Current Status
The South Brooklyn Railway provides one of only two track connections between the New York City Subway and the rest of the American rail network. During the 1999 reconstruction of the subway tracks on the Williamsburg Bridge, this connection allowed trains from the J, L and M services, which were isolated during that period, to travel to Coney Island Yard for major work. The other mainline rail connection (at the Linden Shops), subway trains traveled via the Bay Ridge Branch of the Long Island Rail Road, to the Brooklyn Army Terminal. From there, the New York Cross Harbor Railroad brought the cars up to the interchange yard at Second Avenue, where the South Brooklyn Railway took them to Coney Island Yard via the BMT West End Line.
The South Brooklyn Railway has two locomotives, N1 and N2, a pair of GE 47T Diesels. They can also be seen on the subway when not needed for the SBK.
As of May 2012, the interchange with New York New Jersey Rail, LLC at the Second Avenue Yard has been refurbished. A new ramp was installed at the 38th Street Yard at Fourth Avenue to allow receipt of new R156 locomotives and other subway rolling stock that are delivered on flat cars.
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