ExpressRail

ExpressRail is a network of on- or near-dock rail yards supporting intermodal freight transport at the major container terminals of the Port of New York and New Jersey. The development of dockside trackage and rail yards for transloading has been overseen by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which works in partnership with other public and private stakeholders. As of 2019, four ExpressRail facilities were in operation, with a total built capacity of 1.5 million lifts.^[1]

Various switching and terminal railroads, including Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CRCX) on the Chemical Coast Secondary connect to the East Coast rail freight network carriers Norfolk Southern (NS) and CSX Transportation (CSX).^[2]^[3] Overall, the entire Express Rail system handled 433,000 containers in 2012, about 12 percent of the port’s total container volume.^[4] In the year period ending October 2014 the total amount of TEUS of Intermodal containers handled at the port included 391,596 rail lifts.^[5] Subsequent years have seen further increases in volume,^[6] rising to 646,000 lifts in 2018,^[1] and to 700,000 in 2020.^[7]

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^ "Loaded Containers in TEUs and Total ExpressRail Lifts by Month". PANYNJ. October 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
^ "Loaded Containers in TEUs and Total ExpressRail Lifts". PANYNJ.
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