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The modern Oil City Iron Works plant grew from a small machine shop and foundry started in Corsicana, Texas in 1866 by John Winship (1826–86) to make parts for his cotton gin. He sold the operation in 1886 to businessmen Joseph Huey (1827–1904), James Garitty (1842–1925), and J. E. Whiteselle (1851–1915), who named it the Corsicana ...
Railway carriage and wagon works is the previously used British English term for a manufacturer of railway rolling stock. It could refer to one of the following: Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company; Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Company; Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company; Lancaster Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
Conshohocken Car Works (1880–) Conshohocken, Pennsylvania [9] Cummings Car Works (1851–1876) Jersey City, New Jersey [9] Darby Corporation (1965–1989 ) Kansas City, Kansas [9] Dauphin Car Works (1880s) Dauphin, Pennsylvania [9] Davenport and Bridges (1834 – c. 1856) Cambridgeport, Massachusetts [9]
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A railroad section gang — including common workers sometimes called gandy dancers — responsible for maintenance of a particular section of railway.One man is holding a bar, while others are using rail tongs to position a rail.
Narrow covered wagon used by west-bound Canadian settlers c. 1885 Painting showing a wagon train of covered wagons. A covered wagon, also called a prairie wagon, whitetop, [1] or prairie schooner, [2] is a horse-drawn or ox-drawn wagon used for passengers or freight hauling.
[5] [6] By 1869 his workshop was too small, and he set up a carriage works at Enniskillen, Ontario. [7] McLaughlin also taught Sunday school in the Presbyterian church there. In 1877, he moved his growing business to Oshawa to take advantage of available labour and railway access in the larger urban centre. [8]
Coach of a noble family, c. 1870 The word carriage (abbreviated carr or cge) is from Old Northern French cariage, to carry in a vehicle. [3] The word car, then meaning a kind of two-wheeled cart for goods, also came from Old Northern French about the beginning of the 14th century [3] (probably derived from the Late Latin carro, a car [4]); it is also used for railway carriages and in the US ...