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Gunderson LLC company history timeline

1970

In 1970, Gunderson Brothers Engineering became Gunderson, Inc., and produced the first 100-ton, all-steel covered hopper cars for the newly merged Burlington Northern Railroad.

1971

Al Gunderson died in 1971 and the company was sold two years later to the FMC Corporation.

1974

Throughout the 1970s and into the mid-1980s, Gunderson continued making railroad cars and barges. It also manufactured several oil tankers for Chevron, the first ships built in Portland since World War II. The first of the oil tankers, the 650-foot Oregon, was launched in 1974 and christened by the wife of Oregon's governor.

1979

In 1979, Commercial Metals bought out M.D. Friedman and hired the newly formed James-Furman and Company to manage the leasing operation.

1981

When Commercial Metals decided to sell its leasing operation in 1981, James and Furman purchased it through The Greenbrier Companies.

1991

Lavalin spun off the railroad-car manufacturing facility in 1991, which operated independently as Trenton Works, Inc. until it was purchased by The Greenbrier Companies.

1994

Greenbrier Goes Public in 1994

1995

By 1995, Gunderson had built more than 85,000 railway cars.

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