- Sunnyside Yard
Sunnyside Yard is a large railroad yard in
Sunnyside, Queens inNew York City . When built by thePennsylvania Railroad at the beginning of the 20th century, the yard was the largest passenger railroad yard in the world. The yard served as the main train storage and service point for Pennsylvania Railroad trains servingNew York City . It is connected to Pennsylvania Station in Midtown Manhattan by theEast River Tunnels .Currently, the yard is owned by
Amtrak , but it is also used byNew Jersey Transit . The shared tracks of theLong Island Rail Road 's Main Line and Amtrak'sNortheast Corridor pass along the southern edge of the yard. Plans for the Long Island Rail Road'sEast Side Access project to build tracks toGrand Central Terminal have those tracks diverging in the vicinity of, or perhaps through, the Sunnyside Yard.Northeast of the yard there is a balloon track which is used for "U-turning"
Amtrak andNJ Transit trains which terminate atPennsylvania Station . Leading eastward, this balloon track switches off at the southernmost portion of the yard. It then turns left under the LIRR/Amtrak tracks, turns left once again, and merges with the Sunnyside yard track to turn the train west toward Penn Station.External links
* [http://www.discoverpotsdam.com/connolly/sunnyside-yard/ Photos] of Sunnyside Yard circa 1925.
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