Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Black Rock Rail Yard is on the west side of Buffalo, New York, a half mile inland from the Niagara River, in the Black Rock neighborhood. The rail yard receives Canadian National Railway freight trains arriving from Canada by way of the International Railway Bridge. The yard is surrounded by old residential neighborhoods and some abandoned industrial facilities. To the north of the yard, beneath the tracks, runs Hertel Avenue. An abandoned portion of the north yard is now a automobile junk yard; Austin Street runs under the center of the yard. Most of the trackbed in the yard has been ripped up.