The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . ield. It is said that Tom Paine built an iron truss-bridge. Be this as it may, there were iron bridges spanningthe Erie canal as early as 1840; and by 1847 a company—theNew York Iron Bridge Company—had been formed for the ex-clusive manufacture of such structures. A bridge built by thiscompany on the Harlem Railroad is described in the AmericanRailroad Journal for November 27th, 1847; and an iron Howerailroad bridge was already in existence on the North Adamsbranch of the Boston and Albany Railroad, a few miles north ofP
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . ield. It is said that Tom Paine built an iron truss-bridge. Be this as it may, there were iron bridges spanningthe Erie canal as early as 1840; and by 1847 a company—theNew York Iron Bridge Company—had been formed for the ex-clusive manufacture of such structures. A bridge built by thiscompany on the Harlem Railroad is described in the AmericanRailroad Journal for November 27th, 1847; and an iron Howerailroad bridge was already in existence on the North Adamsbranch of the Boston and Albany Railroad, a few miles north ofPittsfield, in April, 1847, where it was examined by SquireWhipple. In 1848 Whipple built two iron bridges on the Erie so Ml- !?..? \ R I. \ ? J^XA MP I. ES 47 Railroad; in 1849 he built two more near the Chester junctionot the Newburgh branch of the Erie. In 1852-53 the first ironrailroad bridge of considerable span, being 150 feet to centreof bearings, was erected on the Albany Northern Railroad atthe crossing of the Erie canal between the cities of Troy and. J. L. PIPER,Who, with Aaron (i. Shiffler, founded the Keystone Bridjfe Works. Cohoes. It Stood for thirty years, and was removed in goodcondition to make way for a double-track bridge. A bridge ofthe same description was built in 1854 for the Black River andUtica Railroad at Utica. In 1855 one was built for the sarneroad at Boonville, Oneida County. During the decade between1850 and i860, which brings us to the time of Piper and 48 IROy KAIL WAY BRIDGES Shiffler, the firm of S. & J. M. Whipple alone built over a hun-dred iron bridges of all kinds and shapes. In 1863 the DetroitIron Bridge Works was organized into a joint stock company;and its prospectus states that its manager had for some yearsprevious been engaged in the construction of iron bridges forrailways. Thus, so far from being the pioneer in the iron railroadbridge business, Mr. Carnegie occupied a position a long waydown the list. When he finally did becom
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