A part of the whole...this view is of less than half of Railex’s 200,000 square foot transloading center at Wallula. Overall the structure is five football fields long, 140-feet wide, with controlled storage kept at temperatures as low as 33-degrees. Fresh produce stored here is loaded into specially-designed refrigerated rail cars that make up the produce train destined for direct travel to a similar facility in New York for distribution to East Coast markets.

Potatoes, apples, onions and more are part of the product mix that’s carefully loaded into each of the 55 rail cars that make up the Railex train. Each week, as many as eight-million pounds of fresh vegetables and fruits from the Northwest will be transported to Railex’s New York terminal in Schenectady’s Rotterdam Industrial Park.                       Photos by Donna Lasater