the proposals show it. Those facilities can handle a LOT of containers with only a couple of tracks, so not that much land would need to be taken for it. It's relatively close to a bunch of DCs, UPS, and some other warehouses and distributors.There is a transload facility operating out on LI. The Cross-Harbor tunnel serves several purposes. 1. Some intermodal freight that is going to NYC and LI from a train or ship would be brought across on stacks. This is quite a bit of stuff, but it wouldn't help local deliveries from DCs in NJ, however. 2. Intermodal freight headed up I-95 for points in Southern New England would be put on COFC or single-stack trains and run to Cedar Hill, Springfield, Davisville, or Worcester, or maybe other locations in Southern New England. I think TOFC would clear the wires if special lower cars, or well cars with trailers were used, but I'm not positive on this one. This is a big market. I drive with these trucks every day. The parade of containers is unbelievable. 3. Carload and transload freight in NYC and LI is pretty much maxed out with the current yard setups. Fresh Pond Yard is completely clogged, Oak Point seems to be pretty busy. More transload sites wouldn't really help that much without more yard capacity. There's not really anywhere to put a decent yard. The Cross-Harbor tunnel, if combined with restructuring the territories of CSAO, NYA, CSX, and P&W would help alleviate this by using CSAO yard space in New Jersey to serve NYC and LI customers. NYA would benefit the least, since CSX/CSAO could probably already easily share yard space, but maybe NYA gets overhead rights into a yard in NJ, and a couple of tracks as part of the deal, or a better system of handing off trains could be figured out. More transload sites could be built, and thus more trucks can be taken off the road for bulk transport and stuff like lumber. 4. Carload and transload freight in Southern New England would be hugely benefitted with better and faster connections to the rest of the US. Cedar Hill could be expanded (about half of the land is still there, with only a small fraction actually in use) to handle more carload freight with flat switching, and serve CSX, P&W, and CSOR. 5. Unit Garbage trains. The garbage trains could go through the tunnel, instead of having to go over the Selkirk Hurdle to get to places that will accept NYC's copious amounts of garbage. The tunnel would open up so much more capacity that better marketing of rail freight throughout southern New England, NYC, and LI would be able to generate more rail traffic. |
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