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Description
The car shop at the Portland Company, where log bunks are being made. The ones in the photo are for the Somerset Railroad.
They show the "link and pin" coupler style used on most railroad cars of that period. The coupler was later banned because of the hazard to brakemen.
About This Item
- Title: Portland Company car shop, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 29 Folder 10/11
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Machine shops--Maine--Portland
- Railroads
- Somerset Railway
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
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