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NewVoatAccountName 2 points ago +2 / -0

For reference on your last point, the $402,817 weekly payroll would have been anywhere from $3,854,603 to $10,590,425, depending on whether that "peak of production" was closer to the plant's 1956 bankruptcy or the plant's 1825 opening respectively. Source

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brassmule 2 points ago +2 / -0

That would have been 1918, since production for Model of 1917s effectively ended in December, 1918, due to the end of the war. These stats are just for the workers employed at the plant to make rifles for the US military, and not related to the locomotive capacity at all (which was still happening).