Portland Company
by Richard Bean
Title
Portland Company
Artist
Richard Bean
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Photograph
Description
© Richard Bean
2013
Portland Company
Portland, Maine
The Portland Company was established 10 November 1846 by John A. Poor and Norris Locomotive Works engineer Septimus Norris as a locomotive foundry to build railroad equipment for the adjacent Portland terminus of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad connection between Portland, Maine and Montreal.[1] The shops opened for business in October, 1847.[2] Its first locomotive, the Augusta, emerged from the shops in July 1848 for delivery to the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth (later part of the Boston and Maine Railroad). Over the next several decades, the Company produced in its Fore Street facilities over 600 steam locomotives as well as 160 merchant and naval vessels, railcars, construction equipment, Knox automobiles, and the like. Portland Company built the engines of the civil war side-wheel gunboats Agawam and Pontoosuc.[3] Taking into account its other products, the Company could lay claim to being one of the leading medium-to-heavy steel manufacturers in New England. The company ceased production in 1978.
Presently, according to The Portland Company Complex website, the site has become a marine-oriented complex with a small marina, several marine as well as other office tenants and the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Co. & Museum.
Captured April 21, 2013
5:33 PM
Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 150-500mm f/5-6.3 APO OS
ISO 200
Focal Length: 150mm
f/13
1/160 sec
Shutter Priority
Final processing with Lightroom 6.5.1, Photoshop CS6, and various plug ins.
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April 23rd, 2013
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