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Interview with Lew Puddicombe of Puddicombe Farms - Lew Discusses the Fruit Train and Shipping Fruit

So, we used to load our grapes at Winona, there used to be a siding down there, and there were many, there were sidings at Grimsby, there was a siding at Beamsville, Jordan, all the way down, and they would load grapes and all kinds of fruit. At one time, in those years, we had what they called the fruit train. It ran during the summer months. It would start in at Niagara, work its way up, stop at all the stations on the way up and they would take fruit and that fruit would be put on what they call 'express cars'. I think some of it went to Toronto, some went to various stations along the way, Montreal, some went to the Eastern provinces. But that is all out now, no more of that.