Re: (erielack) re:A&P facility . . .

["Schuyler G Larrabee" <sgl2_@_ix.netcom.com>]

Ah, well, I hesitate to differ, but I wonder if some of the outbound cars
might not be loaded with a diverse load of foodstuffs, headed to some other
A&P distribution point.  I mean, sure, an entire carload of onions from
Gilroy if you want, but an outbound could have onions, peanut butter, jam,
mustard, coffee (8:00 O'Clock, of course), rasins, pasta, whatever, to stock
a store or group of stores in some local area.

Or do you, Randy, >know< differently, that it wasn't done that way?

I remember when A&P built that facility, in the late 60's or 70's?  What I
understood was that it was a concept ahead of its time, and that it was too
big.  A&P tried to serve too large an area from it, and it didn't work out
the way it was conceptualized.  But I do NOT know that for sure.

SGL
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From: Janet & Randy Brown <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>
To: <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 6:01 PM
Subject: (erielack) re:A&P facility . . .


> . . .or any other food distributor.  They seldom made food -- or any other
product.  They bought them and resold them.  Inbounds would be anything you
could buy at the store; outbounds would be empties, or empties with
returning pallets.  Many cars would be "assigned" by the origin or
destination railroad and would run captive: loaded one way, empty the other
by reverse route.
>
> Your waybills should reflect your affection for reality.  Real: onions
from Gilroy, CA, via WP-DRGW-MP-GM&O-Erie.  Whimsical: onions from Gilroy,
CA, via WP-GN-CP-SOO-Erie or WP-ATSF-SD&AE- NdeM-T&P-MP-GM&O-Erie . . . or
whatever you think will give your crews a chuckle.  After all, they still
have to drill out the car.
>
> Anything you can or could buy came from some origin to a warehouse for
final distribution by :=( truck.  Have some fun!
>
> Randy Brown ELHS#16
>

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