149th Street Harlem Station

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It looks like a very interesting prototype to model Matt. Was there a main commodity for this terminal or anything and everything for freight?

Here's some excellent information:

http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/indloco/errhs.html

There was specfic commodities because the station served specific customers. On pictures, you can see many coal dealers have their shed on the property at specific car spot (which is interesting from operation standpoint). From what I can understand, each customer had it's own dedicated siding/car sport

There was 1 carfloat per day in 1951, with an average of 12-car per day (about 2000 per year). It seems, that year, there was operation on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Tenants in 1952 were:

Bay Transportation
Jerome Fuel Co.
Mirandi Coal Co.
National Carloading
Adolf Gobel (future tenant)
Gerosa Crane
United Cigar Box
HudFord
Brill

Coal was a major commodity. Lots of photo also show machinery.

I'll quote the Trainweb article:

Inbound commodities such as: canned goods, heavy construction equipment, feed, grain, furniture, steel pipe, rugs, lumber and evaporated milk are listed as having been consigned through the Harlem Station. Another of the significant inbound commodities was coal.

Outbound freight consisted of waste paper, rags, machinery and conveyors.

Well, it was quite diversified.

Matt