Maybrook Yard

It was the western gateway of its long-time owner, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and its predecessors.

It was here that freight cars were interchanged between railroads from the west and the New Haven, whose Maybrook Line headed east over the Poughkeepsie Bridge to the railroad's main freight yard at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, Connecticut.

The yard was transformed after control of the Maybrook Line was purchased in 1904 by the New Haven who saw it as an easier way to get their heavy freight traffic across the Hudson River than using barges in New York City.

[1] Traffic through the yard ended abruptly in 1974 when the Poughkeepsie Bridge burned and was not repaired, severing the Maybrook Line.

Rail service is still provided to customers in Maybrook by the Middletown and New Jersey Railroad on tracks owned by Norfolk Southern.