by Slushbucket
I am doing research on M&L branch operations for a possible N-scale layout. In the following two videos by the late Richard 'Moose' Ouellette on nhrrman's YouTube, you can see a coil steel car being switched near a building next to the old Grossman's Lumber (now gone and replaced by Tuscan Kitchen), behind the Agway (now Dodge Grain).
https://youtu.be/_XodZw673Qc?t=9m18s
https://youtu.be/m4u2JWyIS7E?t=6m7s
I may have found the building on Google Earth.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/8+Wil ... 683cebce03
Street view of loading bay door in question:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.784032, ... khsWOA!2e0
I have a few questions, though. First, who was the customer? There is currently a trailer company and adhesives mixing company there. I suspect the former, if they were around in 1989-1990, but I could be way off. Second, when was this section of the line abandoned (the M&L was abandoned in stages)? Finally, was the car moved into the loading door I pictured (also visible in first video), or was the coil car switched to a separate building next to it? I want to say the coil car was moved in and out of that big door on the right side of the building...
https://youtu.be/_XodZw673Qc?t=9m18s
https://youtu.be/m4u2JWyIS7E?t=6m7s
I may have found the building on Google Earth.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/8+Wil ... 683cebce03
Street view of loading bay door in question:
https://www.google.com/maps/@42.784032, ... khsWOA!2e0
I have a few questions, though. First, who was the customer? There is currently a trailer company and adhesives mixing company there. I suspect the former, if they were around in 1989-1990, but I could be way off. Second, when was this section of the line abandoned (the M&L was abandoned in stages)? Finally, was the car moved into the loading door I pictured (also visible in first video), or was the coil car switched to a separate building next to it? I want to say the coil car was moved in and out of that big door on the right side of the building...