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Customers of the Rahway Valley Railroad

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Name of Company

Nature of Business

Time
Period

Freight
Siding

Exact Location & Notes

Albert Paper & Stock Co.

 

c. 1942

Yes

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

American Core
Concrete Pipe Co.

Concrete pipe

c. 1944-9

Yes

Stanley Terrace, now the location
of Keller Crescent

Rahway Valley Line

Earlier Core Joint Concrete
Pipe Co., also known as American
Concrete Pipe Corp.

John R. Anderson & Co.

Electrotypers wax mfrs.

 

Yes

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

A. P. W. Products Co., Inc.

Paper products

c. 1957

Yes

2345 Vauxhall Road

Rahway Valley Line

Later Hazel Bishop.
Now the site of Stonco.

Atlas Coal Co.

Retail coal

c. 1944

 

Baxter Warehouse Co.

Alcoholic Beverages

c. 1960's

Yes

625 Rahway Avenue

RVRR.

Binder Machinery Co.

Machinery

c. 1940's

Yes

West Chestnut Street,
n
ow the location of Costco

Bosman & Casson
Industrial Plywood Co.

Mill work

c. 1950's

Yes

Brighton Street

Rahway Valley Line

Carpenter Technology Corp.
Tube Division

Steel tubing

c. 1970

Yes

Springfield Road

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

a.k.a. Carpenter Steel Co.

V. Colangelo

c. 1944

TT 
(?)

Core Joint Concrete Pipe Co.

Concrete pipe

c. 1923

Yes

Stanley Terrace, now the location
of Keller Crescent

Rahway Valley Line

Later known as
American Concrete Pipe Corp.

W. Dana Bigelow Inc.

General
Contractors

c. 1929

TT 
(?)

Shipped in anoccasional
load of
asphalt.

Danley Machine Specialties

Steel Fabrication

c. 1960's

E. M. Davis

Chemcials

c. 1923

Yes

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Located at the wye at Branch Jct.
a.k.a. Davis Chemical Products Co., Inc.

Elastic Stop Nut Corp. of America
(ESNA)

Stop nuts

c. 1944

Yes

2330 Vauxhall Road

Rahway Valley Line

Essex Chair Co.

Furniture

c. 1960's

Yes

Iorio Street

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Falk Coal Co.

Retail coal

 

Yes

Vauxhall Road

Rahway Valley Line

Was across the street from
what is now Lincoln Tech.

Chas. Ferns

Straw

c. 1929

Foley Machinery Co.

Construction
equipment

c. 1960's

Yes

2365 Route 22 West

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Earlier Smith Tractor.
Now Mack Boring.

Fowler Machinery Co., Inc.

Laundry machinery

c. 1970's

Yes

565 Rahway Avenue

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Now Fowler Equipment Co., Inc. and
Sunburst Gymnastics

Fred Stone Lumber Co.

Lumber, building
material, & fencing

c. 1919

Yes

Rahway Valley Line

Property later purchased by
Adolph Jaeger

Geiger Engineering Mfg. Co.

Mfrs. of pre-fab bldgs.

 

Yes

Burnet Avenue

Rahway Valley Line

Gelb Machinery

Secondhand
machinery,
scrap metals

c. 1970's

Yes

Also known as R. Gelb & Sons, Inc.

Gordon Bass Co.

Alcoholic Beverages

c. 1960's

Yes

1089 Hudson Street
(on Brighton Street)

Rahway Valley Line

Now L&A Transport

Griffith Laboratories

Food preservatives

c. 1970's

Yes

855 Rahway Avenue

Rahway Valley Line

Nicknamed the "Spice Factory"
Now Kalustyan

Hazel Bishop Inc.

Cosmetics

c. 1960's

Yes

2345 Vauxhall Road

Rahway Valley Line

Earlier A.P.W. Products.
Now the site of Stonco.

Heller Coal & Supply Co .

Retail coal

c. 1919 -
c. 1929

Yes

Stanley Terrace

Rahway Valley Line

Later Kingston Coal Co.

Hind Steel & Wire Works, Inc.

Steel products,
patent steel hooping

c. 1919

Yes

Stanley Terrace

Rahway Valley Line

Later merged with Union Steel Corp.

Holzapfel American
Compositions Co.

Paint

c. 1919

TT

Morris Avenue

Rahway Valley Line

Later became International Paint

Ideal Dairy Farms

Bottles, hay, straw

c. 1944

TT

Morris Avenue

Rahway Valley Line

Now Ideal Professional Park

Industrial Plywood Corp.

Plywood

c. 1960's

Yes

Precursor to Ply Gem?

International Paint Co.

Paint

c. 1944

TT

Morris Avenue

Rahway Valley Line

Now Akzo-Nobel

Jaeger Lumber & Supply Co.

Retail coal & lumber,
building supplies,
masons materials

1937-1991

Yes

Morris Avenue

Rahway Valley Line

Last Rahway Valley Line customer.
Earlier known as Jaeger Coal & Supply

Jersey Tab Card Corp.

Computer
processor
cards

c.1960's - 1970's

Yes

649 Rahway Avenue

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Now Merrill Corp.

J. L. Hammett Co.

School supplies

c. 1970's

Yes

Off of Vauxhall Road

Rahway Valley Line

Now FedEx Shipping Center

Kelley & Tennant Inc.

Chemical products

c. 1923

Yes

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Located at the wye at Branch Jct.

Kingston Coal Co.

Retail coal

 

Yes

Stanley Terrace

Rahway Valley Line

 When line was severed by I-78,
Kingston moved in with Falk Coal
on Vauxhall Road.

Wm. B. Levenson

Flour

c. 1960's

Yes

581 Rahway Avenue

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Now Corbert Medical Transportation

Manning & Lewis Co.

Steel Products

c. 1960's

?

675 Rahway Avenue

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Mapes & Sproul Steel Co.

Steel plates, etc

c. 1944

Yes

1831 Burnet Avenue

Rahway Valley Line

Now DreamTeam

The Mart

Furniture Warehouse

c. 1970's

Yes

655 Rahway Avenue

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Still in operation

Newark Iron & Metal Co.

Scrap Iron

c. 1960's

Ply-Gem

Building materials

c. 1970 - 1991

Yes

14 Gelb Ave.

Rahway Valley Line

Now Aramark

Harry Rich, Inc.

Tile

c. 1960's

Yes

565 Rahway Avenue

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Later Fowler Machinery.
Now Fowler Equipment Co., Inc. and
Sunburst Gymnastics

Rosen Redwood Co.

Lumber

c. 1960's

 

A. Schneider & Co.

Metal sheeting

c. 1942

Yes

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Located at the wye at Branch Jct.

Smith Tractor & Equipment Co.

Heavy equipment

c. 1942

Yes

2365 Route 22 West

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Later Foley Machinery
Now Mack Boring.

Titanine Corp.

Lacquers

c. 1944

TT

2270 Morris Avenue

Rahway Valley Line

Now Akzo Nobel

Union Concrete Products Co.

Concrete products

c. 1944

Western Electric

Wire & Telephone
Equipment

c. 1950 - c. 1970

Yes

650 Liberty Avenue

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Now Bed, Bath, and Beyond

West Virginia Co.

Cement

c. 1929

Yes

Of some relation to Fred Stone Co.

Wright Chemical Co.

Chemical products

c. 1929

Yes

Chester Road (now Route 22)

Rahway Valley Railroad Co.

Located within the wye at
Branch Junction, earlier known as
Wright's Switch.

Notes: RVRR - located along the Rahway Valley Railroad Co. (Mainline), RVL - located along the Rahway Valley Line  (Maplewood Branch)

This view shows the switch and the siding into Jaeger Lumber. Note the bulkhead flatcar sitting on the spur. The tracks straight ahead lead to the bridge over Morris Avenue. By the time of this photo the spur to the Unionbury Freight Depot and teamtrack had been removed. The remnants of the switch can been seen just beyond Jaeger's switch. Photo taken by Jeff Jargosch.

 

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