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Customers | Springfield

Customers of the Rahway Valley Railroad

Springfield



Name of Company

Nature of Business

Time
Period

Freight
Siding

Notes

Andrew Wilson Inc.

Insecticides

c.1944

Yes

Offices located in Baltusrol Station

Carter-Bell Manufacturing Co.

Rubber substitutes

Yes

Chemical & Dye Corp.

Chemical products

c. 1929

Took in shipments of coal

Chemical Company of America

Chemical products

1915 - c.1924

Yes

Commonwealth Stone
Quarry Co.

Crushed stone

c. 1929

Yes

Later Houdaille Stone Quarry

E.J. Flaherty
Construction Co.

Construction

c. 1929

Took in shipments of sewer pipe & machinery

Fuel Sales Corp.

Retail coal

c. 1944

Houdaille Stone Quarry

Crushed stone

 

Yes

Earlier Commonwealth Stone Quarry

Interstate Quarry

Crushed stone

c. 1919

Yes

George Miller

Drain tile, iron pipe

c. 1929

Progressive Clay Co.

Sewer pipe

c. 1929

Schaible Oil Co.

Fuel oil

Sickley Lumber &
Coal Yard

Coal & building material

c. 1919

Yes

"Springfield Coal Pockets"

Co-op coal dock?

Union County Coal &
Lumber Co
.

Retail coal & lumber,
building materials

c. 1929 -
c. 1951

William Eisenberg & Sons

Cement

c. 1929

 

Schaible Oil Co., now the site of the Springfield Fire Department.
Photos taken by Jeff Jargosch.

Collection of Scott Schnipper


 

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