New York and Atlantic Railway

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New York and Atlantic Railway

Reporting marks	NYA
Locale	Long Island, New York
Dates of operation	1997–present
Track gauge	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge)
Headquarters	Glendale, Queens

NY&A locomotive #159 pulls freight through Jamaica Railroad Station.

The New York and Atlantic Railway (NY&A) (AAR reporting marks NYA) is a short line railroad formed in 1997 to provide freight service over the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road, a public commuter rail agency which had decided to privatize its freight operations. NY&A operates exclusively on Long Island, New York and is connected to the mainland via the Hell Gate Bridge and a car float (the New York Cross Harbor Railroad) from Brooklyn to New Jersey. Lumber, building products, scrap metal, construction & demolition debris, food, beer, gravel, propane, chemicals, structural steel, plastics and recyclable cardboard/paper are NYA's main traffic. Occasionally, NYA transports utility poles and electrical transformers to the LIPA facility in Hicksville, which has its own spurs. NYA also moves municipal solid waste in sealed containers on COFC trains. Some NYA customers are located off-line, and make use of NYA's team tracks to receive or ship products. Team tracks are located in Bay Ridge, Hicksville, Huntington, Greenlawn, St. James, Islip, Richmond Hill, Maspeth, Speonk, Medford, Yaphank, Southold and elsewhere on the Long Island Rail Road lines which NYA serves. Most of NYA's customers have their own spurs, making the use of team tracks unnecessary. Some other occasional products shipped to Long Island via the NYA is bentonite and rock salt. The LIRR and the NYCTA both receive new passenger equipment via the NYA, and ship out old, retired equipment for scrapping by way of the NYA.

The NY&A officially took over Long Island Rail Road's freight operations on May 11, 1997.

[edit] Equipment used

The Railroad operates with former Long Island Railroad locomotives through a lease. These locomotives include ex-LIRR:

Number	Builder/model
101	EMD SW1001
105	EMD SW1001
106	EMD SW1001
151	EMD MP15AC
155	EMD MP15AC
156	EMD MP15AC
159	EMD MP15AC
261	EMD GP38-2
268	EMD GP38-2
270	EMD GP38-2
271	EMD GP38-2

Also used in service are Louisville and Indiana Railroad SW1200s #9321 and 9373.

[edit] References

Skeats, William J. (April/May/June 2005), "The New York & Atlantic Railway", The Railroad Press (65), p. 32. - lists startup date and general info about the railroad

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