Sentences with phrase «csx rail yard»

Many are managers from the field who spend a year or two in the department and blend excellent math skills with rail yard know - how.

Surrounded by snow drifts two feet deep, locomotive 9136 rests at the head of a procession of identical engines at a sprawling rail yard in Winnipeg.

Yesterday, Harrison highlighted his yen for efficiency (and perhaps courted Norfolk Southern shareholders) by declaring that some of Norfolk's rail yards are «not needed» and would be quickly sold off following a merger.

Ruest said the railroad was adding workers, locomotives, along with new track and expanded rail yards, which he said would improve operations through the fourth quarter.

With «revenue plucked from the air,» in the words of Wilgus, the New York Central transformed its unsightly rail yard — an urban eyesore — into a commercial and residential district that contemporaries called Terminal City.

Seeing this problem as an opportunity, Wilgus suggested that New York Central Railroad build a new Park Avenue by leasing land to commercial builders where the old rail yard had stood.

Barreling through one of the station's smoke - filled tunnels, a commuter train slammed into the rear of another train that not entered the rail yard.

In the years since, Rahmé has created edgy and whimsical perfumes for men and women, all blended in New York by handpicked French perfumers and each recognizing a specific city locale, from Harlem to Wall Street and Madison Square Park to the High Line, the transformed elevated rail yard she «perfumed» five years ago.

A street artist that used to sneak into the rail yards years ago to create art illegally was now commissioned to produce a massive piece for BCG, bringing things full circle.

«We used to be the far West Side, because the far West Side was all rail yards.

In an era when life expectancy was under 65, you didn't want a physically frail 65 - year - old working in a rail yard.

Listening to a Tom Waits album is like taking a road trip through America's forgotten dive bars, laneways, swamps and rail yards and other out - of - the - way places frequented by the great unwashed.

Parrish's rail yard serves as a transitional point for the rank waste.

In New York City alone, MTA brass never attempted to sell $ 12 million worth of air rights over rail yards that could be used for commercial structures — even though they hired Massey Knakal Realty Services in 2006 to consult on the matter.

Yet in last year's budget negotiations, $ 40 million went to the Port of Oswego Authority to «link with the Port of New York and create additional intermodal rail yards in Syracuse and Binghamton» — a decision that has ended up undermining 3Gi's bid.

Diaz announced in his 2015 State of the Borough address that his office would study the feasibility of building platforms over three Bronx rail yards operated by the MTA: 149th Street in Mott Haven, the 1 train yards that connect Riverdale and Kingsbridge, and the Concourse Yard next to Lehman College.

Cuomo and de Blasio have had public spats about everything from universal pre-K to the use of Sunnyside rail yards in Queens for affordable housing.

Diaz reiterated his call to develop the rail yard by Lehman College and argued that students who attend public schools should not have to pay for remedial classes at CUNY.

THE BRONX — A rail yard by Lehman College could be the ideal site for mixed - income housing, new retail space and an expansion of the school's campus, according to a new report from the office of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr..

The city has picked architecture firm PAU to devise a master plan for the 180 - acre Sunnyside rail yards in Queens.

State transportation officials said they are working to expand the DeWitt rail yard controlled by CSX into an «inland port,» a decision that appears to put an end to more ambitious plans put forth in 2015 by regional business leaders.

A tanker car that partially derailed spilled 2,100 gallons of diesel fuel at the CSX rail yard, Selkirk Fire Chief Joe Michaniw said.

Bloomberg is counting on Ross to resuscitate its pre-bust ambition to develop the «last frontier» of Manhattan, the West Side rail yards, into a major business district

When the mayor pitched the idea to develop the sprawling rail yard during his second State of the City address in early 2015, critics said it would be too costly to make affordable housing work.

There was the time, less than a month later, when Mr. de Blasio, as a centerpiece of his State of the City address, announced a plan to build an affordable housing complex on a Queens rail yard — and Mr. Cuomo, within hours, shot it down.

Ulrich dismissed Addabbo's claims that there was little he could do about the rail yard in Middle Village, however.

Cuomo's spokeswoman released a statement calling de Blasio's $ 15 minimum wage plan a «non-starter» and saying that the rail yards, partially owned by the state - controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was not available for short - term development.

The state's plan calls for expanding the CSX rail yard in the town of DeWitt to handle 30,000 containers a year via rail between central New York and ports in the New York - New Jersey region.

The two men have publicly clashed on everything from the minimum wage, to the use of Sunnyside rail yards in Queens for affordable housing and the mayor's plans for universal pre-K.

The city's Economic Development Corporation issued a request for proposals to study the feasibility of development at the rail yards in February.

Brownfield sites range from abandoned gas stations to rail yards and former heavy industrial manufacturing plants.

Related and the city envision the 26 - acre site, currently an MTA - owned rail yard, to be a massive new neighborhood, composed of new skyscrapers and about 13 million square feet of commercial and residential space.

Public Advocate James, who brought Brawley to the general election mayoral debate on Tuesday night as her guest, has also recently started calling for a much more ambitious overall program of building new affordable housing, putting forth ideas like building more over rail yards across the five boroughs.

Casting aside objections from Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio is plowing ahead with a plan to redevelop the Sunnyside rail yards in Queens as an affordable - housing mecca.

Top Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa blasted out an emailed statement declaring that the Sunnyside rail yards, which the state partially owns, were not available to be decked for affordable housing, as de Blasio had just proposed.

It could also connect to the rail yards in Selkirk south of Albany.

The latest round of inspections took place last week and included mainline track and switches belonging to CSX and Canadian Pacific, CSX rail yards in Selkirk and Buffalo, a Canadian Pacific yard in Albany, and 445 crude oil tank cars.

The $ 15 billion redevelopment of the West Side rail yards is no longer on track to happen as quickly as was expected before the...

The Related Companies is plowing ahead with its preliminary construction work at the 26 - acre West Side rail yards site, between 30th and 33rd streets,...

Mayor de Blasio is moving ahead with a plan to redevelop the Sunnyside rail yards in Queens into affordable - housing, despite objections from Governor Cuomo.

De Blasio's minimum wage suggestion was described as a «non-starter» and the rail yards de Blasio wanted to use for affordable housing were not available in the «short - term,» the governor's office said.

The mayor did not give the governor's office a heads - up on plans to redevelop a rail yard in Queens, and the governor quickly squashed the idea.

Driscoll told Mahoney he was negotiating with CSX railroad officials to create the intermodal facility at the DeWitt rail yard near Kirkville and Girden Roads, at the border of Manlius and DeWitt.

The State Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit that alleges the Metropolitan Transportation Authority acted inappropriately in its sale of the Vanderbilt rail yard...

It sits on a site purchased by the city that once contained a rail yard, a laundry and a plant that made gas from coal.

Rob Simpson, president of CenterState CEO and outgoing co-chair of the Central New York Regional Economic Development Council, sharply criticized the decision by state transportation officials to subsidize an enhancement of the DeWitt rail yard and call it an «inland port.»

From the entrances, stairwells, elevator shafts, vents, rail yards, and the tracks themselves, the nature of being underground puts our subway systems at an inherent risk.

RailPower Technologies Corp.'s Green Goat diesel — electric «switcher» — a small, short - distance locomotive for assembling, disassembling and moving trains in rail yards — was a promising technology powered primarily by batteries (even when it idled) and employed its diesel engine only to recharge the batteries.

Then the containers are dispatched from the rail yards alongside the harbor onto 1,200 diesel - powered freight trains that ferry goods up and down the coast, and 35,000 semi tractor - trailers that speed along heavily congested highways to the rest of the country.

Four major rail yards emit diesel exhaust nearby, and the area is home to «multiple auto body shops and chrome - platers in close proximity to neighborhoods,» she said.