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<P>[quote user="MP173"]Mr. Hadid:<BR><BR>Your comments please on the amount of freight currently moving into the New York City market. By "market" I am referring to the city, or immediate suburbs. I am not familiar with the NYC economy, nor the rail scene, but I would guess it is primarily a consuming market, with very little manufacturing....could be wrong tho. How much freight originates/terminates in the city or immediate suburbs? Is most of it intermodal? What about "boxcar" freight (including tank cars, covered hoppers, etc). I cannot imagine local crews street running in NYC with a old switcher and a couple of box cars and a few cars of scrap metal, like Chicago, but anything is possible.<BR><BR>ed<BR><BR>[/quote]</P> <P>MP173: New York City is still the No. 1 manufacturing city in the U.S., if you rank cities by jobs in manufacturing under U.S. Department of Labor classifications, edging out Chicago and Los Angeles if only slightly. On a tonnage basis the Port of New York and New Jersey was No. 3 in the U.S. in 2004, at 152 million tons (Los Angeles/Long Beach combined was a mere 131 million tons). It handed 4.8 million TEUs (2.8 million actual boxes) in 2005 vs. 14.1 million TEUs at Los Angeles/Long Beach.</P> <P>Don't think of New York just as some boroughs on islands, though -- the metro area includes northern New Jersey, where there is a tremendous volume of carload traffic both in and out, plus the ports and the intermodal and auto terminals. The city itself has very little carload traffic remaining.</P> <P>S. Hadid</P>
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