page_title: List of New York City Subway yards
section_title: 240th Street Yard
hierarchical_section_title: List of New York City Subway yards / A Division yards / 240th Street Yard
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking southeast and down from Waldo Avenue at the IRT en:240th Street Yard west of the Cortlandt Line, full of idle 1 trains on a sunny midday.
context_page_description: The New York City Transit Authority operates a total of 24 rail yards for the New York City Subway system. There are 10 active A Division yards, 11 active B Division yards, two shared yards, one yard for the Staten Island Railway, and two non-revenue equipment yards. Of these yards, rolling stock are assigned to seven A Division yards and seven B Division yards. Within the yards are 14 maintenance and cleaning facilities, and two yards perform heavy maintenance and overhaul.
context_section_description: The 240th Street Yard, also known as Van Cortlandt Yard, is located at 5911 Broadway in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, serving the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line near the line's northern terminus. The yard consists of six inspection tracks in the shop and 15 additional layup tracks. The yard is home to the R62As and a single set of R62s assigned to the 1. The shop was built in 1906 to support the original IRT subway. The yard and shops are entirely on an elevated structure. There are 15 layup tracks, and six shop tracks. There is no car washer at this yard; the trains occasionally go to the 239th Street or Westchester Yard to be washed, but they usually go to the nearby 207th Street Yard instead. Ten cars undergo 10,000 mile SMS inspections per day, since their entire fleet has been unitized into five-car sets.
caption: 240th Street Yard layup tracks
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