https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...ge#commentsContainer
Kind of a neat article about operations around NYC and how rail may once again becoming important. I read about this, and I remember back to the sad sight of all the piers on the west side that once had brought freight into NYC and the facilities that served them. Not saying I would want to go back to that per se, but rather that no one had the foresight to realize that truck traffic might end up being a problem (then again, in the 1970's, when many thought NYC was going to basically fall apart like Detroit did, prob not hard to think the problem would be too little freight traffic needed cause the city was a ghost town or something). I doubt you will see rail traffic into Manhattan, but perhaps if they beef up rail into the city limits, then smaller delivery trucks versus long haul rigs bringing cargo from elsewhere through the tunnels and bridges might help alleviate some of the congestion. Not even sure if we had kept the westside yards in the 60's or the one where Hudson Yards is now if it would have helped much, since you needed to get it from the yards to the various places in the city.
To me there is a small flash of history in the article, during Prohibition I remember reading in Stan Fischler's book that with people making wine and beer for themselves, that the South Brooklyn railroad had a pretty big business in things like wine grapes, beer and wine bottles, and malt extract and bags of barley malt and hops, sounds like the brewery influx has done the same for this line
