Little Ferry Yard
Little Ferry Yard is a railyard and intermodal terminal in the Port of New York and New Jersey served by the CSX River Subdivision, New York Susquehanna and Western Railway, Norfolk Southern Railway and Conrail Shared Assets Operations.
Originally developed by NYSW it was later acquired CSX. Located in Ridgefield, New Jersey and extending into Ridgefield Park, it takes its name from the town of Little Ferry across the Hackensack and has a street address in Babbitt, North Bergen, from where it is accessible by road. It is situated at the confluence of the Hackensack River and Overpeck Creek nearby the Bergen Generating Station and the Vince Lombardi Park and Ride of the New Jersey Turnpike.
South of the facility the River Subdivision continues to the North Bergen Yard, where it terminates. Travelling slightly further the NYSW mainline terminates at the Landbrige Terminal at the Jersey City border. The NYSW Undercliff Junction provides access to spur to the unused Edgewater Tunnel.
The lines cross north over Overpeck Creek. CSX has a two-track swing bridge. As of 2015, the NYS&W bridge was slated for replacement.
Numerous studies to restore passenger service on have been conducted, but not materialized. The River Subdvison continues along the original West Shore Railroad alignment through Bergen County and Rockland County, New York reaching the Hudson River after passing through a tunnel at Haverstraw. It continues north to a point near Selkirk Yard where it junctions with the Port Subdivision and Castleton Subdivision. At Bogota the NYSW veers west crossing the Hackensack, and at Paterson, the Passaic River to Sparta, crossing the state line into New York at Warwick.
