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(erielack) Re: Youngstown Perishables
Steve, Steve and Group,
I did a little more research on this topic. I have a list of EL customers in the "Central Territory", which encompasses the heavily industrialized NE Ohio region including Y'town, Cleveland, Akron as well as Sharon, PA; this was sent to me by Steve Twarogowski about a year ago. It's not dated, although since it doesn't list A&P it must be from the mid-70's. It lists the following nine customers in the Youngstown Territory (I excluded beer and wine distributors):
Golden Dawn Foods Sharon, PA EL Wholesale Grocer
Shenago Valley Provision Sharon, PA EL Wholesale Meat
Frito-Lay Wheatland, PA EL Potato Chips
Feldman Bros. Youngstown EL Produce
General Foods Youngstown YS Groceries
Kaleel Bros. Youngstown EL Produce
Kessler Foods Youngstown EL Warehouse
Tamarkin Youngstown EL Groceries
Thorofare Markets Youngstown EL Groceries
(Wheatland is on the Newcastle branch.)
In contrast, the Cleveland territory listed only 4 customers, Akron only 1. I also reviewed Paul's SF-100 consist of Feb, 1976. It hauled the bulk of EL east coast carload perishables at that time, and there were 4 such loads. So it does indeed appear that the Youngstown territory was the leading perishable market for EL in the 1970's.
Steve, any idea of the volume of perishable TOFC and how it was handled, ie: via the Akron or Sharon ramps, or was some drayed from Chicago?
Finally, concerning spuds, what proportion came from Maine vs west? There's a photo in EL in Color vol 1 showing a half-dozen icers of inbound Maine seed potatoes on the Mantua team track in 1969. The caption mentions the area is a "strong potato producing area", and that a Dan-Dee potato chip plant was located in Mantua. The fact that it's not listed as an EL customer may indicate it used locally-grown spuds.
Paul B
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From: Smtimko_@_aol.com
To: doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net ; erielack@lists.railfan.net ; stwarogowski@windstream.net
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Youngstown Perishables
Paul and group---
I don't recall any public team tracks that served auctions, terminals, etc in Youngstown.
All four major railroads (Erie, B&O, PRR and NYC) had their own freight houses and team tracks. The P&LE was a part of the Erie's via the Terminal Warehouse, later switching to the NYC's Freight House.
Only the B&O served the team track near downtown on a short industrial track from their Hazelton Yard. The EL Operator at NK Target (on the Haselton Branch) had to run down a release and then throw a hand-operated target to allow the B&O crew to cross the PRR's E&A Branch. I worked this job at NK Target when I first started in 1965. NK Target was a first step for new operators.
Just venturing a guess, but I would think the perishable traffic to Youngstown was a dozen cars a day on EL fwhen I started (including the cars from the NYC transfer), declining somewhat toward the end of EL as A&P closed and piggyback took it's toll on carload traffic.
SMT
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