On this building, I can make out "Erie Engine."
A 125-horsepower Erie steam engine survives just outside Lagrange, Indiana, where it operates a sawmill during the
Northeast Indiana Historic Power show every August. Here's a photo of the engine:
Another major industry in Erie was Skinner Engine Works, builders of large industrial and marine steam engines. Here are a couple of their modest-sized engines at the
Hesston Steam Museum, where they operate every year on Independence Day weekend and Labor Day weekend. First is an engine powering a sawmill:
A smaller Skinner engine drives a generator. This power plant was installed in the LaPorte County Courthouse in the early 1900s:
I have more machinery-geek stuff, including some 1950s photos of various diesel and electric locomotives at GE Transportation's Erie Works, but no good photos of the buildings, themselves, so I'll stop now.