Re: (erielack) Gallo Wine Traffic

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Gallo traffic to Syosset was on the LIRR Port Jefferson Branch, not the Oyster Bay Branch.

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From: tommy meehan 
Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 6:30 am
Subject: (erielack) Gallo Wine Traffic
To: erielack 

> 
> Thanks to everyone for the responses. I was wondering if Pat or 
> anyone can
> comment on the routing of the Gallo traffic, if there is 
> anything in the
> lists he had that show the Elizabeth cars were switched to SE98 
> (the CNJ
> runthrough) at, I guess, Taylor yard? I think the cars headed 
> for the Long
> Island points were carfloated via Jersey City, probably to Long Island
> City. Some LIRR fans say that some of those cars were probably 
> headed to a
> Gallo warehouse in Syosset on the Oyster Bay Branch. I wonder if 
> they could
> have been billed to the agent at Farmingdale, not sure they 
> still had an
> agent at Syosset by the 1970s. That Gallo (and successor 
> Southern) received
> traffic at Syosset until just a few years ago when service 
> became too
> sporadic. For many years, possibly dating back to the late EL 
> period just
> before Conrail, some of the traffic had been switched to trailers,
> offloaded in New Jersey and driven out onto the Island.
> 
> HathiTrust digital library has a lot of ICC reports on line and 
> I have seen
> cases from the 1970s involving rates on EL traffic offloaded in 
> northernNew Jersey and trucked to LIRR.
> 
> tommy meehan
> 
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