Filer and Stowell

Filer & Stowell is a company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the United States of America. [cite web
url = http://www.filerstowell.com/
title = Filer & Stowell
work = Corporate website
accessdate = 2008-02-07] Founded by Delos Filer and John Stowell in 1856, the company has produced equipment primarily for the lumber industry, largely for lumber mills but also in the past stationary steam engines, marine steam engines and even steam locomotives for logging lines.

Locomotives

Filer & Stowell produced a line of steam locomotives from the 1880s for the logging industry. They were simply constructed, tough and easy to maintain, and employed oscillating cylinders, an extreme rarity in locomotive practice. "A large number" were produced, mostly for customers in the southern and south-eastern United States. [cite journal
title = Filer & Stowell logging locomotives
first = Gordon
last = Odegard
journal = Model Railroader
year = 1976
month = May
volume = 43
issue = 5
pages = pp. 46–49]

tationary steam engines

Filer & Stowell produced large Corliss engines, both simple and compound, originally for lumber mill power but also for other applications.

hipping

Filer & Stowell produced marine steam engines for a number of years, and were one of fourteen engine manufacturers to produce the triple expansion steam engines for the World War II Liberty ships. [cite web
url = http://files.asme.org/asmeorg/Communities/History/Landmarks/3126.pdf
title = Liberty Ship
author = American Society of Mechanical Engineers
work = National Historical Engineering Landmarks
accessdate = 2008-02-07]

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