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The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) completed construction of the yard in 1910. [1]: 93 At that time, Sunnyside was the largest coach yard in the world, occupying 192 acres (0.78 km 2) and containing 25.7 miles (41.4 km) of track.
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It was originally constructed to allow trains from the Montauk Branch to directly access Sunnyside Yard, [1] which was opened by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1910. [ 11 ] : 161 As a flying junction , the Montauk Cutoff also allowed efficient transport of freight by separating it from the tracks leading to the also newly-constructed East River ...
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The station is classified as a high priority under the Sunnyside Yard Master Plan. [4] The MTA later proposed in their 2025-2044 20-year needs assessment that Sunnyside station serve both the LIRR and the Metro-North Railroad, with the latter providing service to Penn Station after Penn Station Access is completed. [5]
This article is a list of important rail yards in geographical order. These listed may be termed Classification, Freight, Marshalling, Shunting, or Switching yards, which are cultural terms generally meaning the same thing no matter which part of the world's railway traditions originated the term of art.
This can be thought of as the plan view which is a view of a 3-dimensional track from the position above the track. In track geometry, the horizontal layout involves the layout of three main track types: tangent track (straight line), curved track , and track transition curve (also called transition spiral or spiral ) which connects between a ...