Company/Creator:
Russell Car and Snow-Plow Company, Boston Mass.; James Russell
Catalogue Title:
1898 The Russell Snow-Plows and Flangers : Best on Earth, Beats the
World
Details about this publication:
Replica of the original 1898
trade samples catalog of snow removal train / railroad cars in the late 19th
century.
- 26 pages, in very good,
new condition. Flex covers, cloth binding.
- Replica/reprint published by Portable Trunk Publishers. (undated)
Circa 2010.
A delightful look at many different styles of snow plows and related
equipment. This is a "wholesale" catalog that would have been used by
railroad companies to purchase equipment.
Ideal catalog for collectors, designers, restorers, architects or antiques
dealers salvaged architectural building elements.
Profusely illustrated with trade samples rail locomotives from the era.
Thoroughly engaging.
About the company:
The Company has history of being manufactured or represented in Boston MA, Ridgway PA and Maine. Ridgway is the home of some of the largest manufacturing interests of the country, and among these we find the Russell Car & Sow Plow Company, whose plant is located near the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with which it is connected by switches. This enterprise was originally established in 1893 under the firm name of J.H. & J.W. Russell, and its products were manufactured under patents owned by them. In 1902 the present company was organized, and took over the plant. The company was incorporated at the same time under the laws of the State of Maine, with a capital stock of $250,000.00.
The company manufactures snow plows and flangers for steam and electric railroads, also combination car with steel noses for electric railroads. These are made in several sizes and styles to suit conditions where they are to be used, and now are in operation on more than fifty of the leading railroads throughout the snowbelts of the United States and Canada. The plant is modern in architecture. The main building is 74 x 400 feet in size. The forging and machine shop is 100 x 130 feet. This, with the boiler, engine house and yards and office cover several acres. The buildings are built of brick and wood and each department is fitted with the latest improved and best machinery for iron, steel, and wood working. Where the plows are in use they have given universal satisfaction.
They are in every respect of the highest standard, in material and workmanship and have no equal. This, to a large extent, may be accounted for, from the fact that this is the only factory in the world that devotes its entire attention to the manufacture of snow fighting equipment that will fit all conditions.
The officers of the Russell Car & Snow Plow
Company are well known Ridgway men, and are as follows: President, Harry R.
Hyde; Vice Prisident, J.K. Gardner; Secretary and Treasurer, Chas. E.
Lockhart; General manager, John M. Flyn; Superintendent, P.G. Minier; Sales
manager, M.S. Kline. These gentlemen with the addition of P.R. Smith,
consitute the board of directors. They are men who hold large interests in
the community and stand high in the manufacturing, commercial, and financial
world. -- Source: Elk County Historical Society Archives --
Soft cover, paperback edition in very good condition, with typical slight
wear to edges and spine from being moved around the shop, stored flat.
Firmly readable, ideal for reference and collecting. Very nice.
Clean Text. Very Good condition. Text is in English.
Reproduced directly from the original.
Modern, undated replica. -- Facsimile edition
-- Defects: None found.
General bookshop wear.
**** Some sections from the original source may have used
smaller text,
thus those sections of the reprint may be a little
hard to read.
Enjoy!
Location: from inventory, Russell Show Plows
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