One is owned by the Staten Island Railway (SIR) and the other is managed by Conrail Shared Assets Operations along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) right of way.
The SIR line's grade separated flyover of the NEC is located just north of the Linden station.
[1][2] ExpressRail traffic from Howland Hook Marine Terminal and the containers from the Staten Island Transfer Station at the site of the former Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island may pass through Linden Yard.
The SIR Line from Cranford to Staten Island over the Arthur Kill Bridge was originally constructed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from 1889 to 1890.
The Conrail yard is located northwest of the Linden Airport and also northwest of the brownfield site where a General Motors (GM) plant used to be located (the GM Linden Assembly plant closed in 2005 and was demolished in 2008[5]).