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THE   McMYLER   -   INTERSTATE   COMPANY   BEDFORD   OHIO
LONG   ISLAND   RAIL   ROAD   NUMBERS   222   AND   240
1912   STEAM   PILE   DRIVER   AND   TENDER




IN   MARCH   1949   BILL   RUGEN   PHOTOGRAPHED   THE   222   AT RICHMOND HILL




IN   OCTOBER   1951   BILL   RUGEN   PHOTOGRAPHED   THE   222   AT   PATCHOGUE


1940   POWERED   BY   A   G53sd   ON   JAMAICA   BAY   TRESTLE




BUILDER'S   NAME   CAST   IN   STEEL



BUILT   1912   -   LENGTH   37'  6"   -   STEEL

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"The McMyler-Interstate Co. History.   The largest manufacturing facility in Bedford was located on the west side of Northfield Road, south of Union Street."

GENERAL   INFORMATION   ABOUT   THE   BUILDER

The McMyler-Interstate Co. Bedford, OH
The McMyler-Interstate Company covered 43 acres of land, including 50 buildings with 400,000 square feet of manufacturing floor space. The Company was the result of a consolidation of four companies: The Excelsior Iron Works, dating back to the 1870's; The McMyler Manufacturing Co., dating back to the 1880's; Kaltenbach & Griess, Consulting and Contracting Engineers, formed in 1897; The Interstate Engineering Co., organiged in 1902 The McMyler-Interstate Company was organized in 1910, thus bringing together engineering and manufacturing talent for the design and manufacture of large crane and material handling equipment.

A page from the The McMyler-Interstate Company catalog lists the
following products designed and manufactured by the company:
Steam Crawler Shovels, Gas Crawler Shovels, Electric Crawler Shovels, Steam Crawler Cranes, Gas Crawler Cranes, Electric Crawler Cranes, Steam Locomotive Cranes, Gas Locomotive Cranes, Electric Locomotive Cranes, Barge Fueling Cranes, Special and Broad Gauge Cranes, Stationary Revolving Cranes, Dry Dock Cranes, Pintle Cranes, Shipbuilding Cranes, Cantilever Cranes, Revolving Gantry Cranes, Portal Gantry Cranes, Semi-Portal Gantry Cranes, Roof Type Cargo Cranes, Trolley Type Gantry Cranes, Hammer Head Cranes, Jib Boom Cranes, Coal Handling Bridges, Oar Handling Bridges, Drag Line Buckets, Clam Shell Buckets, Orange Peal Buckets, Fogarty Buckets, Special Large Capacity Buckets, Stone Skips, Car Haulage Machines, Elevating Car Dumpers, Rolling Car Dumpers, Rotary Car Dumpers, Unloading Towers, Coaling Towers, Fast Plants, Special Material Handling Plants, Box Car Unloaders, Skip Hoists, Man Trolleys Gear Blanks, Commercial Machine Work, Turntables, Transfer Tables, Pressed Steel Platforms, Trimming Machinery, Rubber Manufacturing Machines, Mixing Aprons, Tubocol Machinery, Tubular Fuel Plants, Structural Steel (Fabricated), Sand Bins, Screening Towers, Structural Hoppers, Mico-Iron Castings, Hammered and Pressed Forgings, R. R. Switch Stands

[Trade catalogs from McMyler-Interstate Co.]
Company Name: McMyler-Interstate Co. Related companies: McMyler M'F'G Co. ; McMyler Mfg. Co.

Notes content:
Coal and ore handling equipment ; pile drivers ; construction and
earth-moving equipment ; shipbuilding cranes ; locomotive cranes ; other equipment .