| A CN local, with a friendly engineer, passes the historic Eagle Manufacturing Co. complex, partially visible in background, as it heads northeast via former C&NW rails at Appleton, WI on 23 Aug. '13. Train was enroute to Little Chute and Kaukauna. Eagle Manufacturing Co., makers of gasoline engines, tractors, and other farm implements, was incorporated in Dec. 1888 in the Flats at Appleton, WI. They began construction of this new factory in 1904, after they outgrew their original facility. It shared that block with the Ideal Lumber and Coal Co. and C. D. Rowell & Son, Manufacturing, makers of car movers. Eagle erected several additions over the years until it occupied most of the block. The historic factory was demolished in late-2014/early-2015 and some wonderful new apartments or condominiums are in the final stage of construction as of Aug. ’15. There used to be a diamond on the opposite side of the locomotive, where two spurs intersected to service several industries in that block. |