Fresh Pond Junction

Fresh Pond Junction is a freight yard in the Ridgewood and Glendale neighborhoods of Queens in New York City.

Trains can travel from Fresh Pond Junction to the mainland in two directions: The Fresh Pond Junction freight facility comprises two yards, west (5 tracks) and east (9 tracks), both of which parallel the NY&A Montauk Branch.

[3] Nearby is Fresh Pond Yard, a separate and unconnected facility of the New York City Subway.

The Providence and Worcester Railroad (P&W) brings stone and gravel southbound on their CHFP train from Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, Connecticut, on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings, and runs the cars back to Cedar Hill empty on their FPCH train on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings.

NY&A uses the yard as an interchange yard, taking the freight from the CSX and P&W trains and delivering it to destinations on Long Island or down the Bay Ridge Branch and across the Upper New York Bay via New York New Jersey Rail.

New York and Atlantic system map. Fresh Pond Junction is located at the top of the " J "-shaped branch, lower left.
South gate