Complex sentence: Located adjacent to the Brooklyn Army Terminal, it provided a major link in the city's rail freight network in the first half of the twentieth century as it was used as a conventional railroad yard at the end of the LIRR/NY&A Bay Ridge Branch.
Split into simpler sentences: Located adjacent to the Brooklyn Army Terminal, it provided a major link in the city's rail freight network in the first half of the twentieth century. It was later used as a conventional railroad yard at the end of the LIRR/NY&A Bay Ridge Branch.