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Fulton Car Works/W.W. Wetherell (1839–1860s) Sandusky, Ohio [9] Gantt Manufacturing Company (1973–) Greenville, South Carolina [ 9 ] General American Transportation Corp. ( GATX ) (1898–) Sharon, Pennsylvania/East Chicago, Indiana/Warren, Ohio [ 9 ] (carbuilding operations to Trinity Industries 1984)
A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus: Finding the Past in the Present in Ohio's Capital City. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0821420126. OCLC 886535510. Lee, Alford Emory (1892), History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio, Vol. 2 of 2, Chicago, Illinois: Munsell & Co. Lentz, Ed (2003). Columbus: The Story of a City. The ...
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
Richard Duckering Ltd. of the Waterside Works, Lincoln then undertook to supply spares for railcars and shunting locomotives, [10] but this was to pass to Stanley Reid Devlin, who had been Chief Draughtsman at Clayton Wagons, who in 1931 founded the Clayton Equipment Company, who still operate from the Centrum Business Park in Burton upon Trent ...
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
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.
On 7 December 1899, the carriage works was destroyed by fire. "We were helpless," R.S. "Sam" McLaughlin later told Maclean's Magazine, "we could only stand and watch our life's work go up in flames. Not only we McLaughlins, but the six hundred men who depended for a living on the carriage works." [8] The City of Oshawa lent McLaughlin $50,000 ...
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 ...