Linden Yard is a term that is used to refer to two separate railroad freight yards in Linden, New Jersey, United States. One is along the Staten Island Railway (SIR) and the other is along the Northeast Corridor (NE Corridor) right of way.
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There is a 19 track railroad freight yard along the Staten Island Railway. It lies west of the Chemical Coast Line in Elizabeth and east of the combined Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast Lines in Linden, with the SIR line's grade separated flyover of the NE Corridor being just north of the Linden station. It is also situated between U.S. Route 1/9 and Interstate 95, just south of Interstate 278 and north of ConocoPhillips' Linden Terminal facility which is part of its Bayway Refinery complex.[1][2]
SIR freight traffic from Howland Hook Marine Terminal and the Staten Island Transfer Station at the site of the former Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island may pass through Linden Yard. Chemical traffic from the aptly named Chemical Coast Line may also use Linden Yard before heading west to either the Raritan Valley Line or the Conrail Lehigh Line.
The SIR Line from Cranford to Staten Island over the Arthur Kill Bridge was originally constructed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from 1889 to 1890.[3]
There is also a 16 track yard that lies along the Northeast Corridor Line between West Linden Avenue and the Northeast Corridor Line itself that is referred to as Linden Yard.[4] This other yard is south of the SIR line yard and completely separate from it. The NE Corridor Linden Yard is located northwest of the Linden Airport and also northwest of the brownfield site where a General Motors (GM) plant used to be located (the GM Linden Assembly plant closed in 2005 and was demolished in 2008[5]).
