tahawus84 wrote:I thought the pc richards siding was the one by rt 110 that is by price parkway? Also I thought those cars were for salesmaster but I guess you might be right they are for astro as salesmaster sells flooring materials not gravel
Well, there's several PC Richards warehouses I guess - the one in Farmingdale which I think was the old White Rose center, and this one in Deer Park on Commack Road - both could have been rail-served, and if this was the 1960s they would have been, with 60ft Hi-Cubes Boxcars of appliances.
Google Maps claims SalesMaster is the last building on the North Side of Marcus Blvd right before Marcus sharply turns South - in the G-Map link I posted, this would be where the last (Western-most) hopper car is. The logistics of Astro-Ready have to be rather funky - I guess they use trucks to take the material from the storage yard on the South side of the LIRR Main, up around to their main processing plant on Long Island Avenue (North side of LIRR Main) - I can't make out any sort of conveyor above or under the Main, although it may be hard to tell with Google Maps.
There was a thread awhile back about problems with Salesmaster deliveries - well, with so many hoppers coming in now, you'd figure they could tack on a bulkhead flat/boxcar or two of building materials for Salesmaster too.