Home Depot has signed a deal to bring high-demand construction supplies, destined for its stores on Long Island, Queens and Brooklyn, by rail to the Brookhaven Rail Terminal in Yaphank.
http://www.newsday.com/business/home-depot-to-stock-up-li-stores-via-rail-terminal-1.4916296
Brookhaven Rail Terminal’s freight car, loaded with home building materials for Superstorm Sandy victims, arrives on the New York State
side of the New York New Jersey Railroad (NYNJRR) rail car float across the Hudson River.
Brookhaven Rail Terminal received their first shipment of lumber for a local fencing supplier. The load originated in the state of Washington.
Brookhaven Rail Terminal is Long Island’s Sustainable rail freight solution providing terminal service, transloading services, logistics, container freight stations/container yard, and distribution services.
Legislator Tom Muratore (R, Ronkonkoma) was recently invited to tour the Brookhaven Rail Terminal, located in Yaphank on a large industrial site adjacent to Exit 66 of the Long Island Expressway.
Editorial published: August 31, 2012
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/editorial-rail-depots-can-reduce-long-island-traffic-1.3943101
A company that imports biodiesel by rail for eventual use as heating oil in Long Island homes officially opened its facility at the Brookhaven Rail Terminal in Yaphank Thursday.
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/heating-oil-rail-facility-opens-in-yaphank-1.3849245
PDF of Full Article – July 19 12 Newsday
A 10-month-old private rail venture is taking thousands of trucks off the Long Island Expressway in a region that is among the nation’s most reliant on road freight.
A story about Brook haven Rail Terminal on CBS News which aired last week.
View Story on CBS New York web site
BRT has added it’s third customer this week, receiving the first carloads of flour for Wenner Bread. BRT now handles inbound shipments of stone, biodiesel and flour and outbound shipments of sand.
Every day on the Long Island Expressway, you see rumbling 18-wheel evidence for the need to get trucks off our roads. The trucks bang up pavement, spew fumes and contribute to traffic congestion. But we’ve been slow to use rail instead. So the opening of a new rail freight terminal in Yaphank is a small but hopeful step on the way to road sanity.
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/shipping-by-rail-not-the-lie-1.3219859