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OhGoodOhMan t1_ixlzi7o wrote

Reply to comment by Shortthelongs in A Railroad Strike Could Lead to a Literal Shitshow in NYC by arrogant_ambassador

Garbage from trucks gets loaded into containers and then onto either a barge or train. There's one facility to transfer garbage from trucks to trains in a marshy corner of SI; from here the trains go over a bridge to NJ, and then probably to landfills in the South. There's another such facility in Mott Haven. If that garbage also goes to the South, then trains travel along Metro North's Hudson line to Albany, cross the river, then head south/west. And one more in East Williamsburg, in which case trains would have to go through the Bronx and Albany.

No freight trains are allowed through the tunnels leading to Penn, nor GCT.

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Wowzlul t1_ixogt01 wrote

> There's one facility to transfer garbage from trucks to trains in a marshy corner of SI

I am 99% sure there's another one in East Williamsburg because I've seen it with my own eyes.

edit: Oh you actually mentioned it

> No freight trains are allowed through the tunnels leading to Penn, nor GCT.

IIRC the Pennsylvania Railroad experimented with this during World War 2, running a test freight train through the Hudson tubes.

I think it became disconnected and immobilized.

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