Yellow Freight Maybrook yard, days after closing in August, 2023

[@featurebroadcast297]

I worked at YFS , this location, from 1979 to 1989. I don't miss the work but I worked with some great guys. Local 707.

[@edsheon9669]

God bless old roadway. Yellow killed us.

[@bluesriderDF]

It's sad. I miss seeing the trucks roll by when I take a walk down Yellow Freight drive. I'd always give the drivers a wave.

[@nathansmith8183]

It’s 9/8/24 and not a thing has moved. If anything it seems more loaded with tractors and trailers.

[@bluesriderDF]

@@nathansmith8183 There was a ton of activity over the summer, people were lined up all the way down the road. A lot of tractors and trailers, we're hauled out. There was even a tragedy, a man was crushed when caught between a truck and a trailer.

[@DA0470]

Norfolk Southern should build a storage yard, an intermodal yard, plus an automotive handling yard in Maybrook.

[@northbysoutheast5439]

That is a huge facility

[@bluesriderDF]

It is, but it's only 1/6th the size of the railroad yard that was there before it.

[@OldCBnGuns]

@@bluesriderDFI thought a railroad yard was here before it. I stopped by and noticed this huge yellow yard when traveling

[@bluesriderDF]

Yes, the town of Maybrook was a huge railroad center. There is still an old yard building and the concrete base of a water tower in the woods nearby. If you are curious, you can see these on Google Earth. I've worked just down the road from this place for the past 30 years.

[@davidschlichting2191]

From what I heard today R&L Carriers is looking to get their hands on that property

[@bluesriderDF]

There was an auction last month, and there's been a steady flow of equipment, trucks & trailers being removed from the site.

[@beckyumphrey2626]

I was employed at Eastern Airlines when the Union killed the company. 24 years I.gave them. ZERO pension.

[@bluesriderDF]

Wow, that really stinks!!! Lots of people hurt by this kind of thing.

[@coryable8256]

I drove rigs for 30 years, I think that's the biggest terminal I've ever seen. So sad.

[@bluesriderDF]

I have an hour commute, and big rigs are just things I want to pass. But the economic system would be at a standstill without them! I'm really surprised in the day and age of buying everything online that they went under.

[@coryable8256]

They're not the first bro, I was last driving for Overnight Transportation and UPS bought them out. Consolidated freight and many more. Long time ago. Big chapter in my life.@@bluesriderDF

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Overnite was awesome.

[@jj_blizz]

1985 part time 12.99 A Hour it was the best job in the hudson valley but it was 29 and out so they say 1 day short of making the union if you missed a day or was late you didn't get in the union and you were out the door on your 30-day trial you worked holidays weekends nights but you can't pay city drivers to sit in the Newburgh Mall and watch the girls when they're supposed to be delivering freight

[@harleydave2316]

what is the importance of this place to you? Did you work there?

[@bluesriderDF]

At 3:20, top center of the frame, is the place where I've worked for 30 years. I would often take a walk down the road to the entrance of Yellow Freight on my lunch break, even through the winters, just for exercise and to clear my head. I'd always see trucks coming and going and we'd wave to each other. Yellow Freight was the largest employer in this town, and 30,000 people across the US were laid off as a result, which is a shame. Nothing lasts forever as they say. 😔 Thanks for asking!

[@harleydave2316]

@@bluesriderDF ahhh... Sorry to hear that man! Hope you find a new job if you hadn't already.

[@bluesriderDF]

@harleydave2316 Oh i'm still employed at the same place. This freight yard was our neighbor.

[@edsheon9669]

We took pay chucks an pensions

[@RealSuperRando]

Another company strangled to death by a union.