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Customers of the Rahway Valley Railroad Union

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, now 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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