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My road is the I.T.& T. RR, the Ironbound Terminal & Transfer Railroad. Protyping Newark, NJ's one-time heavy industrial area, it does private-line switching from the Oak Island yards of CONRAIL, CSX and Norfolk Southern. Our industries include a chemical plant,a paint factory,a lumber yard,a concrete batch-plant served by water and rail,a burned-out tallow plant,a plastic extruder, a feather and down processor, a boiler/furnace warehouse distributor, a steel door mfgr.,a municipal incinerator, a cold-storage warehouse and a scrap yard. Most of the structures are gritty, grimy and graffitied buildings.The area is called "Ironbound" because many years ago it was about 2 sq. miles of space surrounded by the Lehigh Valley,Central RR of NJ, Penn Central and Lackawanna, thus it was Ironbound. Today, it is largely ethnic Portugese so I get most of my signage from the Portugese/Brazilian area classified telephone book. Mixed in with the industrial area are residences and small businesses. All of my three children and 8 grandchildren have their names worked into the structures.
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