Talk:New York and Atlantic Railway

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Derailment discussion needs NPOV treatment

Derailment discussion needs NPOV treatment. The section's tone is also is not suitable for an encyclopedia.--KJRehberg (talk) 18:34, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've tagged it for update. Absent more I'm inclined to remove the section.

--agr (talk) 19:47, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

List of customers

NYA has a list of customers on its website. I don't think this is suitable for inclusion, for several reasons:

This information is likely to change, and would require constant attention
There's no third-party corroboration
The individual customers don't appear to be notable

The list on the NYA website includes external links and a short list of commodities. That's not information we can reasonable include here. Mackensen (talk) 18:05, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK But if you noticed there was a THIRD PARTY map with all of the customers on it, and the existence of these customers can be verified by a. looking at aerial views of their rail sidings on google maps/ bing maps. and b. I can give it the attention the list needs as I track freight rail on LI VERY closely, and if a customer starts/stops receiving cars, I would most probably know. If you still don't want it, can you post your reasons here before deleting it?RR325 (talk) 21:07, 11 October 2014 (UTC)RR325[reply]

None of this sounds encyclopedic. I saw that map--who made it? By third-party I was referring to reliable sources. Put another way, the railroad is notable. Their customer list, by itself, probably isn't. No one's writing anything about NYA's customers (compare the Juice Train). This is never going to be more than a bare list of links which don't go anywhere. If NYA's website were better-designed I'd suggest linking directly to the list in the External Links section. Mackensen (talk) 21:16, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
http://railnewyork.com they made it (with some help) here is proof: http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=115&t=86065

I 100% agree that by itself it isn't, but at the same time, it is what makes the railroad exist, and should be noted, as part of the information on it, and I disagree that no one is writing anything about their customers, waste management has a wiki page! Feel free to disagree with me!.RR325 (talk) 21:24, 11 October 2014 (UTC)RR325[reply]

Well, I looked at the first page the last page of the discussion and didn't see the proof. I'm not sure I'd want to accept Rail New York (an advocacy group) as a source either. There's already an uncited summary of NYA's traffic in the first paragraph. Mackensen (talk) 22:03, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Try the middle ones :) and look at NYCS (the person who runs rail new york), they have a link to the website and are obviously the people who run it. As for their traffic summary, where is it? Also, I think we may be misunderstanding each other about the "proof", the proof I am talking about is that they (Rail New York) made the map, not something else.

I understand your doubts, I just think that this should be included.RR325 (talk) 23:15, 11 October 2014 (UTC)RR325[reply]

Just for the record, I had some partial dealings with one customer that's not included; Eastport Feeds, an agricultural feed shop in Eastport, New York. Years ago on another drive to Long Island (this time with my family), my father wanted to get some pigeon food for a friend of the family from that place. I talked to one of the employees at the feed store, and they said they get rail service from NY&A and find it extremely unreliable. This was quite a while back, though, and I don't know if it'll influence anybody's decision to keep the list or not. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 05:20, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't make the company's listing (or service!) any more reliable. I still think the proper place for it--absent independent verification--is the company's website. Mackensen (talk) 05:24, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Equipment

The New York Times story from 2007 says 13 locomotives. The official site agrees. From the railfanning sites and picture archives (unreliable) we have 11. The Diesel Shop also says 11. Mackensen (talk) 12:20, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think that the NYTIMES story might have been including leased units, and the railfan sites are probably more reliable, as the people running them are following the issue closely. What do you think?RR325 (talk) 22:17, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, two things. First, railfan sites don't generally meet the definition of a reliable source so I'm loath to use them. Second, the official NYA site also says 13 locomotives. If the official site is wrong then we shouldn't use it as a source. Mackensen (talk) 12:23, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I will cede to the official site, they are probably counting leased units thoughRR325 (talk) 22:42, 16 October 2014 (UTC)RR325[reply]