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- Engineer Ole Garras Receiving Switching Orders by Radio/Telephone, Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant Railroad Yard, August 1950 - Some 100 miles of railroad track covered the grounds of Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant. The automaker maintained its own fleet of locomotives to move incoming railcars loaded with raw materials, and outgoing railcars filled with finished parts and automobiles, around the complex. Additionally, specialized tank cars ferried molten iron from the factory's blast furnaces to its foundry.
- August 14, 1950
- Collections - Artifact
Engineer Ole Garras Receiving Switching Orders by Radio/Telephone, Ford Motor Company Rouge Plant Railroad Yard, August 1950
Some 100 miles of railroad track covered the grounds of Ford Motor Company's Rouge plant. The automaker maintained its own fleet of locomotives to move incoming railcars loaded with raw materials, and outgoing railcars filled with finished parts and automobiles, around the complex. Additionally, specialized tank cars ferried molten iron from the factory's blast furnaces to its foundry.