New York Division Branch Lines

M.P.

 STATIONS (from ETT #10)
YARDS and Industries (from Traffic Track Diagrams)

N or S of track

 Carloads Shipped/Received
1969 1970 1971 1972

JOHNSTON INDUSTRIAL YARD TRACK
0.0 CP05 R-New York, PC
0.0 NATIONAL JCT R-New York, PC
0.0/0.8 PRR JCT
0.4/0.8 NEW JERSEY JCT.
1.1/1.5 JOHNSTON
1.9/2.3 PHILLIPS STREET

NATIONAL DOCKS BRANCH (The Traffic Track Diagrams give no indication where the industries are located relative to the stations in the Employee Timetables)
1.9/2.3 PHILLIPS STREET
3.7/4.1 CONSTABLE JCT
Owens-Illinois Co N     80 59
  Baldwin Oil & Commodities S 107 99 78 84
  Clorox S 114 114 78 447
  Progresso Foods/S&W Fine Foods S 161 183 344 309
  Shaw Walker (New 1971) S     42 TOFC
  HOSPABLE Products (New 1972) S       17
  BAYONNE STATION
Under MFA, Neward		 N     5395 5333
  Humble Oil S 1529 1412 1538 2054
  General Service Administration S 57 133 88 61
  Military Ocean Terminal S 830 485 753 593
  Eldorado Terminal S 475 340 373 408
  Hudson Iron & Metals S 243 218 192 184
  Hunt Wesson S 1422 1393 1617 1235
  International Paper S 503 488 570 429
  Gordon Terminal S 378 389 354 435
  Export Packing & Crating S 444 307 315 190
  ICI – America S 121 77 123 112
  Super Sagless Spring S 166 75 12 0
  Maremont S 15 24 9 1
  EJ Korvette S 3 787 TOFC TOFC
  Kraft Corrugated (New 1971) S     108 154
  Diversified (New 1971) S     46 190
  Held Warehouse (This and all below not listed prior to the 1973 TTD, may all be new 1971) S     11 35
  Rex International S     10 5
  Compass One S     22 73
  Malden Warehouse S     39 52
  Diamond Chemical S     7 12
  Hess Oil S     0 1
  Aim Warehouse (Aimot) S     0 30
  Stephen Gould Paper S     2 0
  Great Gee S     12 5

BAYSHORE CONNECTING RAILROAD – 1.1 Mile (appears on Traffic Track Diagrams but not on Employee Timetable. No mileages given.
Vulcan Materials Chemicals Div   909 794 694 758
  Vulcan Materials Detinning Div (moved 3/73)   237 333 313 191
  A Gross   159 228 347 322
  Minn. Mining & Mfg. (3M Co.)   95 73 46 21
  Ashland Chemical   208 199 130 105
  Central Drum (in business, no rail traffic 1972)   23 18 110 0
  Celanese   619 463 507 451

IRVINGTON BRANCH – Hillside to Irvington 3 Miles (appears on Traffic Track Diagrams but not on Employee Timetable. No mileages given.
Some industries on the Irvington Branch are listed on the 1971 & 1972 TTDs, but not on the 1973 TTD, and vice-versa. Since 1971 carloadings are given in both cases, these do not seem to be new or defunct businesses – it appears to be a clerical error.
Pabst Brewing – Irvington Yard   895 952 972 829
  American Can Hillside   1923 2047 1162 909
  Bristol Myers – Hillside   385 235 180 129
  Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical – Hillside   473 387 278 208
  Jiffy Mfg – Hillside       98 122
  Schacht Steel – Hillside       99 126
  Westinghouse – Hillside       75 35
  Hatfield Wire – Hillside       1 2
  Grossman Paper Co – Irvington   257 243 287 262
  Magee Fine – Irvington   132 161 181 146
  Manufacturers Reserve – Irvington       151 160
  Interstate Lumber – Irvington       203 125
  Delta Furniture – Irvington   54 81 110  
  Angelo Foods – Irvington   44 48 30  
  T Dorman – Irvington   43 50 47  
  Bierman Everett – Irvington       6 6
  I Epstein – Irvington       13 11
  Castle Products – Irvington       15 24
  Woodward Products – Irvington (new 8/72)         5
  NJ Charcoal – Irvington   275 273 265 252

GREENVILLE BRANCH – 2.5 Miles (appears on Traffic Track Diagrams but not on Employee Timetable. No mileages given.
Inland Steel Container N 338 233 143 223
  Republic Container Corp N 354 343 403 362
  Joseph T. Ryerson N 141 107 44 31
  Mueller foods (deleted 1972) N 41 24 0  
  Danforth Warehouse N 219 153 153 17
  Degen Oil N 90 55 63 80
  Posnak & Turkish N 37 52 15 7
  Mallinkrodt Chemical N 17 29 23 20
  International Bakerage Inc N 197 116 184 154
  Key Warehouse (deleted 1972) N 33 39 0  
  Fedway N 33 30 7 0
  Brooklyn Egg Case N 0 22 23 1
  Merit Warehouse (added 1973) N     3 2

NEWARK BRANCH
0.0 HUNTER, PC          
0.6 NEWARK          

PERTH AMBOY SECONDARY TRACK
0.0 SOUTH PLAINFIELD          
2.8 VALLEY          
3.4 METUCHEN          
  Stephen Black (not in TTDs prior to 1973)       68 54
  Weston (not in TTDs prior to 1973)       0 17
  Webcraft (not in TTDs prior to 1973)       91 88
  Oakite Products   944 626 437 461
  Economy Forms (not in TTDs prior to 1973)       15 13
  Rheem Mfg   92 0 0 0
  Freedman Warehouse (new 1970)     146 537 335
  Premium Plastics   187 211 202 204
  CERAMICS, NJ
(On TTDs only, not clear where located)		          
  Northern Pottery (closed 1971)   241 267 52  
  Gay-Lar (new 1972)         5
  Bienfang Paper   47 60 67 42
  Aluminum Co of America (closed 1971)   108 58 4  
  Interboro Trucking   91 259 201 157
7.3 RARITAN JCT
GREENSAND BRANCH		          
9.6 PERTH AMBOY (A)          
  American Smelting & Refining   3534 3561 2737 3010
  Abarry Iron & Steel (not in TTDs prior to 1973)       97 17
  Blackstone Lumber (not in TTDs prior to 1973)       14 9
  EI DuPont (closed 1971)   248 162 15  
  General Cable   984 1179 734 611
  International Smelting & Refining   1385 1198 979 934
  Fords Porcelain (not in TTDs prior to 1973)       6 3
  Union Carbide   897 1139 834 1238
  Ocean Industries (not in TTDs prior to 1973)       0 171
  National Lead   342 469 418 349
  Flagstaff Foods   85 106 95 82
  Hurley Lumber   95 145 120 116
  News Tribune   66 69 35 40
  Outerbridge Terminal (not in TTDs prior 1973)       46 87
  Royal Mfg (not in TTDs prior to 1973)       14 14

GREENSAND BRANCH – 5.6 Miles (appears on Traffic Track Diagrams but not on Employee Timetable. No mileages given.
Wheeling Warehouse – Keasby       692 28
  Carborundum – Keasby       169 154
  Union Carbide Linde Div – Keasby       242 184
  Ashland Chemical Co – Heyden       26 42
  Hatco Chemical Co – Heyden       656 536
  Tenneco – Heyden – Newport Chemical       617 551
  Cabot Carbon Corp – Nixon       209 150
  LaPlace Chemical – Nixon       6 0
  GSA – Nixon       452 372
  JM Huber – Nixon       30 9
  Atlantic Marketing – Nixon       176 76
  Baxter Laboratories – Nixon       32 42
  Certainteed – Nixon       391 275
  Utility Sebolt – Greensand       228 136
  Public Service – Greensand       52 48
  Benzol Products (Stauffer) – Greensand       123 106

FLEMINGTON BRANCH – 2 Miles (appears on Traffic Track Diagrams but not on Employee Timetable. No mileages given.
Agway – Flemington S 168 140 124 96
  Draw Tite – Flemington S 22 27 32 35

CLINTON BRANCH
1.8 CLINTON          
  Agway   82 65 64 73
  Cyrus Fox   2 0 3 1
0.0 LANSDOWN
2.1 KINGS (new after 10/59, abandoned 6/69)
3.9 PITTSTOWN (abandoned 6/69)

MUSCONETCONG BRANCH – 3 Miles (appears on Traffic Track Diagrams but not on Employee Timetable. No mileages given.
Riegel Paper Corporation   910 894 732 781

EASTON AND NORTHERN BRANCH  click here for customer details
0.0 EASTON          
  Victor Balata       20 28
  RAIMO of Easton (formerly Wm Cohen & Co   21 17 13 55
  Treadwell Engineering
Div. of Bethlehem Corp
(manufactured hot metal cars for steel mills)		   146 32 2 12
  Taylor Wharton       4 107
Dixie Cup Co.
Div. American Can		   1249 1369 1424 1514
  Schaible’s Bakery   195 193 186 173
  Leone Bros       37 36
  Mack Printing Co.   255 234 237 225
  Easton Express Co.   68 61 49 61
  Easton Iron & Metal Co.   65 77 95 357
  Chas. Pfizer Co.   896 842 620 613
  Easton Printing       8 11
  Hummel Lumber       17 10
  Binney & Smith Co.   151 126 90 98
3.2 ALTA          
4.3 18TH STREET          
4.8 13TH STREET JCT          
9.1 TATAMY          
  Northampton Farm Bureau       35 54
  Equipto       38 29
9.8 L&NE JCT
L&NE Interchange		       562 557
10.1 STOCKERTOWN          
  Hercules Cement   1849 1086 562 664
  Chemtron Chemical       44 53
  Peoples Coal & Supply Co.       21 21
11.1 BELFAST JCT
E-L Interchange		   478 1233 1539 2348

SOUTH SIDE INDUSTRIAL BRANCH – 3 Miles (appears on Traffic Track Diagrams but not on Employee Timetable. No mileages given.
Transogram Co (out of business 12/70)   319 211 – –
  Easton Car & Const. Co.       6 4

BARBER QUARRY BRANCH – 2 Miles (appears on Traffic Track Diagrams but not on Employee Timetable. No mileages given.
Fuller Company   80 82 63 54
  Robt. A. Reichard, Inc.   253 203 198 190
  Hawk Flour Mills   211 185 165 188
  Union Carbide Co.       33 34
  Wenz       6 12

WEST END BRANCH – 3 Miles (appears on Traffic Track Diagrams but not on Employee Timetable. No mileages given.
  McDermott Bros   22 18 8 9
  Allentown Refrigerated Terminal       – 9
  E. Schneider & Sons   51 43 28 24
  Chas. L. Bell Co.   93 103 118 132
  United Compressed Steel         50
  Hummel Warehouse Co.   299 115 139 45
  Harold Stephens Co.   51 49 31 28
  Ice City       9 4
  Hess Brothers       19 19
  R. Peters       17 32
  Ritter & Smith       3 8

MAHONING CREEK BRANCH (Abandoned 1971) – 1.5 Miles (appears on Traffic Track Diagrams but not on Employee Timetable. No mileages given.
Sinclair Refining Co.   19 0 – –
  Hartman Lumber Co.   1 7 – –

HAZLETON BRANCH
By 10/68, this branch was identified as a series of Secondary Tracks and Branches, as shown below

ASHMORE SECONDARY TRACK
0.0 M&H JCT
0.2 PENN HAVEN JCT (abandoned by 10/68)
1.3 HINKLES          
4.3 BLACK CREEK JCT
QUAKAKE BRANCH
5.2 WEATHERLY          
  Weatherly Foundry & Mfg. Co.   132 141 97 103
6.8 HAZLE CREEK JCT          
10.3 ASHMORE R-Hazleton
FREELAND BRANCH

HAZLETON SECONDARY TRACK
10.3 ASHMORE R-Hazleton
12.3 STOCKTON          
14.4 HAZLETON SHOP
15.0 HAZLETON (Freight Office) (abandoned by 10/75)

The industries below are simply listed under Hazleton – no mileages given.
Armour & Company   52 0 0 –
  All Steel Corp.       12 21
  Kawecki-Beryl Corp.
(Beryllium Corp. prior to 1972)		   151 182 115 84
  Canco – White Cap Div.   237 317 298 193
  Dorr-Oliver Corp.   38 41 39 19
  Fabri-Kal Corp.   36 43 19 38
  General Foam Corp.   629 650 508 540
  Gregory Galvanizing & Metal   58 151 48 48
  Hazelton Brick Co.   186 171 154 136
  Hazelton Shaft, Lehigh Valley Anthracite Co.   2933 1283 2724 97
  Laurel Groceries, Inc. (out of business 1970)   66 – – –
  Lion Colliery, Lehigh Valley Anthracite Co.   1652 1406 1316 1606
  Meyer Manufacturing, Inc.   184 394 723 237
  Plastic Systems, Inc.   85 21 0  
  Kama, Inc. (new 1972)       – 41
  Pollock Paper Co., Div. St. Regis   202 130 387 428
  Prestolite Corp.   25 13 18 14
  Starrett Modular Const. Co.
(bought by United Research Homes, Inc. 1971)		   94 6 42 6
  Spaulding Bakeries   305 309 314 397
15.1 LOCUST JCT R-Hazleton
15.2 HAZLETON JCT R-Hazleton
TOMHICKEN BRANCH

CAMP SECONDARY TRACK
15.2 HAZLETON JCT R-Hazleton          
16.5 ONEIDA JCT          
17.1 GRAPE RUN JCT          
17.7 YORK JCT          
18.4 AUDENRIED          
18.8 SHIMER

SHIMER SECONDARY TRACK
18.8 SHIMER          
19.0 AUDENRIED (CNJ/Trescow Branch Crossing)          
20.1 McADOO          
  Beaver Brook Colliery   228 220 607 694
26.9 LAUREL JCT
NEW BOSTON SECONDARY TRACK

DELANO SECONDARY TRACK
26.9 LAUREL JCT          
27.4 PINE JCT          
27.6 DELANO          
  Consolidated Cigar Co.   16 117 16 6
  Carbonite Filter Corp.   17 92 121 139
  Fiberlite Corp.   78 39 66 110
  McAdoo Lumber Co.   10 9 6 3
29.5 PARK PLACE          
31.8 BARRYVILLE          
34.8 SHENANDOAH          
  United Wiping Cloth   58 26 30 25
  Mammoth Coal Co.   36 55 34 22
35.9 KOHINOOR JCT          
39.3 RAVEN RUN          
  Mammoth Colliery, Lehigh Valley Anthracite   438 397 277 10
42.0 ARISTES JCT (abandoned by 8/75)
44.1 CENTRALIA (abandoned by 10/68)
44.5 GERMANTOWN JCT (abandoned by 10/68)
48.6 DIAMONDTOWN (abandoned by 10/68)
49.1 MOUNT CARMEL (abandoned by 10/68)

QUAKAKE BRANCH  (abandoned by 10/68)
0.0 BLACK CREEK JCT
2.1 HUDSONDALE
4.8 GEBHARDS
8.1 STEWARTS
10.9 SWITCHBACK
13.1 QUAKAKE
16.6 PINE JCT

NEW BOSTON SECONDARY TRACK
0.0 LAUREL JCT          
5.2 NEWTON          
  Sky Top Colliery, Gilberton Coal Co.   57 – – 61
9.6 MOREA COLLIERY   48 151 363 20

FREELAND BRANCH (Out of service in 1973 from Pink Ash Jct. to End of Track. Patrons using Harleigh Jct. & Hazleton Stations.)
0.0 ASHMORE R-Hazleton
0.2 NORTH ASHMORE          
1.0 HAZLE BROOK          
1.4 WEST END JEDDO TUNNEL          
1.7 EAST END JEDDO TUNNEL          
2.0 ECKLEY JCT          
  Buckley Colliery, Beaver Brook Coal Co.   1542 1362 1217 1519
3.1 PINK ASH JCT          
3.3 JEDDO          
4.2 DRIFTON          
  Highland #5 Colliery, Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. 1984 1565 – –
5.4 FREELAND (abandoned 10/28/71)
Ira Berger & Sons   28 23 30 2
  Pagnotti Enterprises   59 68 36 52
  Sharps Bakery (out of business 1971)   4 4 2 –

TOMHICKEN BRANCH
0.0 HAZLETON JCT          
0.0 LOCUST JCT          
0.2 CRANBERRY JCT          
0.6 CRANBERRY          
1.7 LONG RUN          
3.8 HARLEIGH JCT
EBERVALE BRANCH
Jeddo #7 Colliery, Jeddo-Highland Coal Co.   4072 2416 3135 3910

GOWEN SECONDARY TRACK
3.8 HARLEIGH JCT          
4.0 CLADDER          
8.4 TOMHICKEN          
10.4 GUM RUN          
13.0 GOWEN COLLIERY   736 650 451 202

EBERVALE BRANCH
0.0 HARLEIGH JCT          
0.5 OAKBUR JCT          
3.4 JEDDO NO. 7          
3.9 VEXIT JCT          
4.8 EBERVALE          
5.8 ELKRAM          
7.7 PINK ASH JCT

NANTICOKE BRANCH (Operated by LVRR after 4/1/72)
0.0 ASHLEY          
  Huber Colliery, Blue Coal Corp.       – 3448
1.2 FRANKLIN BRANCH CROSSING          
  Bowden-Northrup Co.       – 8
  Economy Lumber Co.       – 25
  Post Co., J.B.       – 337
  Penna. Gas & Water Co.       – 21
  Penna. Power & Light Co.       – 4
2.6 Central Scrap & Waste Co.       – 76

FRANKLIN BRANCH
0.0 FRANKLIN          
1.0 NANTICOKE BRANCH CROSSING          
1.3 WICKES LUMBER

PENN CENTRAL WILKES-BARRE BRANCH – 6.1 miles
(L.V.R.R. operating this trackage under temporary authority 1973)
Scott Grocery Co.       – 3
  Frank Henry Lumber Co.       – 11
  Johns-Manville Corp.       – 3
  Air Products & Chemicals Corp.       – 24
  Carter Rubber Co.       – 2
  Allen-Allen Scrap Co.       – 6
  Raineri Brothers       – 3
  Kymond Lumber Co.       – 1
  Louis Cohen & Sons       – 3
  Wyoming Valley Distributing Co.       – 13

WEST PITTSTON BRANCH – 9.4 miles
The Traffic Track Diagrams did not identify the towns, much less the mileage. Maurice Grimes and Kirk Bonanny have provided the town names shown in italics, and locations of some of the industries, and Andy Tuzinski has provided additional info on some industry locations. The approximate mileages were taken from a Mapquest map, which shows the LVRR trackage.
0.0 COXTON YARD OFFICE
FOREST CASTLE
W.P. & E.R.R. Interchange
(LVRR operated West Pittston & Exeter RR at this time. The industries below are actually on the WP&ERR, which was reached via the West Pittston Branch.)		       838 161
  Celotex Corp.
Harding, WP&E		   135 151 39 100
  P.P.&L. Co.
Stanton, WP&E		   2658 2033 748 20
  Suburban Publishers, Inc. WP&E   25 36 51 41
~1.3 WEST PITTSTON
American Chain & Cable, Automotive Div.
(Bridon American in Jan. ’02)		 13 25 4 1
~2.3 EXETER
B.F. Goodrich Co.   119 122 156 159
3.5 WYOMING
Ridgley Vibrated Block Co.   80 60 74 70
~6.7 FORTY FORT
Acme Markets, Inc. (warehouse)   1603 1740 1711 1467
  Arrow Appliance & Electric Dist. Co.   34 19 42 62
  General Cigar Corp.   74 64 98 55
  Forty-Fort Lumber Co.   24 21 18 12
6.8 MALTBY
7.2 HARVEY JCT
Luzerne Lumber Co. 48 50 53 38
8.2 KINGSTON
Biscontini Warhouse Co.   445 447 494 342
  Nelson Bros.   40 39 58 –
  North Branch Lumber Co.
(Mid-State Lumber in Jan. ’02)		   109 154 173 187
Locations of the following industries are unknown (to me – can you help?)
Gold Cup Bakery   19 22 14 7
  Jamy, Inc.       – 35
  J.C. Thomas & Sons   51 49 18 12
  United Foundries, Inc.   39 64 63 92
  U.S. Plywood – Champion Corp.   166 133 161 141

Key:
STATIONS FROM EMPLOYEE TIMETABLES ARE IN CAPITALS
LVRR LOCATIONS FROM TRAFFIC TRACK DIAGRAMS ARE IN ITALIC CAPITALS
A = freight agent, N = no agent, MFA = metropolitan (?) freight agent, PTA = part-time agent
Customer locations from traffic track diagrams are in lower case
Locations listed in earlier Employee Timetables, but deleted in 1975 Employee Timetable No. 10, are shown in gray. If anyone can provide exact dates of abandonment, I will include them.
Stations from the Employee Timetables whose location relative to industries or LVRR installations in the Traffic Track Diagrams are not clear are shown in blue. Also, a few mileages given in the ETT do not agree with the order in which the stations are listed, and these mileages are shown in red. I welcome any information which will help to clear up these discrepancies.

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