LIRR INDUSTRIES QUEENS/BROOKLYN

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.

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.

Miron Lumber- flat cars, boxcars.

Brooklyn Steel Warehouse boxcars, flat cars, gondolas. Steel beams and structural steel.

Republic Steel boxcars, flat cars, gondolas. Steel beams and structural steel.

Grace Chemical manufactered rolled plastic products. Covered hoppers and boxcars. Tank cars.

Bohack Grocery- huge multi building complex groceries, produce and meat. Boxcars, refers.

Welbuilt- 54th St and Flushing appliance manufacturer large multi building facility boxcars.

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.

Atlas Terminals (Hemidinger Estates) Metropolitan Avenue 80th St to 88th St industrial location, many sidings. Ended at Glendale Steel Warehouse structural steel.

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"

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.