Warwick, NY - Lumber Yard

Who drills the lumber yard in Warwick, NY ? NS or NYS&W ? If NYS&W do the SU or WS series trains serve this customer ? How many customers are along the line between here and the propane client in Sparta ?

The former Conklin facility is serviced by NS out of Campbell Hall. The drill also goes farther south to Jones Chemicals, which is in the former L&HR engine house. Jones has its own switcher. South of Jones, there are no other customers, although there is what can be called a team track just north of Sparta. A lumber company in NJ used to receive cars there after reactivation of the line around 1985. Next to Conklin lumber is a Georgia Pacific plant that has an indoor siding. This is now disconnected. A little more to the north is an old Singer Sewing Machine building which had a siding. This was removed about 10 years ago.

The lumber yard is one w/activate rail shipments across the street from the Warwick station. So who drills this one ?

Yes, that's the one. NS drills. In L&HR days, there was an elevated coal siding in the building that parallels the mainline. There also used to be a cement platform for unlaoding boxcars, with it's own track, near the parking lot of the lumber company, by the entrance. Peck's Wine store across the tracks was once an L&HR building with it's own siding. Warwick Feed and Grain, which is just south, has the remnants of another elevated siding used to unload hopper cars.

Dont forget that the parking lots on both sides of south street was once the L&HR's yard before the more modern facility was built east of town around 1907. I believe that Pecks Wine was once the L&HR freight house.

David Hutchinson wrote:Yes, that's the one. NS drills. In L&HR days, there was an elevated coal siding in the building that parallels the mainline. There also used to be a cement platform for unlaoding boxcars, with it's own track, near the parking lot of the lumber company, by the entrance. Peck's Wine store across the tracks was once an L&HR building with it's own siding. Warwick Feed and Grain, which is just south, has the remnants of another elevated siding used to unload hopper cars.

Why doesn't NYS&W drill the lumber yard ?

NYSW "trackage" starts about a mile south, at Pelton Road. NS owns where the lumber yard is, although NYSW has trackage rights.

Are the lumber company and the chemical company, both in Warwick, the only remaining customers on the Hudson Secondary?

There is an old team track at Greycourt, that was actually the interchange track with the Erie-Lackawanna. Then, another lumber company in Chester that still receives cars. There were two sidings that crossed one another on a diamond that served an industry in Chester. The switch was removed, but the diamond is still there. Another two sidings are in Chester serving a steel facility and another for a refrigerated warehouse. Neither of these two see use at all.