Yeah, I got a chuckle out of that. Nice picture too.
Wait a minute... New York has Wine Country? I thought only cirtain climates can grow grapes? Like Northern California, France, etc.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth." -- Will Rogers.
Dave Nelson
google Hammondsport and this photo is on the first page.
Hammondsport is home to the Glenn Curtis Museum. He was an authentic aviation pioneer as well as motorcycle and boat racer. Edison got him involved in airplanes motors. Put the Finger Lakes on your bucket list, a huge number of wineries and eat at one of the best restaurants in New England, Suzannes.www.suzannefrc.com No affiliation at all, but one of my best vacations ever.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I am planning a winery on the new branchline I am adding to my railroad. While researching what kind of commodities would be received and shipped I remembered one of the first model railroading books I bought back in the late 1970s was Kalmbach's Railroads You Can Model and that one of those railroads was a shortline in New York's wine country. I didn't remember the name of the railroad but it turned out it was the Bath and Hammondsport, a nine mile short line that served wineries between its namesake cities. It turned out it contained just the kind of information I needed not only regarding the commodities but the types of cars to use as well.
What gave me a chuckle was that during prohibition people of course didn't stop drinking. The wineries stayed in business by selling grape juice knowing full well that most of their customers would use it to make wine. They would include a "warning" with their product that began "DO NOT..." and then followed with detailed instructions on how to convert the grape juice into wine. The closing line informed the customers that if they did that, the grape juice would turn into wine and that would be illegal.