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Name: Rensselaer Iron Works (view items)
Industry type: Materials
Industry: Iron
Country: United States
State/County/Province: New York
City: Troy
Start year: 1866
End year: 1969
Company: Rensselaer Iron Co.
Notes: Note: The start year given above is noted on a slide in the Vogel collection.

J. Leander Bishop in "History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860" gives the date for RIC as 1847.

The Rensselaer Iron Co. produced rail c. 1864 which was used in construction of the Central Pacific Railroad in California and was advertising as early as 1860.

http://cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/RIC_Rail_1864.html