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As trucking has become more prevalent, rail float operations across the bay have dwindled and freight operations on the Bay Ridge Branch have decreased from 600,000 railcar loads per year to less than 3,000 carloads per year. [5] The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey hopes some day to transport as many as 25,000 cars annually. [6]
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[21] [a] According to the Cross Harbor Freight Movement Project, the alignment favored for a Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel is between portals (access points) located in Conrail's Greenville Yard in Jersey City and along the Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge Branch in Brooklyn, crossing the middle of the Upper Harbor, with a length of 5.7 mi (9.2 km).
Anchorages are known as Stapleton, Bay Ridge and Gravesend. [19] The natural depth of the harbor is about 17 feet (5 m), but it was deepened over the years, to a controlling depth of about 24 feet (7 m) in 1880. [20] By 1891, the Main Ship Channel was minimally 30 feet (9 m) deep.
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The Bay Ridge Branch is a rail line in New York City, owned by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and operated by the New York and Atlantic Railway.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.
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