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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    Yes, it's a reference to McKees Rocks Machine and Erecting Shop, assumedly a division of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. The fullsize image is large, but that's tough to read, even enlarging the page with control-shift-+.
    I shift-controlled enough, like a Fuller Road Ranger into top gear; lap top not epitome of viewing. But thank you sincerely. I bookmark almost every machine maker I run across. But impossible seemingly to grasp how many there were, here and gone.

    To think companies would commission photographers in portrait grade work, as a sales tool.....bet no thought of historical value.
    Last edited by Toolmaker51; Feb 15, 2021 at 01:13 AM.
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