A local manufacturing company located at Fourth and Madison streets that quickly pivoted to all things streetcar—cars, trucks and even switches and frogging for track—as the networks started to expand in Portland. After producing some fine cars for the City & West Portland Park Motor Company and the Metropolitan Railway Company, they changed their name to the Columbia Car & Tool Company and moved their works to the Mechanics’ Pavilion in September 1891 to turn out more cars for local streetcar companies.
Not to be confused with the Vulcan Iron Works, an unrelated company operating in Portland at around the same time.
Succeeded by: Columbia Car & Tool Works (1891-???)