New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway

The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway ( NYS & W) - also known as Susie -Q or The Susquehanna - is a U.S. railway company for freight transport. Over a distance of over 800 km ( 500 miles ), the company operates in the northeastern U.S. states of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

NYS & W was created in 1881 from a merger of several small railway companies. Until 1966 passengers were carried, among others, was offered a commuter traffic between the northern part of New Jersey and New York City.

In 1980 the company was acquired by the Delaware Otsego Corporation. She grew into a regional player in the transport of freight by various modes of transport: NYS & W transported containers ( including Sealand and Hanjin ) as part of a land bridge between the U.S. state of Delaware, the Hudson River and the railway company CSX Transportation. After she lost this function in the late 1990s to the railway company CSX and Norfolk Southern, NYS & W uses the freight transport continues through transport of industrial waste and other goods. End of 2006, the transport of construction waste for the largest share of NYS & W's long-distance journeys dar.