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New York Connecting Railroad
The
New York Connecting Railroad
or
NYCR
is a rail line in the
borough
of
Queens
in
New York City
. It links New York City and
Long Island
by rail directly to the North American mainland.
Amtrak
,
CSX
,
Canadian Pacific Railway
,
Providence and Worcester Railroad
and
New York and Atlantic Railway
currently use the line. It runs from the
Hell Gate Bridge
over the
East River
to
Fresh Pond Junction
yard in
Glendale
. It was completed in 1917. Amtrak uses the northernmost section of the line from
Sunnyside Junction
(
Bowery Bay
) in the
Woodside
section of
Queens
to the Hell Gate Bridge into
the Bronx
from which it follows the line north to
Boston
.
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