Bay Ridge Br Customers

Are there any freight customers on the Bay Ridge branch, or does it exist solely to connect with the car float and NS ?

Thanks

There are a few customers around the Brooklyn Terminal Market, and a thread not far from yours describes a walk down the Bay Ridge Branch and discusses them:

http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... 15&t=57962

Dave, Two of your friends from Branford walked a big part of that line a few years ago.
The other one, not me, lives in a apt. on Flatbush Ave & considers himself an expert on Bay Ridge goings on.
The quantity of "customers" has fallen in recent years, but I'll let the BMT Man say more.

DaveBarraza wrote:Are there any freight customers on the Bay Ridge branch, or does it exist solely to connect with the car float and NS ?

Thanks

CBS Foods, about a mile or so south of Fresh Pond

Gershow Recycling, right along the L Line in Brownsville (Brooklyn)

NYC Transit Linden Yard

Favorite Plastics, just down fro Linden Yard (NYCT)

Though I forgot the name, I think somewhere near Utica Avenu in that area along the line there is a beer/beverage distribution center which receives cars as well.

Though I forgot the name, I think somewhere near Utica Avenu in that area along the line there is a beer/beverage distribution center which receives cars as well.

That would be Manhattan Beer.

They also used to have business at Brooklyn Terminal Market as well. Don't know if they still get any cars.

Jay

Don't forget Heritage paper, Roselli (Brooklyn Resources), and Glenwood Mason.

Not sure if Heritage still gets cars anymore, I doubt it.

Check out this map of Heritage Paper: http://tinyurl.com/mshjxd

How did they unload cars across Van Sinderen Ave?

There was a concrete ramp and platfrom next to the track. They would just run a forklift across the street and thru a gate in the fence to the boxcars.

Dave, not sure if Glenwood Masonary is still getting cars, but one of the BIG customers on the line is The Auto Gobbler (recycling). There is a railcar scale built into the ROW behind that business which is between Ralph and Kings Highway, just down a ways from Favorite Plastics.

Obviously, with the slowed economy, alot of their local business has dropped off. I remember when the siding was added a few years back around E.56th Street for Manhattan Beer Distributors, so I would hope it's still being utilitized.

So how's your layout coming? Is it true your switches are pneumatic-powered?

So how's your layout coming? Is it true your switches are pneumatic-powered?

The like the real railroads I got tired of dealing with the air distribution! All new construction is using electrics. I like the Tam Valley Depot Servos.

Started the layout over again in 2012 when I moved to Queens. It will feature Bushwick, Fresh Pond, Farmingdale, Deer Park, Pine Aire, KO, Medford, Yaphank, and RIverhead. Also LIC and Greenport exist as places for the passenger trains to run to.

Currently Bushwick, Fresh Pond, and LIC have track laid and I'm working on staging tracks and Farmingdale.

Major customers will be Waste Management, Coastal, Astro Ready Mix, Emjay.
Minors are Manhattan Beer, Yang Ming, NY building supply, Marjam, ELM Global, Rock Tenn, Prima Asphalt, Gershow, Medford Team, Riverhead Building Supply, Paraco, Allied Extruders.

Because it's my universe, Fresh Direct (which in real life has the old Case Paper siding in LIC) is taking large shipments by rail. (Why don't they, I wonder?)

Went online tonight looking for photos of the Glenwood Mason loading dock. Looking to use it as a backdrop photo for the model railroad. I know it's likely a very difficult photo to get but anything would help

Thanks, Joe

DaveBarraza wrote:

So how's your layout coming? Is it true your switches are pneumatic-powered?

The like the real railroads I got tired of dealing with the air distribution! All new construction is using electrics. I like the Tam Valley Depot Servos.

Started the layout over again in 2012 when I moved to Queens. It will feature Bushwick, Fresh Pond, Farmingdale, Deer Park, Pine Aire, KO, Medford, Yaphank, and RIverhead. Also LIC and Greenport exist as places for the passenger trains to run to.

Currently Bushwick, Fresh Pond, and LIC have track laid and I'm working on staging tracks and Farmingdale.

Major customers will be Waste Management, Coastal, Astro Ready Mix, Emjay.
Minors are Manhattan Beer, Yang Ming, NY building supply, Marjam, ELM Global, Rock Tenn, Prima Asphalt, Gershow, Medford Team, Riverhead Building Supply, Paraco, Allied Extruders.

Because it's my universe, Fresh Direct (which in real life has the old Case Paper siding in LIC) is taking large shipments by rail. (Why don't they, I wonder?)

Do you post layout photos and/or progress here?

Been out of town a lot recently, but I post progress here:

davebarraza.wordpress.com