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Brake beam department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Brake Beam Department--North". The Chicago Railway Equipment Company was established in 1887, and in its first twenty years of operation it produced and sold over six million brake beams. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2387.html. ) Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Shipping department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
Assembling department
Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
General views, looking S.W. and west
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoViews of Chicago Railway Equipment Co. plant in Marion, Indiana.
Furnace rooms and annealing building
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "General Views looking North Showing Furnace Rooms--looking East Showing Annealing Building and New Foundries". Photograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
Chicago general offices
Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
Shop No. 2
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "N. E. Corner Shop No. 2."
Bolster department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Bolster Dep't Hydraulic Press Multiple Punch". Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Tool department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoTool department for Chicago Railway Equipment Company.
Shop No. 1
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Section of Shop No. 1".
Forge department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Bolt and rivet department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Office and old power plant
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Office and Old Power Plant View from South Corner". Photograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
John P. Ahrens, E. B. Leigh and E. T. Walker
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "John P. Ahrens, Vice President
Board of directors
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Board of Directors: E. L. Adreon, John P. Ahrens, Jesse A. Baldwin, E. B. Leigh, F. P. Hays, C. S. Gleed, Albert Blair".
Draughting department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoDraughting department for Chicago location of the Chicago Railway Equipment Company.
Power room
Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
Brake beam department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Brake Beam Department--South". The Chicago Railway Equipment Company was established in 1887, and in its first twenty years of operation it produced and sold over six million brake beams. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2387.html. ) Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Bird's-eye view
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.
Solid beam department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.
Assembling department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.
Shipping department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Marion facility.
Annealing department
Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoPhotograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.

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