by railfan482
Has anyone ever seen/heard of mechanical reefers being unloaded at team tracks, instead of a dedicated facility?
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RS115 wrote:Don't remember who the consignee was but back in the mid-late 1970's at least someone would periodically receive reefers at the Morristown & Erie team track in Whippany.I definitely remember seeing Mech Reefers being unloaded as late as the early 1990s in the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ - The smooth paved section (think it was gravel) alongside the East side of the tracks south of Albert Avenue. in this Bing image - the siding (south facing) is still there in the Bing view. From time to time there would be a Mech Reefer spotted on this siding (don't recall more than one) with a box-truck backed up to the door. It wasn't all the time, and not sure the last time they unloaded there (there is an open air 'Terminal' market - fruit/vegatable market - a block to the East, as can be seen on the Bing view also), but reefers were unloaded there into the 1990s.