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Oak Island Yard

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Freight rail yard in Newark, New Jersey

Oak Island Yard is afreight rail yard located north ofPort Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal andNewark International Airport in an industrial area ofIronbound,Newark, New Jersey at 91 Bay Ave.,United States. The sprawling complex includesengine house,classification yard, auto unloading terminal, and maintenance facilities. It has ten reception tracks, an automatedhump, 30 relatively short classification tracks, and nine departure tracks. In 1999, it classified 800 to 1000cars per day.

The yard was built by theLehigh Valley Railroad and opened 1903. After construction of theUpper Bay Bridge in 1929 vast amounts of landfill were used to raise the yard to accommodate the new grade.^[1] It became part of theConsolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) in 1976, and in 1981 Conrail greatly expanded it.^[2] Currently it is jointly owned as part ofNorth Jersey Shared Assets Area by theNorfolk Southern Railway andCSX, which took over Conrail operations in 1999.^[3]^[4] It is a support yard for thePort of New York and New Jersey ExpressRail system.

Several lines converge at the yard.

TheConrail Lehigh Line travels to the west passing over theNortheast Corridor to run parallelRaritan Valley Line just west of theHunter Connection. The Conrail Lehigh Line began operations in 1999 from theoriginal Lehigh Line and took over Oak Island Yard access operations from the original Lehigh Line.
ThePassaic and Harsimus Line runs through the yard and heads north to cross thePassaic River andHackensack River toMarion Junction.
TheChemical Coast, known as the Garden State Secondary line heads south between the port and the airport.
To the east lies theLehigh Valley Railroad Bridge which spansNewark Bay to theNational Docks Secondary to theUpper New York Bay.