Particularly interesting is the tidbit in the middle of the article that there is no freight rail crossing of the Hudson River south of Selkirk[0], near Albany. So any freight train that wants to travel between NYC (except Staten Island) and points west must go almost 150 miles North of the city.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 15.2 ms ] thread[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkirk_hurdle