Appliance Park in Louisville KY?

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Does anyone know anything about a place called Appliance Park in Louisville, KY?

Just wondering since the new Exactrail Cotton Belt PC&F 6033 50’ hi-cube boxcar has "Appliance Park Louisville, KY via service route scribbled on it.

Does this Appliance Park still exist and get rail freight in 2011?

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I found this information on Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appliance_Park

I’m not sure if there is still rail traffic there anymore. In the early 80s, GE began to focus on it core industries and began to get rid of some of their appliance manufacturing.

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http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qbvfyy7vw3pt&lvl=16&dir=0&sty=b&where1=Louisville%2C%20KY&q=Louisville%2C%20KY&FORM=LMLTCC

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After I retired from the military I went to work for Whirlpool Corporation’s Evansville Division that built top-mount refrigerators. We knew and seen the appliance park. It is still there, only they use a small amount of it most of the building are empty as they sold off or relocated to Mexico most of the products they built there. Sadly the fate of the Whirlpool Evansville division fell and was moved to Mexico as the Corporate CEO inform us that it cost $34.00 in labor per refrigerator in Evansville and it would cost $3.34 per unit in Mexico, and with 1.5 million units a year built, there was no way we could compete again the labor cost down there. so now I am completely retired. But to your question, yes it exist and is still there, only a shell of itself now.

Ray

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You need to confirm this but I believe it was originally switched by NYC. The Sears east coast distribution center in Philadelphia received up to twenty cars per day from Appliance Park and always in NYC cars.