NYA Customers that haven't seen much action lately

Best Lumber left their facility in Speonk. OOB? 3-6 cars per week when they used Speonk Yard. Used to be switched with Eastport Feeds and Pulver Gas. 84 Lumber is still a customer in Islip. Haven't seen a car for Velvetop (Islip Team Track) in awhile. Served by RS80 at night.

Eastport Feed is gone according to NY&A Conductor Frank Knauf. I am not sure what ever happened to them or what ever became of them. The only NY&A customers east of Babylon are Velvetop Products and 84 Lumber in Islip and Pulver Gas in Bridgehampton. This all I know as of right now,things may change;Im not sure.

Blame NYA for not bringing the cars to eastport.Donnie the owner of eastport feed said that NYA didnt want to come out with 1 or 2 cars because of fuel for the locomotives. The same for Pulver Gas they use to get 5 cars a week, then it went to every 2 weeks and now its been 7 weeks since the last delivery of 5 cars to Pulver.

Rail customers are hard to get back after they are lost.....NYA should really consider it's hard-ass approach with it's east of Islip customers. They were hard-assed with their east of Greenlawn customers a few years back. Too bad.

As much as it stinks nya is a for-profit company and if it costs them to make the delivery it does not make sense. I do not think there are many business that will offer a service at a loss long term just to be nice.

True, true.....but if those customers east of Greenlawn on the Port Jefferson Branch, east of Riverhead on the Main Line & east of Islip on the Montauk Branch say they can be switched more than once or twice a month, I hope NYA finds it doable....

Pulver gas in Bridgehampton was getting 5 cars once a week then every 2 weeks now like I said in the earlier post its been over 7 weeks since the last deliverly.It seems they dont like going that far east and getting back to Fresh Pond between 4 and 5 pm.

I had to take Sunrise Highway to get to the Meadowbrook Pkwy. the other day, and I could've sworn the covered hopper spotted on that spur in Freeport just west of the Meadowbrook was gone. Am I correct? Did NYA pull it out of there? Thanks.

Not sure if they came from Pulver, but there were 3 LPG cars on the CSX run to Oak Point Saturday (59 cars total).

rb wrote:Not sure if they came from Pulver, but there were 3 LPG cars on the CSX run to Oak Point Saturday (59 cars total).

They are probably for Paraco in Riverhead.

Teutobergerwald wrote:I had to take Sunrise Highway to get to the Meadowbrook Pkwy. the other day, and I could've sworn the covered hopper spotted on that spur in Freeport just west of the Meadowbrook was gone. Am I correct? Did NYA pull it out of there? Thanks.

I am going to have to second this - I was going from the Meadowbrook onto Sunrise, and the covered hopper was not visible (usually you could see about a third of the hopper visible from right after where the WB off-ramp merges into Sunrise. Having a few minutes to spare, I then made a few turns and ended up on the Street than runs in front of Quality Lienals (Bennington Ave.) This street sort of dead-ends in a 'T', the North of the 'T' being the 'open-air hiring hall' (not gonna go into that). Even from this area I could not see the covered hopper anymore. The north end of the T is blocked to vehicle traffic, but otherwise seems open to pedestrian access (there are two goal net in that area - for a minute I wondered "Hockey?!?" until I realized "Oh, soccer/futbol"). Anyway, not wanting to talk with the Freeport Police, I did not walk into that area to get closer to the tracks, so while I can confirm the freight car was moved, I cannot say if it was shoved further into the siding (from Bing, it looks like this is possible) or if it has been taken away for scrapping.
I must admit I found it odd that there were quite a number of truck bodies on jacks at the end of Bennington - both Van bodies and flatbeds. Some were parked (placed) in front of Quality Lineals too - is this a form of (non-railroad) intermodal they do (maybe a better terms is modular storage and transport, like PODS)?

84 Lumber in Islip is out of business.