How can a business in our region of Metropolitan New Jersey, New York City, or Long Island take advantage of the cost-savings that moving goods by rail offers if they are not rail served? Transloading.
Transloading allows for goods to be moved by rail from across North America to New York New Jersey Rail's 65th Street Yard in Brooklyn, New York or our facilities in Jersey City, NJ, where shippers can unload their product onto trucks for "Last Mile" delivery. The reverse is also very viable with “First Mile” shipping in which you can load rail cars in Brooklyn or Jersey City and ship your product to its destination.
Brooklyn’s 65th Street Yard has two team tracks, each approximately 870 linear feet in length served by a transloading dock, along with two additional tracks, each approximately 2,000 feet in length that are available for storage. The yard itself offers 15 acres of transitional lay-down space where shippers can hold materials for short periods of time.
Jersey City’s Greenville Yard has approximately 2,000 feet of track length that is available for transloading or roughly 4,000 plus feet for car storage. There is roughly 4 acres of transitional lay-down space where shippers can hold materials for short periods of time.
Products often transloaded include Aggregates, Building Materials, Dry Bulk, Food Grade Products, Heavy Equipment, Liquid Bulk, Lumber, Millings, Pipe, Steel, Transformers, and many other commodities. Box Cars, Covered Hoppers, Flat Cars, Gondolas, Hoppers, Tank cars are some of the types of railcars often utilized.
Just because you don’t have a direct facility rail siding, doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of rail and all of its offerings. Less trucks, tailored local service, flexibility, offsite storage, and more.
For more information on transloading materials at any of our facilities, contact us.