I grew up in Lititz and remember this building, but I don’t remember it being used by the railroad. It is gone now, and I don’t know when it was torn down, but after I left home for the navy in 1976. It was used to push hopper cars up a steep slope of track into the building and the car’s contents were dumped below, where it was transferred to trucks for delivery. The lower area was divided into areas for different products. It was used for coal and maybe crushed stone, gravel, and sand. My dad said when he was a boy, he used to watch the cars being pushed by the steam engine making several runs at it starting next to or beyond the chocolate factory, across the street and up the sloping track until it finally made it, the drive wheels slipping and sparking, and being a noisy operation.

[Photo in Irving's comment below shows the bottom half of the building survives. - Dave]

Alas, the "long shed elevated a full story", inquired about by louJudson, is no longer elevated, as evidenced by the photo posted by Irving2Smokes. An illustration of shedshrinkflation.

Edited to Add: GoogleMaps aerial photo, centered on the shed. The street view of Irving2Smokes photo looks west from N. Cedar St, between Front St and North Ln.

is, I think, a coal unloading track. There is a bumping post visible on the upper level, indicating a railroad track inside. Railroad hopper cars would be pushed up a ramp (not visible) and unloaded by opening the doors on the bottom of the cars. The coal would fall into bins underneath, to be loaded into wagons or trucks for delivery to homes and businesses. The shed is long to accommodate lots of coal, in different sizes for different uses.

Edit: Correcting what I said above, the ramp is just visible between the road crossing and the shed.

That's a coal trestle for unloading railcars. When coal was the primary heating fuel, they were found in rail-served cities and towns. Here the stone walls and piers have survived in the new building.

It's a coal trestle, with room for coal trucks to drive underneath to be filled.

Lititz is my Dad's hometown, and we visited his parents there Sunday afternoons about 50 years ago. The factory in the distance is the Wilbur Suchard factory, becoming Wilbur Chocolate in 1958. For a number of decades, most of the town had the aroma of roasting cocoa beans, gone now, and sadly missed by many. As Irving2Smokes suspected, no more trains run through town, the old right of way now a Rail To Trail from Lititz to nearby Ephrata.

Long shed elevated a full story. What was it used for???

I enjoy trying to find the location of the posted photos. It looks like today there are no thru trains and only one track.

I looked up Shorpy's Lititz posts and confirmed Lititz was also the home of the Lititz Springs Pretzel Company, owned by Lewis C. Haines. I wonder if the idea of joining forces with Wilbur to make chocolate covered pretzels ever came up? It would have been a natural marriage, to me.

The chocolate factory must be Wilbur Chocolate, maker of Wilbur Buds, a predecessor of that other chocolate maker's Kisses. Wilbur produced candy at the factory until 2016, when owner Cargill shuttered it. The building is now a mixed use development with hotel, condos, and shops. Wilbur has another, more modern factory producing bulk chocolate in Lititz.