Well duh, FZ BERRYS is the commodity, not the consignee. That's pretty funny; this List can be quite entertaining with someone like me on it. So it was a stopoff car but not a partial load; the stopoff was for re-icing. It's the only frozen consignment in the consist. Binghamton Refrig Co was not a customer, it was a supplier, which may be why it doesn't appear in the Directory. I wonder where in Bingo it was located; you would think near the stations so it could also serve Erie and D&H. Prior List discussion puts a Grand Union warehouse at Rutherford NJ in the 1970's, so perhaps it was interchanged to Erie. NYMX was one of the reporting marks for Merchants Dispatch Transportation (MDT), a PRR subsidiary. I'm a little surprised the car wasn't adjacant to the meat block, as perishables ideally were grouped together to facilitate inspection and re-icing. Perhaps the way the car was received from the connection at Buffalo would have necessitated too much extra switching. This raises a couple of questions. Since perishables were customarily placed on the headend for the same reasons, is it possible this consist is listed in reverse order? Secondly, how was it decided where a car like this would be re-iced: was it pre-determined based on commodity and ambient temperature, was it based on inspection of the ice bunkers at E Buffalo, or both? I think perishables on DL&W were generally re-iced at Buffalo; it was unlikely this was done on this car since elapsed time to Bingo was only 6 or 7 hrs, and upstate NY is usually pretty chilly by Thanksgiving. Robert Stafford wrote: "Car NYNX 1016 looks like what we called a stop off in transit car, just stop off car for short. The H City could also be for Johnson City, NY, just outside of Binghamton." It's H City NJ, not NY. Also, you wouldn't re-ice a car that would be delivered locally. Paul B I thought it was a load of FroZen Berries that needed re-icing. Was there a consignee named FZ Berrys in JC? I don't see anything like that in the 1952 Directory of Industries and Facilities (nor can I find Grand Union or Binghamton Refrigeration Co. Maybe I'm reading the thing wrong)... Jim Harr NYMX 1016 FZ BERRYS H CTY NJ FINAL GRAND UNION CO S/O AT BINGH NY PU BINGH REFGN CO 2ND The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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