Re: (erielack) Binghamton Gas Suppliers

["Tom Beckett" <tabeckett_@_stny.rr.com>]

The pipeline terminals are all in Vestal, close to the Vestal Spur, but none 
of them are or were rail served, to my knowledge.

Agway still is an NS customer, but YO yard that it was adjacent to has long 
been torn up, with only a single track left as a switching lead. The lumber 
yard you refer to is Belknap Lumber, which is still on the west side of 
Binghamton right at the Johnson City line. The siding is still there, but I 
don't think I've seen a car in there in over ten years. The large 
manufacturing facility may have been part of EJ, which had a huge warehouse 
along the south side of the Erie tracks between Lester Av and Willow St, 
which has been unused for many years; there was also a plant on the north 
side of the tracks bgetween Lester Av and Airport Rd/Downs Av in 
Binghamton(EJ Paracord) which was recently torn down and the property 
cleared to build a printing plant for Gannett Newspapers, which will produce 
the Binghamton, Elmira, and Ithaca papers there. It is not rail served.

Akel Wholesale Grocery-a/k/a Binghamton Giant Markets-had a siding to their 
warehouse on Oakdale Rd, but I don't think they've received a car in at 
least ten or 15 years.

There was a company in west Endicott-whose name escapes me now, aging brain 
cells-right where the EL went under NY 17C, that made plastic drainage pipe. 
The factory burned to the ground in a spectacular fire right before 
Christmas in 1988. What remained of the building was razed, but the siding 
is still there. The property is still vacant. They moved to Waverly, but are 
located on the ex LV just north of where it crosses under the EL.

IBM-Owego had a siding, now removed. I never saw anything spotted there.

There are undoubtedly other rail customers, notably EJ, but their 
fortunes-and rail use-declined greatly in the 60's and 70's.

Tom B

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>
To: "EL Mailing List" <erielack_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 6:31 AM
Subject: (erielack) Binghamton Gas Suppliers


> While we're on this subject, can anyone provide some sort of list of rail
> customers in the Bingo-Endicott area in the 1970's? I know there was one 
> of
> the ubiquitous Agway grain silos and I think a lumber/building supplies
> dealer in Bingo. There was a large mfg facility in Johnson City which was
> derelict by the late 60's. Any others?
>
> Paul B
>
> From: "Richard Recordon" <recordor_@_comcast.net>
> Subject: (erielack) Binghamton Gas Suppliers
>
> Perhaps more relative to the discussion would be the location of the 
> nearest
> pipeline terminals to Binghamton, rather than refineries. 



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