Talk:Linden Yard

This article is about the freight yard in Linden, New Jersey. For the subway repair shop in Brooklyn, New York, see Linden Shops.

Linden Yard is a 19 track railroad freight yard along the Staten Island Railway in Linden, New Jersey, United States. It lies west of the Chemical Coast Line in Elizabeth and east of the combined Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast Lines in Linden, with the SIR line's grade separated flyover of the NE Corridor being just north of the Linden station. It is also situated between U.S. Route 1/9 and Interstate 95."SIRT-Staten Island Rapid Transit". Retrieved 2009-03-27."Staten Island Rapid Transit Track Profile (circa 1960) Cranford Junction, NJ to Arthur Kill, NY". Retrieved 2009-03-27.

SIR freight traffic from Howland Hook Marine Terminal and the Staten Island Transfer Station at the site of the former Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island may pass through Linden Yard. Chemical traffic from the synecdochically named Coast line may also use Linden Yard before heading west to either the Raritan Valley Line or the Conrail Lehigh Line.

See also

• List of New Jersey railroad junctions
• Staten Island Railway

External links 67.86.73.252 (talk) 12:42, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh! I was going to delete this until I saw your comment at Talk:Linden Shops#The Linden Yard redirect. It is useful to have the link in both directions :-) Astronaut (talk) 15:47, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

I think I initially omitted the link to the other talk page from this talk page since I wanted the proposal to look a bit more like a stub article than a discussion page. Nevertheless, thank you for providing the link to the other talk page, I think it does help. 67.86.73.252 (talk) 22:13, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

By the way there is also a "Linden Yard & Shops" for the Chicago L at Linden Avenue and 4th Street, Village of Wilmette[1], as well as a real estate company in Memphis Tennessee.

I have gone ahead and replaced the redirect with the proposed article content. 67.86.73.252 (talk) 00:14, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Article rename

There appears to be more than one Linden Yard rail facility in the world. Would anyone object to renaming this article Linden Yard (New Jersey)? 67.86.73.252 (talk) 00:16, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

No problem. While you're at it, how about creating a disambiguation page with links to all the Linden Yards/Depots/Shops. Astronaut (talk) 02:04, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

A disambiguation page would be helpful. By the way, Linden, Indiana is home to a 1907 Railroad depot or station house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places according to [2]. 67.86.73.252 (talk) 04:23, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

I suspect the dab page at Linden should suffice for this task. 67.86.73.252 (talk) 23:44, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Rolling stock and operators

This past weekend I visited both yards (unfortunately without a camera, hence no photos) and I noted that in the SIR yard were parked many off white colored covered hopper cars belonging to GATX. In the yard along the NE Corridor were black tank cars (presumably TTX Company though I did not get a good look). I note that US Development Group operates a Linden Terminal ethanol truck to rail to barge facility at Tremley Point on the Arthur Kill that deals mostly with tank car loads.[3] Operators along the Chemical Coast line include both CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway. There are several wikipedia articles that mention that the Morristown and Erie Railway has a special contract with either Union County, New Jersey or the state of New Jersey to develop freight lines in the county, including the SIR line. However, note that the youtube video link on the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge page clearly shows a CSX locomotive hauling a train over the bridge. I think it would be helpful to this article to gather referenced sources that mention which companies service each yard. 67.86.73.252 (talk) 12:37, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

This railfan discussion site discusses Chemical Coast customers and shippers: [4]. From the discussion of Bayway Refinery production I speculate that the GATX covered hoppers were used for polypropylene transport. 67.86.73.252 (talk) 01:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)