Dallas Contracting Co. Inc., South Plainfield, N.J., has donated a historic railroad artifact to the New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center.
The capstan rail car puller was salvaged from the demolition operations being conducted at the old Pequanoc Rubber Co. plant, which is part of a $14 million revitalization project of downtown Butler, N.J.
Dallas Contracting Co. was contracted to demolish the entire rubber plant. The site if approximately 6.5 acres and includes various industrial buildings, including several outside tank farms and a power/boiler house. As part of the demolition a large amount of railroad track needed to be removed.
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