. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ^ equipped for his duties. Hewas a Scotchman ))y l)irth, and at anearly age had b(>en bound out or appren- 29 30 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE ticed (which was the custom in that day) toWatchman & Bratt, shipbuilders andbuilders of marine engines then doing busi-ness in Baltimore, Md. Mr. Primroseserved seven years in this plant and passedthrough the different departments of theestablishment, coming out at the end ofhis services as a mechanical his management the shop ex- part of the bridge was dismantled whenthe tunnel and
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ^ equipped for his duties. Hewas a Scotchman ))y l)irth, and at anearly age had b(>en bound out or appren- 29 30 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE ticed (which was the custom in that day) toWatchman & Bratt, shipbuilders andbuilders of marine engines then doing busi-ness in Baltimore, Md. Mr. Primroseserved seven years in this plant and passedthrough the different departments of theestablishment, coming out at the end ofhis services as a mechanical his management the shop ex- part of the bridge was dismantled whenthe tunnel and the new steel bridge werecompleted. The other is a short spanover the race leading into the pulp one time this supported the maintracks. After the Bollman came thesteel truss, many of which were built byMr. Primrose. All the bridges on thePhiladelphia, Trans-Ohio and Central. VIEW OF THE STORAGE PILES AND SCRAP BINS panded and took in the manufacture ofall kinds of machinery used by the Com-pany. Much of the elevator machinerywas designed and built in this A at Locust Point was one ofthe first to be equipped, and others atdifferent points received part or all oftheir machinery from this plant. Themachinery for the rolling mill, which wasoperated at Cumberland, was built standard of workmanship was thehighest on the System, and the productsof the shop were the finest of that day foraccuracy, finish and service. About 1870 the Company started tobuild its own bridges, the Bollman trussbeing the first to be manufactured. Two ofthese bridges can be seen today at HarpersFerry, the wagon bridge over the Potomacto the Mar3dand side, being one, whichwhen built carried the tracks also. This Ohio Divisions were built under hisdirection. About 1890 the building ofbridges was discontinued and the bridgebuilding machinery sold to the BaltimoreBrid
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