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Re: S. Phoenix residents say ''Four Lanes or No Train'' (Central Avenue corridor) |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Wed Sep 26 17:13:15 2018, in response to Re: S. Phoenix residents say ''Four Lanes or No Train'' (Central Avenue corridor), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Sep 26 13:37:29 2018. Yep. When Conrail took over in 1976, there was several carloading companies that shipped westbound goods by rail from the west side yards. There was Western Carloading, Universal fast freight forwarders, Wardex, etc just to name a few. All chased away to New Jersey.In 1978, Anhauser Busch Budweiser Beers sales were growing by leaps & bounds in the NYC metro area with the demise of local brews like Rheingold & Schaeffer. Their Newark brewery couldn't keep up with the demand so they approached Conrail. AB would guarantee on average 1000 carloads of beer per month in the spring summer & fall demand peaks to be shipped up from Atlanta & delevered to the 60th St & 12th Ave team tracks. This would be good for the railroads bottom line & would mean an increase in train traffic, increase of jobs to offload & truck out the brew to middleman distributers all over the tri state area. Conrail said no. They did not want any new business on the west side of Manhattan. Now weather or not someone from Conrail was in bed with land owner Penn Central Realty is open to speculation. My cynical mind tends to believe there was. |
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