Pullman Standard Company Plant, 401 North Twenty-fourth Street, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL. Surveyed as HAER ALA,37-BES,4-, with a 404-word written history.
“Pullman Standard Company Plant, 401 North Twenty-fourth Street, Bessemer, Jefferson County, AL”
Survey record header. Machine-read text.
Surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER ALA,37-BES,4- · the record runs 404 words · one of 208 surveyed structures published for this county.
The headings the report itself prints. Each one jumps to where it begins.
Source document Quoted word for word from HAER ALA,37-BES,4-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.
This report is based upon written documentation donated by the Birmingham Historical Society, reformatted to HABS/HAER guidelines. Description: A brick office building is located in the northwestern portion of the site. The other major buildings are constructed of metal and have direct access into the main shop building for manufacturing and transportation purposes. The site also contains a large rail storage area. Further investigation of the site is required to determine the historic significance, as well as the condition, of the structures located there.
Historical Overview
In Pullman Standard, then one of the nation's largest producers of railway cars, chose Bessemer as the location for its southern plant. The plant was located on the original sites of the Bessemer Furnaces, which were in operation from to the and the Bessemer Rolling Mills, which were operational from to the 192 0s. The Pullman Standard Plant acquired machinery and materials from the old Chickasaw Shipbuilding Company, which had been built in conjunction with U.S. Steel's wartime expansions at Fairfield, and formally opened on October 1, By January the Bessemer plant had built and delivered 600 box cars to National Railways of Mexico. Pullman was later to become Bessemer's largest employee.
The Pullman Standard Plant was acquired by Wheelbrator- Frye in Its operations as Pullman Standard were closed in Trinity Industries, which purchased Pullman, is currently operating facilities at the former Pullman Standard Plant. The company continues to make and modify rai 1 cars, but its production is considerably reduced. PULLMAN STANDARD COMPANY PLANT HAER NO. AL-31 (Page 2) Sources Consulted Site Visit with Jim Bynum, Site Visit with Birmingham Southern Railway officials, White, Marjorie, The Birmingham District, pp.
| Bessemer, Alabama | The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town. |
| Jefferson County, Alabama | 218 topographic sheets across the county. |
| Library of Congress record | The original filed report as the survey filed it. |
The federal surveyors worked through Bessemer building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.
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