I was on a bike ride today along River Rd/Front St. in Florence, NJ today. The Griffon Pipe plant next to the NJ/PA Turnpike bridge in Florence has been demolished in this past year. The track on the far end of the plant property that crosses Front St. was recently removed.
The ties are stacked, the dirt is still fresh. Front St/River Rd in front of the plant was repaved in the last year with the signal-less crossing actually getting upgraded with concrete. That line still runs in the center of 5th St. in Florence and winds back to the old Camden-Amboy line. It was dead when Griffon Pipe's NJ manufacturing closed a few years ago. The Griffon site is just a storage yard now, just like US Pipe down the road, for pipe produced at other plants across the country. US Pipe Burlington's manufacturing was demolished two years ago but they still have their line, little locomotive, and crane car. They pulled in shipments of pipe to store earlier in the year.
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The ties are stacked, the dirt is still fresh. Front St/River Rd in front of the plant was repaved in the last year with the signal-less crossing actually getting upgraded with concrete. That line still runs in the center of 5th St. in Florence and winds back to the old Camden-Amboy line. It was dead when Griffon Pipe's NJ manufacturing closed a few years ago. The Griffon site is just a storage yard now, just like US Pipe down the road, for pipe produced at other plants across the country. US Pipe Burlington's manufacturing was demolished two years ago but they still have their line, little locomotive, and crane car. They pulled in shipments of pipe to store earlier in the year.
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