Lucaston Paint Works Spur?

[JJMDiMunno]

Hey guys,
Anyone here have any images of trains on the Lucaston Paint Works spur around Gibbsboro that they'd care to share with myself and the group? I'm looking for a few particularly for personal reference...

Thanks in advance guys.

Mike DiMunno

[mitch kennedy]

I have a great Bob Long aerial shot from the mid 60's that I could scan and post, assuming no one copies it for illicit purposes. The plant shut down in the fall of 1978, but rail shipments were sporadic prior to that-probably only the occasional tank car of solvents, etc. There was an old NATX 3-compartment tank car used as a storage tank, on its own wheels, just opposite the old Gibbsboro Tavern (where I spent many anight I had difficulty remembering!) that didn't come out til the "Paint Works" complex went in around 82 or 83. Once in a while in the late 60's we'd see CA 289 or 298 switching there around 5 or 5:30--not a day they went back to Camden under their own power no doubt! How come these posts always make me feel old??

[JJMDiMunno]

Thanks for sharing that...if you'd like to post that photo (which I'd love to see personally), you may want to place a copyrigth notice of some kind embedded in the image to hamper copying.

Of course, all credit should go to Bob on that...

Mike DiMunno

[south jersey trains]

Hi Mike ,I have a photo of several box cars on a siding dated 1915 of Lucas Paint works.Plus several early pictures of the Kirkwood station.I dont have a way to post them but I could meet you at Stratford dinner and lend them to you to make a copy if you like. I use to live in Kirkwood.

[jarmat1]

I was wondering if any of those pics materialized. I drive by the site on United States Ave every day to & from work. I'd love to see them.

Thanks,
Bill L

[JJMDiMunno]

I was wondering if any of those pics materialized. I drive by the site on United States Ave every day to & from work. I'd love to see them.

Thanks,
Bill L

Negative - anyone have anything to contribute since this thread was originally started?

Mike DiMunno

[railworker1987]

The Freight Depot for Lucaston is still standing.

[MedicSutton]

Thats funny.. I always wondered about that.. I worked for an ambulance company for two years in that development for two years before it moved to a bigger facility in West Berlin.. A lot of those tracks are still intact..

[JJMDiMunno]

That's interesting...no, I never knew the freight station still existed. Where specifically is it? If you have a photograph and /or aerial map showing it's location, that would be most helpful...

Mike DiMunno