County Yard is a rail yard complex comprising Adams Yard, Delco Lead, and the eponymous County Yard along the Northeast Corridor (NEC). The complex straddles the New Brunswick and North Brunswick border in Central New Jersey.
Originally developed by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it is owned by Amtrak. The New Jersey Transit Rail Operations (NJT) Jersey Avenue Station (at milepoint 34.4) served by its Northeast Corridor Line, is just south of County Yard, and just north of Adams Yard and Delco Lead. In 2014, NJT began a project to upgrade the yard and build a "train haven" and re-inspection station.[1][2] County Yard will be able to store 132 rail cars. The aforementioned Delco Lead, further south along NEC, would be expanded to five additional tracks able to park 312 rail cars and a service and inspection facility would be built to return equipment to service.[3][4][5][6]
- ^ "County Yard". NJT. Archived from the original on December 2, 2014. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
The plan is to expand the passenger train storage yard from its current footprint to include an unused part of an adjacent rail freight yard. By expanding the footprint to 13 acres and constructing more and longer tracks, NJ TRANSIT will be able to accommodate 150 electrified rail passenger cars as a safe harbor from any storm. Combining this with the reconfiguration and improvement of the existing long freight track extending west (Delco Lead) and connecting to the Mid-Line Loop, storage of another 260 plus passenger rail cars may be possible
- ^ "State to pick up half of $368 million cost to flood proof NJ Transit train storage". NJ.com. April 2015.
- ^ "Tell NJ Transit your opinion about the New Brunswick train yard expansion". NJ.com. April 2015. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
- ^ "Train station could be moved to build flood-proof rail yard". NJ.com. December 2015. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
- ^ http://njtransitresilienceprogram.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/DelcoLead_EnvAssessment_-web.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/capital/tcp16/sec6/njtransit.pdf [bare URL PDF]