Raritan River Railroad - Current Operations

Current Operations

Customers, as of summer 2006
Mile Company Materials
1.0 Gerdau Steel scrap (inbound), rebars (outbound)
4.6 Hercules Chemical Company
5.5 AmeriSteel steel
5.7 Riverside Supply brick
9.4 Mauser plastic
11.2 Silverline Windows plastic

Under CSX and Norfolk Southern, the old RRRR line still has six or so customers keeping the line active. Steel, bricks, and plastic, and the occasional box car, can be spotted. AmeriSteel was added recently in Sayreville. Trains still run almost daily from Browns Yard.

Gerdau Steel is on the eastern end of the old Phoenix Spur and still receiving steel. Bricks, one of the commodities moved in significant quantities in the Raritan's beginning, are still shipped on the line to Riverside Supply. Mauser is the only company left in the East Brunswick Highview complex still receiving freight. The East Brunswick spur is still connected to the main, but receives no freight. Of almost a dozen spurs once in East Brunswick, only one still receives freight. On the western end, Silverline Windows still receives 5-10 cars of plastic pellets per week. Trains usually run twice a week to Silverline.

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