where are the two plants in LA and Cincinnati located exactly.
Nobody seems to be answering this yet.
I don’t believe there is a Juice Train that goes to LA. The service I know about goes to Jersey City (used to be Kearny) and to Cincinnati.
Jersey City is served off the modern incarnation of the National Docks Secondary.
In Cincinnati, I believe the facility is Tropicana Cinti, 10121 Princeton Glendale Rd, 45246. If you put this address into Google Maps or TopoMapper, and then pan view a little to the right and down, you can see a number of Tropicana cold-boxes spotted opposite the loading doors.
Is that enough information for you?
yes thank you, and some of the cars are broken up in jacksonville and go to LA.
I believe Tropicana’s facility in California is at City of Industry. The shipments to Ohio & California are on the order of 10 to 15 per trip. The shipments to New Jersey are 40 to 60 cars per trip, with the train running 5 days a week - and sometimes a extra day.
Try 240 N. Orange Avenue, City of Industry 91744-3433 as the LA area address.
This is what I have observed. CSX places ~ 20 - 25 Tropicana cars on the rear of a Jacksonville - Fairburn, Ga intermodal. The cars are then placed onto a run thru CSX - UP Fairburn - New Orleans - ??? Intermodal. The reverse is done returning the emptys. If there is a schedule problem the cars are switched out at LaGrange, Ga. saving about 3 hrs.
Does Coca-Cola have a juice train for Minute Maid like Pepsi’s Tropicana Train?
I’d have to say no…they certainly don’t have a fleet of mechanical refrigerator cars to match the TPIX fleet.
Carrying OJ to So Cal. Who’d a thunk it!
I’ve seen the Tropicana cars on the Sunset Route in blocks of no more than eight at a time, either at the front or rear of intermodals. That tells me that some of the cars you are seeing are switched out at Fairburn for another destination, probably Cincinnati. The westbound intermodals are usually dominated by CSX stacks and occasionally have CSX run-through power.
John Timm
If you’re interested here is a video of the juice train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTdJwrUaoXI
That’s kind of like something I saw recently on a manifest’s train list. A few carloads of dairy products going to Wisconsin.
Jeff
Jeff, I remember a few years ago commenting on reefer loads of cheese that we’d get in the yard, and classifying them to Butler for points in Wisconsin. At the time I said that I thought they were destined for some haberdasher…
Almost all California oranges are sold as fresh fruit. Only the rejects are processed. Most of Florida’s oranges are processed.
In my northeast NJ supermarket California oranges are all navels. Florida oranges are not. Florida oranges are juicer but have seeds. I prefer Florida oranges for the juice and better taste but navels sell very well here.
I"m thirsty.