When I was young, and growing up in Hoboken, the railroads ( Erie, Lackawanna, Hoboken Shore), all served various industries. Hostess received boxcars of bagged coconut for various cakes, Maxwell House coffee was shipped in boxcars, and right next door to that was American Can, which made tin cans, not only for Maxwell House, but other companies. There was also Lipton Tea, various river piers, and coal companies. Even when I moved to PA in 1995, the Lackawaxen & Stourbridge (which was once a branch line of the Erie Lackawanna) served a lumber company, a local coal distributor, a company that turned out raw bats that would be shipped to Louisville Slugger to be finished into baseball bats, and I don’t know what else. Dairies also received raw milk in cans or tanks in box cars and reefers.
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