by michaelk
CNJ4104 wrote:redbaron3067Dunlop and Lisk is (was?) the brick/stone/piping supply that was right across the tracks from Matawan Lumber on Rt 79.
Don't forget Matawan Lumber on Rt79. I remember seeing cars parked right on the Freehold main to be unloaded. Where was Dunlop and Lisk?
CNJ4104
They used to have something of a freight shed- i guess you'd call it- a wooden building with an elevated platform up against the tracks. I'd imagine for unloaded boxcars but i never saw a box car there that i can recall. It was basically in their yard but was all the way at the back corner and the office was up front- so all the local kids used to hang out there.
imperial oil is(was) a superfund site now a days.
I also remember one time a train taking a huge (well it was huge to a little kid) transformer(s) on one of those flat cars that sags in the middle to get extra clearance- to the JCPL substation down off Texas/Wilson ave's. It's a bit blurry- I think it was way before Matawan was electrified but MAYBE MAYBE somehow related- they put in a transmission line along the ROW from that Substation to the "new" substation just past the NJCL Matawan Station (sorry Aberdeen- Matawan. cry babies- laughing) by Llyod Road and the Parkway- basically in the armpit of the Natco and NJCL junction. I can't recall entirely but i think Matawan get fed out of South Amboy but then they built that "new" substation for Matawan-> Redbank?
(Boy did the "grownups" have a cow and go all NIMBY when JCPL put that power line in along the right of way.)
Last edited by michaelk on Sun Jun 12, 2011 2:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.