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Images of America The Portland Company 1846-1982 by David H Fletcher Soft Cover
Images of America The Portland Company 1846-1982 by David H Fletcher
Soft Cover
Copyright 2002
128 pages
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments Introduction
1.Portland Company Facilities and Employees
2.Railroad Locomotives, Rolling Stock, and Parts
3.Vessels, Marine Engines, and Boilers
4.Automobiles and Trucks
5.Elevators
6.Fire Engines
7.Paper Mill Equipment
8.Lighthouses, Snowplows, and Other Products
THE PORTLAND COMPANY
The Portland Company commenced operations in 1846 in Portland, Maine, under the leadership of John A. Poor. It was founded
primarily to manufacture railroad locomotives for the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad. The company played a major role in the economy and development of the state of Maine and continued in business until 1982, producing a wide range of cast-metal and fabricated products.
The Portland Company manufactured a total of six hundred thirty steam locomotives, starting in 1848, along with hundreds of railroad cars, boilers, marine engines, ships, steam fire engines, elevators, and paper and textile mill equipment. Locomotives, ships, and cannons
were built for the Civil War, and munitions were manufactured for both world wars. Later, the Portland Company produced snowplows, nuclear plant components, and common castings from manhole covers to streetlights. In the early 1900s, the company sold five makes of new automobiles and trucks. In this rich photographic history, the Portland Company and the city of Portland, with its great waterfront and industrial heritage, come to life.
Author David H. Fletcher, a Massachusetts resident with family roots in Maine, is a career educator with a deep interest in railroads, early automobiles, industrial museums, and historical photographs. He was president of the Sandy River Railroad Museum in Phillips, Maine, and a founder of the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum in Portland. He is a restoration consultant for carriage, railroad, and automobile transportation museums. He has spent more than three thousand hours cataloging the Maine
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