Oregon Iron Works subsidiary, located in Clackamas area, lands two big contracts

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Publication: Daily Journal of Commerce (Portland, OR)

Date: 2009-06-03 00:00:00

For Chandra Brown and United Streetcar LLC, it was important to be the first and important to be the best.

Brown, vice president of Oregon Iron Works, the parent company of United Streetcar LLC, led the recent effort by her Clackamas-based company to win a $26 million contract to build seven streetcars for the city of Tucson. That deal, which follows one that United Streetcar made to build six streetcars for the city of Portland, cements her company's status as the first U.S.-based modern streetcar manufacturer.

To date, streetcars sold in the ...

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