by Steampunk
Does Wegmans supermarkets get any warehouse deliveries by rail?
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Moderator: Otto Vondrak
Steampunk wrote:You would think someone as progressive of Wegmans would be all into this....Speaking of which do they get any Reefer Cars or who does get Reefer Cars in Rochester? I have seen them around
CPSD40-2 wrote:Generally relevant to the conversation, the P&C warehouse in Syracuse used to have rail service that went into the building. I am not sure when they stopped servicing them, but even before the building was closed down as P&C went through bankruptcy, the wall was bricked over and the switch was taken out.The P&C warehouse stopped taking in rail service around 1995 or 1996. The switch was still in place up till about 200? something I remember seeing a 25 ton railroad crane parked on there a few times. The Overhead door where the rail cars went in is still in place and was replaced with a standard over head garage door the guys used to open the door at night to let cool air in the building in the summer.
Otto Vondrak wrote:I'll blow this one wide open and mention that the A&P warehouse that was located on the NYC/PC Putnam Division at East View was good for ten reefers a day until it shut down in1 1975. This was the only thing keeping this segment of track in service, and the Put was immediately cut back to Chauncey.
There was a Grand Union warehouse located in Mount Kisco on the NYC/PC Harlem Division, and they were getting deliveries until the early 1990s when that operation shut down. Siding was finally removed in 1998 or so.
Any other major supermarket warehousing operations served by rail in New York State?
-otto-
Hudsonrail wrote:Otto, Do you know of any photos that exist showing of the Grand Union and A&P warehouses.There's pictures of PC switching out the A&P warehouse in East View in my book "Forgotten Rairoads Through Westchester County," p. 29 and 30.
Stan Madyda
umtrr-author wrote:Another possibility, about which I know nothing... How about the A&P / Ann Page facility down in Elmira? (It hasn't been a grocery warehouse for some time.)Nor has it been a warehouse for some time either - as it was demolished to make way for a couple of shopping centers in 2006.