Morrisville Yard is a

rail yard A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or u ...

used by

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for trains on its

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. It is located about two miles west of the

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state capital, Trenton, in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, and is accessible via the Morrisville-Trenton Railroad Bridge on the

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maintains a

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at its western end. The Morrisville Yard was originally a freight yard for the

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, and later

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(NJT) took over partial control of the site and commissioned STV to expand and modernize it in phases. The facility is equipped with repair and maintenance shops, train washing facilities, communications offices, and crew quarters, In 2004, NJT opened a new facility at the site to replace the haphazard collection of storage tracks around the Trenton Station complex known as the Barracks Yard. Another expansion of the yard was opened in 2008. This not only increased the absolute number of trains that could be stored at the end of the line, but also reduced the number of relay movements needed to position trains at the correct platform at the

Trenton Transit Center Trenton Transit Center is the main passenger train station in Trenton, New Jersey. It is the southernmost stop in New Jersey on the Northeast Corridor. It is the terminus for NJ Transit trains to and from New York City and SEPTA Trenton Line ...

. Capacity was also increased by a

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so that trains no longer needed to cross all 4 mainline tracks to access their storage tracks.

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