Preston Pierce
CANANDAIGUA The Peanut Line is no more.
It has been gone since 1972 and reminders are increasingly hard to find. The only obvious reminder of that old rail line in the town of Canandaigua is the Peanut Line Trail donated by Jim Judkins in 2008. That short trail connects County Road 30 and the Cooley Road. It’s a short trail, as rail trails go, about one mile round-trip, but give it a try in any season. As you walk along, try to imagine yourself riding the last passenger train to pass that way in 1933. Or a conductor on the last freight train trundling over the deteriorating tracks to Holcomb in 1972.