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Brooklyn Queens Industries |
Albert Pipe / TubeCo manufactured large pipes some 3 and 4 feet in
diameter. Boxcars for wood, steel, hardware etc. Gondolas in and out with
welded piping sections shipped on wooden forms.ArchBilt Container - cardboard box manufacturer, large facility received
boxcars loaded with large really large rolls of various types of paper,
Tracks went along side of building with a dead end spur and a siding into a
building where these rolls where unloaded by a forklift that had a long
pole used to fit into the roll.Atlas Terminals (Hemidinger Estates) Metropolitan Avenue 80th St to 88th St
industrial location, many sidings. Ended at Glendale Steel Warehouse
structural steel.
Bohack Grocery- huge multi building complex groceries, produce and meat.
Boxcars, refers.
Brooklyn Steel Warehouse boxcars, flat cars, gondolas. Steel beams and
structural steel.
Grace Chemical manufactered rolled plastic products. Covered hoppers and
boxcars. Tank cars.Hansel and Gretel 79th St off Metropolitan Meat processing company deli
coldcuts. Never saw a train here but as I recall at its siding there was a
sign that read something like "No Engines Past This Point"
Miron Lumber- flat cars, boxcars.Republic Steel boxcars, flat cars, gondolas. Steel beams and structural steel.
Rheingold And Schlitz Breweries Evergreen Avenues
Web Offset Flushing Ave and Wyckoff Ave. printing company. Printed
magazines, church bullitins, porno you name it. Large facility, I think it was one building. Large presses. Received large rolls of paper.Welbuilt- 54th St and Flushing appliance manufacturer large multi
building facility boxcars.7 Santini Brothers in the 70's they were building huge shipping crates for
airplane parts for shipment overseas. Can't remember trains for sure, but
I feel that they were shipped by fatcars or flatbed trucks.
Thanks to Dave Brinkmoeller