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Customers | Rahway Valley Line - Maplewood

Customers of the Rahway Valley Line

Maplewood
(a.k.a. Newark Heights or Hilton)

 

Name of Company

Nature of Business

Time
Period

Freight
Siding

Notes

Wm. Bauer & Co.

Retail coal (?)

c. 1929

H. Boker & Co., Inc.

Cutlery

c.1928-1944

Yes

Carl Coal Co.

Retail coal

c.1944

Yes

Rented the Newark Heights Station.

Cooper Fuel Co., Inc.

Retail coal

c.1944

Yes

a.k.a. Cooper Coal Co.

Donkerfast & Williams

 

c.1928

Yes

Essex Charcoal Co.

Charcoal

c.1944

Used siding of Carl Coal Co.

Federal Cement Block &
Material Co.

Cement

c.1928

Yes

Earlier Mercer Cement Block &
Bldg. Material Co.

E. G. Gordon Coal Co.

Retail coal

c.1944

R. W. Guempel

Retail coal (?)

c. 1929

Hope Foundry
Manufacturing Co.

c.1923-1928

a.k.a. Hope Foundry and Machine Co.,
Hope Electrical Products Co.

Kraeuter & Company

Tools

c.1919

Yes

Kroydon Co.

Golf equipment

c.1919-1944

Yes

A subsidiary of Kraueter & Co.

M. Kulper

Plaster

c. 1929

Maplewood Building
Specialties

Building materials:
stone, & slate

c.1965-1973

Yes

a.k.a. Maplewood Stone & Slate Co., Inc.

Menner Packing Co.

 

c. 1965

Yes

Earlier the location of The Newark
Heights Supply Co.

Mercer Cement Block &
Building Material Co.

c. 1923

Later Federal Cement Block & Material Co.

Miller Tompkins Paper Co.

Paper Products

c. 1960's

N. Drake

Grain, feed, & ice

c. 1919

Later the location of Woolley (?)

The Newark Heights
Supply Co
.

c. 1928

Yes

Later the location of Menner Packing.

Newark Way Coal Co.

Retail coal

c. 1944

Earlier the location of Donkerfast & Wms.

United Fuel Yards

Retail coal

c. 1944

Yes

W. A. Thornley Co., Inc.

Cement

c. 1928

Woolley Fuel Co.

Retail coal, fuel oil, ice

1929-1957

Yes

a.k.a. Woolley Coal Company
 
 

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