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The Columbia Steel Company was organized in 1909 with main offices at 503 Market Street, San Francisco. When formed the company had one plant in Portland, Oregon, established in 1903 and a bigger plant in Pittsburg, California, established in 1909–1910.
A ladle of hot metal is poured in an archival photo taken at a former ESCO foundry in Portland, Ore. ESCO was founded in 1913 by Oregon businessman Charles (C.F.) Swigert as a local source of steel castings. The Electric Steel Foundry Company was founded on property once occupied by the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.
Oregon Steel began as Gilmore Steel in 1926 when William G. Gilmore started the company. [3] Thomas Boklund became president of Oregon Steel Mills in 1982, CEO in 1985 and chairman of the board in 1992. [4] In 1987 the company became Oregon Steel Mills. [3] and went public in 1988 (trading on the NYSE as OS), launching a series of acquisitions. [4]
The yard in 1945 Newly constructed sternwheelers fitting out at Willamette Iron Works in 1898.. Willamette Iron Works (also known as Willamette Iron and Steel Company or WISCO) was a general foundry and machine business established in 1865 in Portland, Oregon, originally specializing in the manufacture of steamboat boilers and engines. [1]
1910 postcard showing the North Bank Bridge over the Columbia River. Burlington Northern Railroad Bridge 9.6 or BNSF Railway Bridge 9.6, [3] also known as the Columbia River Railroad Bridge, [4] is through truss railway bridge across the Columbia River, between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, owned and operated by BNSF Railway. [3]
Steel Hands Brewing, which has a location at 2350 Foreman St. in Cayce, as well as a Greensboro, N.C. spot, has issued its intent to apply for alcohol licenses at 705-A Gervais St. in Columbia’s ...
The other Vancouver yard, located just west of what was then the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway bridge (now the BNSF bridge, ) produced steel-hulled The Portland yard was located about a mile to the west, just downstream from the BNSF bridge ( 45°36′26″N 122°41′08″W / 45.60729°N 122.68569°W / 45.60729; -122.68569
Columbia Helicopters, Incorporated (CHI) is an aircraft manufacturing and operator company based in Aurora, Oregon, United States. It is known for operating tandem rotor helicopters; in present times, exclusively the Boeing Vertol 107 and Boeing Vertol 234 .