Oak Point Link

The Oak Point Link is a short railroad line in the Bronx, New York City, USA, on the east shore of the Harlem River. It connects the Oak Point Yard at the north end of the Hell Gate Bridge with Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line (on the Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad section). The line, owned by the State of New York, opened in 1998 to allow the Canadian Pacific Railway's subsidiary Delaware and Hudson Railway to access New York City. The access was mandated by the Surface Transportation Board to give competition to CSX's post-Conrail breakup monopoly on New York City and encourage freight in the area to use rail. CP uses trackage rights over CSX and Metro-North from Schenectady south along the east side of the Hudson River to the connection, and runs to an interchange with the New York and Atlantic Railway at Fresh Pond Yard in Queens. From Fresh Pond the NY&A takes freight to the city-owned 65th Street Yard in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The first train to use it ran on March 7, 2000.