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Summary

Transfer Shed

This was a long shed (in the distance, on the left of the picture). LCLs (less than carload lots) were moved from one box car to another according to where the items came from and were going. Two-wheel hand carts were used; there was also a small gasoline crane for heavier items.

There were five tracks on each side of the shed; the box cars were put so that one could go through the doors of one to get into another.

"They had a slew of people working there!" The shed was long enough for perhaps fort cars on each track. The workers called the cars by the destination: "they knew what they were doing!"

A two-story building in the center of the transfer shed was the office. New York Hill is in the background up on the left. On the right is the shop for disabled cars.

(Courtesy of Kim Myers; featured in an article in the November 11, 1982 edition of the Brunswick Citizen called "Brunswick and the Age of Steam" by James F. MacMurray)