Barry Bros.

In the 50s, the PRSL was loaded with coal and lumber traffic. Each town seemed to have 1 or 2 local coal (and lumber) dealers since most of the existing houses had those big octopus-like coal heaters in their dirt-floored, low-ceiling basements. I can remember my father and uncles going down and feeding their furnaces with shovel fulls of coal each winter day. The delivery trucks would pull up to your driveway and aim their chutes through an open basement window to keep the basement coal bin full.

I distinctly remember the coal trestle at Barry Bros. in Westville with a 2 hopper B&O hopper car perched high on top of it, to gravity feed the yard below. So the past few weeks have been spent filling the open hole set apart for the Barry Brothers fuel dealership. (They later added an oil tank for fuel oil but, like most of the other small dealers along the line, soon ceased to exist.)

Now all I need to find is a model of the movable coal shute used to move the coal around the yard and fill the delivery trucks. Bueller? Anyone?