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Title: New York City Feight Rail Lines, 2009

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 2009

Summary

New York City Feight Rail Lines, 2009 is a line theme of major freight rail lines in New York City and Long Island. Attribute data include the name of the line, name of the railroad, use, owner/operator and type of train service. Raw data was acquired from files from the New York State Department of Transportation. The freight rail line files represent the location of the major rail centerlines and junctions as shown on 1:100,000 scale source materials. Data is provided in the projection NAD83 to align with the NYCMap basemap. The realigned data has not been thoroughly checked for accuracy.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Queens (New York, N.Y.)
  • Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
  • Kings County (N.Y.)
  • Queens County (N.Y.)
  • New York County (N.Y.)
  • Nassau County (N.Y.)
  • Essex County (N.Y.)
  • NYC
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-74.254906, -71.951586, 41.111332, 40.494292)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-74.254906, -71.951586, 41.111332, 40.494292)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

CommunityCartography, Halcrow Group Limited. New York City Feight Rail Lines, 2009. Line data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-halcrow_freightline_nyc_2009

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English