29-458: Bay Ridge Line refers to the following transit lines: Bay Ridge Branch (Long Island Rail Road freight) Bay Ridge Line (surface) (bus, formerly streetcar), see Fifth Avenue Line (Brooklyn elevated) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bay Ridge Line . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
58-408: A lower overall cost, estimated at $ 5.5 billion, or about $ 48,000 per expected daily rider. The proposed headway is 5 minutes during peak hours and 10 minutes at other times. Freight use would continue, requiring separated tracks. The following passenger stations once existed on the line: New York Connecting Railroad The New York Connecting Railroad ( reporting mark NYCN ) or NYCR
87-520: A two-year Cross Harbor Freight Movement Study to evaluate options for a freight tunnel. A proposed Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel from New Jersey to Brooklyn would use the Bay Ridge Branch to reach the rest of Long Island, with the line upgraded to double-stack clearances. The state is conducting an environmental review of the project. Another proposal would have the New York City Subway use
116-888: Is a rail line owned by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and operated by the New York and Atlantic Railway in New York City . It is the longest freight-only line of the LIRR, connecting the Montauk Branch and CSX Transportation 's Fremont Secondary (to the Hell Gate Bridge ) at Glendale , Queens with the Upper New York Bay at Bay Ridge , Brooklyn . Car float service provided by New York New Jersey Rail operates between Greenville Yard at Greenville, Jersey City and
145-576: Is a proposal to connect to the Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad spur between the Northeast Corridor at 141st Street to the Harlem Line at 163rd Street and Melrose Avenue, as part of a New York City Subway circumferential line called Triboro RX . CSX serves the line with one to three daily round trips, with trains based out of Oak Point Yard . The CSX trains bring general freight to
174-630: Is a rail line in the borough of Queens in New York City . It links New York City and Long Island by rail directly to the North American mainland. Amtrak , CSX , Canadian Pacific Kansas City , Providence and Worcester Railroad and New York and Atlantic Railway (NYAR) currently use the line. It runs from the Hell Gate Bridge over the East River to Fresh Pond Junction yard in Glendale in Queens. It
203-510: The 65th Street Yard at the Bay Ridge end of the line. The first part of the line was opened by the New York, Bay Ridge and Jamaica Railroad in 1876, from Bay Ridge to the crossing of the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad near New Utrecht . An extension from New Utrecht east and northeast to New Lots opened in 1877, and at the same time the New York and Manhattan Beach Railway opened
232-503: The 65th Street Yard with the New York and Atlantic Railway , which would use it as an intermodal facility to expand its customer base. The takeover of Conrail by Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation was expected to significantly increase rail freight movement into New York City. The yard was completely renovated by the New York City Economic Development Corporation . The NYCEDC also began work on
261-514: The Montauk Branch at Glendale in 1883. Passenger service on the line ended in 1924. The entire line was electrified , starting on July 8, 1927, for New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad freight trains coming off the New York Connecting Railroad ( Hell Gate Bridge ). Electric operation ended on December 31, 1968. On June 4, 1999, Mayor Rudy Giuliani announced that New York City reached an agreement to open and operate
290-708: The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). The line opened in 1917 as a connection between the New Haven's Harlem River and Port Chester Railroad and the PRR East River Tunnels to Penn Station and the North River Tunnels under the Hudson River . The line was dedicated on March 9, 1917 by PRR President Samuel Rea and engineer Gustav Lindenthal . A special train took the directors of the New Haven over
319-555: The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to complete an environmental review for the Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel for freight. Hochul announced in her January 2023 address that the project would proceed as a light rail corridor. Reasons for the light rail choice include faster service, easier construction—mostly fitting in existing right of way with a short on street segment, availability of off-the-shelf rolling stock and
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#1732858149860348-478: The Long Island Rail Road under a privatized concession, has its main offices at Fresh Pond. CSX and PW also interchange freight with NYAR here. South of Fresh Pond Junction, the line continues south as the LIRR's Bay Ridge Branch to the 65th Street Yard . The line has three tracks to the north of Sunnyside Junction and one track to the south of this point (with two-track sections in some areas). There
377-577: The MTA announced that it would study the feasibility of restoring passenger service on the Bay Ridge Branch between Bay Ridge and Astoria, a portion of the proposed Triboro RX route. On January 23, 2020, the MTA Board awarded a $ 1.3 million contract to study the feasibility of restoring passenger service to this section to AECOM. In November 2021, Acting MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber said that money from Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act could be used to fund
406-632: The NYCR passes under several streets in a cut. An arched concrete viaduct over Queens Boulevard is followed by cuts and overpasses over streets in Maspeth, Queens . After crossing under the Long Island Expressway ( Interstate 495 ) and passing a few cemeteries, the line reaches Fresh Pond Junction . This is the main facility for shipping freight by rail in and out of New York City and Long Island. The New York and Atlantic Railway , which operates freights on
435-458: The West Farms substation. Additional power was supplied from a 5 MW, 7 kVA, 11 kV, three-phase to single-phase converter installed at East New York. This unit was also operated in synchronous condenser mode for reactive power support. ( See Amtrak's 25 Hz traction power system .) Like the New Haven, the NYCR traction power was distributed using the 2 x 11 kV autotransformer topology. Two wires,
464-628: The completion of the Bay Ridge Branch project. In early January 2022, as part of her State of the State address , New York governor Kathy Hochul announced that the state would move forward with the Bay Ridge Branch Line by conducting an environmental study on the Interborough Express, a 14-mile (23 km) corridor using the existing Bay Ridge Branch from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn , to Jackson Heights, Queens . The study would consider whether
493-448: The feeder and the catenary (often called the trolley wire), carried voltage of 11 kV to ground, but of opposite phase such that the feeder and catenary were 22 kV phase-to-phase. Six autotransformer stations, spaced an average of 3.8 miles apart along the line, converted power. Each station contained oil circuit breakers for both feeder and trolley buses, bus sectioning switches, and one 3 MVA outdoor autotransformer. The LIRR portion of
522-538: The final work was completed August 7, 1918. The New York Connecting Railroad was electrified around 1917 and last extension completed in 1927 as an extension of the New Haven's system. The NYCR system encompassed 20 route miles (32 km) of track, and was electrified, like the New Haven, using overhead catenary at 11 kV, 25 Hz. The system received power from the New Haven Cos Cob Power Station and Consolidated Edison 201st generating station via
551-441: The interchange with the New York and Atlantic Railway at Fresh Pond Junction , in Queens, and return with empties and container loads of solid waste. Providence and Worcester runs three trains per week carrying gravel from Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT, to Fresh Pond. The New York Connecting Railroad was incorporated on April 21, 1892, and was jointly owned by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (the "New Haven") and
580-633: The line from New Lots north to East New York . An extension north from East New York to Cooper Avenue (and then northwest to Greenpoint , later the Evergreen Branch) opened in 1878, and the Long Island City and Manhattan Beach Railroad (incorporated February 24, 1883, merged with the New York and Manhattan Beach and New York, Bay Ridge and Jamaica into the New York, Brooklyn and Manhattan Beach Railway August 27, 1885) built from Cooper Avenue north to
609-410: The line is on a high-level elevated viaduct over Astoria and Interstate 278 ( Grand Central Parkway ). The line is then on an embankment until Sunnyside Junction , where Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line branches off. The line heads south and parallels Interstate 278 ( Brooklyn-Queens Expressway ) for a distance. This portion of the line was completely rebuilt in 2002. Now in the section of Elmhurst ,
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#1732858149860638-616: The line known as the Fremont Secondary. South of Fresh Pond, the line leads into the Bay Ridge Branch , a freight-only branch owned by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and operated by the New York and Atlantic Railway . The line begins at the Hell Gate Bridge over the East River. This is a massive bridge, with a main span of 1,017 feet (310 m) and a total length of over 17,000 feet (3.2 mi; 5.2 km). Continuing south,
667-567: The line on March 25, 1917, and at that time it was turned over to the New Haven for operation, though the Southern Division (freight-only) was not yet complete. Passenger service began on April 1, 1917, with the return of the Federal Express and the rerouting of two local trains. The Colonial began using it April 30, resulting in the first accident on the NYCR on August 20, 1917. Through freights to Bay Ridge began January 17, 1918, and
696-424: The line should be heavy rail ( rapid transit or regional rail ), light rail , or bus rapid transit . End-to-end travel times are expected to be 40 minutes, and weekday ridership is initially projected to be 74,000 to 88,000. The route would connect up to 17 subway lines and the Long Island Rail Road. A feasibility study was also completed on January 20, 2022. Governor Hochul also announced that she had directed
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754-585: The system (essentially everything to the south of Bowery Bay), along with the freight catenary from West Farms over Hell Gate to Bowery Bay, was removed in 1969-1970. By 1986 Amtrak, which had inherited the Connecting Railroad, changed the traction power system over to 60 Hz operation coincident with the Metro-North Railroad re-powering of the New Haven Line at 60 Hz and de-activation of
783-567: The tracks to link Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx via the Hell Gate Bridge . In 1996 the Regional Plan Association conducted a study to determine the feasibility of the rail link. Based on Paris's RER commuter rail system, the Triboro RX proposal would create a loop around the city. It was first proposed by the Regional Plan Association in 1996. The proposed line, discussion of which
812-513: Was completed in 1917. Amtrak uses the northernmost section of the line from Sunnyside Junction ( Bowery Bay ) in the Woodside section of Queens to the Hell Gate Bridge into the Bronx from which it follows the line north to Boston . Amtrak owns the line north of Sunnyside Junction, which forms part of the Northeast Corridor . From this point to Fresh Pond Junction CSX is the owner, with
841-455: Was revived in 2012, would connect to all non-shuttle subway services. Obstacles for the proposal include the proposed Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel, the lack of electrification on the line, and the single-tracking in some parts of the line. Additionally, there is debate on where the line's northern terminus would be: some, including MoveNY, call for it to end at Hunts Point , while others suggest it end at Yankee Stadium . In mid-October 2019,
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