Strasburg Valley Railroad Company

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Fresh Pond New York, home to the yard of New York & Atlantic. Not your regular passanger railroad, but still an important part of long island history. Running on the LIRR sytstem we will be picking up and cropping cars to Riverhead. Enjoy Pictures and the history of the freight company on Long Island, while we use former LIRR GP-38-2s and MP-15s along with SW-1500s

                     NYA History

The New York and Atlantic Railway (NY&A) (reporting mark 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.

Derailment

On January 8, 2009 a New York And Atlantic Railway Train was derailed, east of the Deer Park station. Six cars went off track and one was flipped to its side. The freight train containing construction debris did not injure anyone. The accident caused commuter trains to be delayed for several hours. LIRR was unsure on how this derailment happened, and stated that the derailment could cause delays on January 9, 2009. However service was resumed with no further delays. Click the following link to see a video of the derailed train

Major Commodities
Lumber, paper, building materials, plastic, aggregates, food products, and recyclables

Major Customers
Allied Extruders, Combined Container, ECDC, Favorite Plastics, Gershow Recycling, Kings Materials, Manhattan Beer, Prima Asphalt, Southern Container, Southeast Produce, Waste Management, Yang Shing Trading

Connecting Railroads
CP, CSXT, NS, NYCH, P&W

Annual Volume
20,000 Carloads

Transload Facilities
Brooklyn, NY
Queens, NY
Farmingdale, NY
Hicksville, NY
Speonk, NY
Yaphank, NY

                                              NYA Engine Roster

Notes:  (1)  #151 has/had been painted a bright "mint green" color with a batch of paint from a different supplier
                    (2)  Only at the NYAR for a short while, until LIRR GP38-2 arrived
                    (3)  Engine blown? Being scapped?
                    (4)  Still active, lacks ASC

       Info: Henry Wagner

         From Trainsarefun.com, Click for Orignal where copyied

                       NYA Photos

      Click Here For The Offical NYA Website