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42-464: New York New Jersey Rail, LLC ( reporting mark NYNJ ) is a switching and terminal railroad that operates the only car float operation across Upper New York Bay between Jersey City, New Jersey and Brooklyn, New York . Since mid-November 2008, it has been owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey , which acquired it for about $ 16 million as a step in a process that might see

84-709: A Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel completed. Since freight trains are not allowed in Amtrak 's North River Tunnels , and the Poughkeepsie Bridge was closed in 1974, the ferry is the only freight crossing of the Hudson River south of the Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge , 140 miles (230 km) to the north of New York City, in a process known as the Selkirk hurdle . It is the last remaining car float operation in

126-695: A 2-digit code indicating the vehicle's register country . The registered keeper of a vehicle is now indicated by a separate Vehicle Keeper Marking (VKM), usually the name of the owning company or an abbreviation thereof, which must be registered with the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) and the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and which is unique throughout Europe and parts of Asia and Northern Africa. The VKM must be between two and five letters in length and can use any of

168-473: A cluster of middle-class suburban towns. Because the town is on land of the former Buffalo Creek Reservation , it was not open to white settlement until the mid-19th century. In 1851, the town of Seneca was formed from parts of the towns of Cheektowaga and Hamburg . The town changed the name to "West Seneca" in 1852 to avoid confusion with the town of Seneca in Ontario County, New York . In 1909

210-464: A hyphen. Some examples: When a vehicle is sold it will not normally be transferred to another register. The Czech railways bought large numbers of coaches from ÖBB. The number remained the same but the VKM changed from A-ÖBB to A-ČD. The UIC introduced a uniform numbering system for their members based on a 12-digit number, largely known as UIC number . The third and fourth digit of the number indicated

252-553: A new company, Mid-Atlantic New England Rail, LLC of West Seneca, New York , bought the railroad and renamed it New York New Jersey Rail, LLC (NYNJ). The city of New York purchased the company two years later. The Port Authority began working with government agencies in New York and New Jersey to bring NYNJ to a state of good repair. This includes emergency work to stabilize the transfer bridge structure in Greenville, repairs to

294-485: A new municipal recycling plant. On October 29, 2012 Hurricane Sandy caused major damage to the Greenville facility, undermining the transfer bridge gantries and sinking one of the car floats. The 81-year-old gantry structures were ultimately demolished. The working float bridge at Bush Terminal was transferred by barge to Greenville, where it was re-designated the Greenville Pontoon Bridge. Service

336-700: A predecessor of the CNW, from which the UP inherited it. Similarly, during the breakup of Conrail , the long-retired marks of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and New York Central Railroad (NYC) were temporarily brought back and applied to much of Conrail's fleet to signify which cars and locomotives were to go to CSX (all cars labeled NYC) and which to Norfolk Southern (all cars labeled PRR). Some of these cars still retain their temporary NYC marks. Because of its size, this list has been split into subpages based on

378-547: A rail barge and transfer bridge, demolishing two other bridges, designing a new barge and two new bridges, and adding 10,000 feet of track. In July 2012 NYNJ began operating out of the 65th Street Yard. Initial cargo included apples, home heating oil, new automobiles, and scrap metal. The railroad north along First Avenue was refurbished and new tracks laid to support operations at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal , including an automobile import pier and

420-527: A year. The authority's board authorized $ 118.1 million for the overall project. In December that same year the NYNJ purchased the 2.4 mile Port Jersey Railroad to improve its access to shippers in the Greenville port area. In November 2011 the Port Authority hired HDR, Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska to rehabilitate Greenville Yard. Work included rehabilitating the railyard and waterfront structures, including

462-489: Is stenciled on each piece of equipment, along with a one- to six-digit number. This information is used to uniquely identify every such rail car or locomotive, thus allowing it to be tracked by the railroad it is traveling over, which shares the information with other railroads and customers. In multinational registries, a code indicating the home country may also be included. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) assigns marks to all carriers, under authority granted by

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504-676: The Bay Ridge, Brooklyn end, the 6-acre (2.4 ha) 65th Street Yard connect to the Long Island Rail Road 's freight-only Bay Ridge Branch , which is operated by the New York and Atlantic Railway , and the New York City Transit Authority 's South Brooklyn Railway . The 4 mile barge trip across the harbor takes approximately 45 minutes. The equivalent trip by truck is 35–50 miles. As of 2012,

546-1053: The Port of New York and New Jersey . The railroad operates in two divisions, the Marine division and Port Jersey Rail division. Its switching operations on the New York side include a short spur north to Bush Terminal which runs through the Brooklyn Army Terminal complex and then through the center of First Avenue in Sunset Park . This spur is the last example of active street-running rail operations in New York City. The Port Authority owns Greenville Yard in Greenville, Jersey City , where it connects with Class I railroads CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway , which jointly operate Conrail Shared Assets Operations ' North Jersey Shared Assets Area. On

588-557: The U.S. Surface Transportation Board , Transport Canada , and Mexican Government. Railinc , a subsidiary of the AAR, maintains the active reporting marks for the North American rail industry. Under current practice, the first letter must match the initial letter of the railroad name. As it also acts as a Standard Carrier Alpha Code , the reporting mark cannot conflict with codes in use by other nonrail carriers. Marks ending with

630-542: The census of 2010, there were 44,711 people, 19,151 households, and 12,223 families residing in the town. The population density was 2,148.8 inhabitants per square mile (829.7/km ). There were 18,982 housing units at an average density of 888.2 per square mile (342.9/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 97.96% White , 0.85% Black or African American , 0.21% Native American , 0.62% Asian , 0.01% Pacific Islander , 0.29% from other races , and 0.77% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.67% of

672-513: The 26 letters of the Latin alphabet . Diacritical marks may also be used, but they are ignored in data processing (for example, Ö is treated as though it is O ). The VKM is preceded by the code for the country (according to the alphabetical coding system described in Appendix 4 to the 1949 convention and Article 45(4) of the 1968 convention on road traffic), where the vehicle is registered and

714-530: The 29-acre (12 ha) art and nature center complex also contains wild and cultivated gardens, a large playground, nature trails, playgrounds, and an outdoor amphitheater alongside the banks of Buffalo Creek . The town was once home to one of the largest malls in the area, the Seneca Mall . Schwabl's, a restaurant staple, has been located in West Seneca since 1837, known for their beef on weck ,

756-458: The NYNJ system moves approximately 1,500 rail cars across the harbor per year. Port Authority officials suggested that the system can transport as many as 25,000 cars annually. NYNJ replaced two EMD GP38-2 with three low-emission locomotives from Knoxville Locomotive Works in Tennessee for $ 5 million. As of July 2015, the system had moved about 4900 rail cars year-to-date. From 1983 to 2006,

798-407: The Port Authority announced a $ 35 million study to build a Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel , suitable for freight. If built, the tunnel would eliminate the need for the NYNJ ferry. 40°40′44″N 74°4′25″W  /  40.67889°N 74.07361°W  / 40.67889; -74.07361 Reporting mark In North America , the mark, which consists of an alphabetic code of two to four letters,

840-682: The VKM BLS. Example for an "Einheitswagen" delivered in 1957: In the United Kingdom, prior to nationalisation, wagons owned by the major railways were marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway concerned; for example, wagons of the Great Western Railway were marked "G W"; those of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway were marked "L M S", etc. The codes were agreed between

882-541: The acquiring company discontinues the name or mark of the acquired company, the discontinued mark is referred to as a "fallen flag" railway. Occasionally, long-disused marks are suddenly revived by the companies which now own them. For example, in recent years, the Union Pacific Railroad has begun to use the mark CMO on newly built covered hoppers, gondolas and five-bay coal hoppers. CMO originally belonged to Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway ,

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924-489: The area immediately south of Buffalo split from West Seneca, becoming the city of Lackawanna . Following election day in 2019, the town elected a Republican Town Supervisor for the first time in 50 years and first town board member in 13 years, despite having a two to one Democrat to Republican ratio among registered voters (a Democrat running as an Independent also ran in the Supervisorial race). The Eaton Site

966-411: The average family size was 3.02. As of the census of 2000 the population was spread out, with 22.3% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 27.2% from 25 to 44, 25.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.3 males. The median income for a household in

1008-1020: The equipment used in these services. This may also apply to commuter rail, for example Metrolink in Southern California uses the reporting mark SCAX because the equipment is owned by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority —which owns the Metrolink system—even though it is operated by Amtrak. This is why the reporting mark for CSX Transportation , which is an operating railroad, is CSXT instead of CSX. Private (non-common carrier) freight car owners in Mexico were issued, up until around 1990, reporting marks ending in two X's, possibly to signify that their cars followed different regulations (such as bans on friction bearing trucks) than their American counterparts and so their viability for interchange service

1050-448: The first letter of the reporting mark: A railway vehicle must be registered in the relevant state's National Vehicle Register (NVR), as part of which process it will be assigned a 12-digit European Vehicle Number (EVN). The EVN schema is essentially the same as that used by the earlier UIC numbering systems for tractive vehicles and wagons , except that it replaces the 2-digit vehicle owner's code (see § Europe 1964 to 2005 ) with

1092-576: The first of the new barges, NYNJR100, was delivered to NYNJ. Built by Metal Trades, Inc., the four-track barge can carry up to 18 rail cars of 60-foot (18 m) length, with up to 2,298 long tons (2,335 tonne) of cargo. The second barge, NYNJR200, was delivered in December 2018. An older, 14-car barge, the 278, is still in service. The new ExpressRail container terminal opened January 7, 2019, with four tracks out of eight operational. The remaining four tracks were opened on June 17, 2019. In July 2017,

1134-592: The letter "X" are assigned to companies or individuals who own railcars, but are not operating railroads; for example, the TTX Company (formerly Trailer Train Company) is named for its original reporting mark of TTX. In another example, the reporting mark for state-funded Amtrak services in California is CDTX (whereas the usual Amtrak mark is AMTK) because the state transportation agency ( Caltrans ) owns

1176-702: The northern portion of Orchard Park , and the northeastern portion of Hamburg Town . Portions of West Seneca Town are in Orchard Park Central School District and in Cheektowaga-Sloan Union Free School District . West Seneca is home to the following private primary and secondary schools (Roman Catholic schools are affiliated with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo ): Former schools: Houghton College used to have

1218-655: The operation was known as the New York Cross Harbor Railroad ( reporting mark NYCH ). Earlier predecessors include the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Company , Bush Terminal Railroad , New York Dock Railway , and New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad operations at Bay Ridge and Greenville. In 1999 the city of New York rehabilitated the larger 65th Street Yard for car float operations with two transfer bridges . It

1260-572: The owner of a reporting mark is taken over by another company, the old mark becomes the property of the new company. For example, when the Union Pacific Railroad (mark UP) acquired the Chicago and North Western Railway (mark CNW) in 1995, it retained the CNW mark rather than immediately repaint all acquired equipment. Some companies own several marks that are used to identify different classes of cars, such as boxcars or gondolas. If

1302-405: The owner, or more precisely the keeper of the vehicle. Thus each UIC member got a two-digit owner code . With the introduction of national vehicle registers this code became a country code. Some vehicles had to be renumbered as a consequence. The Swiss company BLS Lötschbergbahn had the owner code 63. When their vehicles were registered, they got numbers with the country code 85 for Switzerland and

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1344-411: The population. There were 19,151 households, out of which 28.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.2% were married couples living together, 10.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.5% were non-families. 26.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and

1386-516: The railways and registered with the Ministry of Railways , Government of India . West Seneca, New York West Seneca is a town in Erie County , New York , United States. The population was 45,500 at the 2020 census . West Seneca is a centrally located interior town of the county, and a suburb of Buffalo . West Seneca, Orchard Park and Hamburg form the inner " Southtowns ",

1428-762: The railways and registered with the Railway Clearing House . In India, wagons owned by the Indian Railways are marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway divisions concerned along with the Hindi abbreviation; for example, trains of the Western Railway zone are marked "WR" and "प रे"; those of the Central Railway zone are marked "CR" and "मध्य", etc. The codes are agreed between

1470-564: The restaurant was featured in a 2009 episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations . XGen Elite Sports Complex is home to the Buffalo eXtreme of the American Basketball Association . There are three separate public school districts within the town. The West Seneca Central School District is the largest and serves the majority of the town. It also serves small portions of the southern parts of Cheektowaga ,

1512-515: The town and intersects New York State Route 400 (Aurora Expressway) in the northwestern part of the town and U.S. Route 219 in the southwestern section. The east town line is marked by New York State Route 78 (Transit Road). New York State Route 240 (Harlem Road/Orchard Park Road) and New York State Route 277 (Union Road) are other major north-south roads, while New York State Route 16 (Seneca Street/Center Road) and New York State Route 354 (Clinton Street) are major east-west highways. As of

1554-437: The town was $ 46,278, and the median income for a family was $ 54,179. Males had a median income of $ 39,003 versus $ 26,846 for females. The per capita income for the town was $ 20,529. About 3.0% of families and 4.6% of the population were below the poverty line , including 5.1% of those under age 18 and 4.7% of those age 65 or over. The Charles E. Burchfield Nature & Art Center is located in West Seneca. Developed in 1999,

1596-554: The transfer bridge and track infrastructure in Brooklyn, and procurement of ultra-low emissions locomotives and a new 30-car rail barge. In May 2010 the Port Authority announced that it would purchase Greenville Yard and build a new barge-to-rail facility there, as well as improving the existing rail car float system. The barge-to-rail facility is expected to handle an estimated 60,000 to 90,000 containers of solid waste per year from New York City, eliminating up to 360,000 trash truck trips

1638-580: Was impaired. This often resulted in five-letter reporting marks, an option not otherwise allowed by the AAR. Companies owning trailers used in trailer-on-flatcar service are assigned marks ending with the letter "Z", and the National Motor Freight Traffic Association , which maintains the list of Standard Carrier Alpha Codes, assigns marks ending in "U" to owners of intermodal containers . The standard ISO 6346 covers identifiers for intermodal containers. When

1680-573: Was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The Community of True Inspiration Residence was listed in 2013. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 21.41 square miles (55.46 km ), of which 21.36 square miles (55.32 km ) is land and 0.06 square miles (0.15 km ), or 0.27%, is water. The New York State Thruway ( Interstate 90 ) passes through

1722-540: Was not turned over to NYCH because of a dispute over money owed the city. NYCH continued to use the single transfer bridge at Bush Terminal instead. In 2002, New York Cross Harbor Railroad revenues from railroad operations were $ 1,685,899. It had 48 active customers, with shipments of cocoa from docks in Brooklyn as its largest line of business. It also operated a trucking service and offered shipside and dockside service for receipt or delivery of various types of cargo, such as oversized steel beams. NYCH ceased to exist in 2006;

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1764-628: Was restored in late December, after 52 days of intensive reconstruction. On September 17, 2014 the Port Authority announced that it was funding a major redevelopment of the Greenville Yard, to include a new ExpressRail container terminal servicing the Port Jersey Global Marine Terminal. The Port Authority would also build two new rail-to-barge transfer bridges, purchase two new car float barges, and buy four new ultra low emission locomotives In November 2017,

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