The inspiration for this on-line industry was the Godfather
movie series. Genco was formed by Vito Corleone in the 1920s. It was a front
for the family's criminal activities and was named after his childhood friend
and consigliere, Genco Abbandando. It eventually grew to become the largest
olive-oil importer in the nation.
The brick Genco building on my Citrus Belt Railway is the New York company’s Southern
California warehouse and distribution center. Genco is a good
railroad customer, consistently receiving boxcar loads of canned and bottled
olive oil... and sacks of cement. They occasionally ship out loads of oil drums
filled with what probably is just
trash.
The building logo was copied from the Internet, printed on
very thin paper and glued to the building.
Maybe I'll have to do something similar for Don Tommasino, since he got injured and never really healed helping Vito get the guy that had his family murdered. Hey, Genco was the cover that got them in the door on that caper too; it just keeps on giving. Cute. JohnH. Arizona Southern RR.
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