Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works was a 19th-century manufacturer of railroad steam locomotives based in
PatersonPaterson is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 149,222. Census population projections indicate a population of 146,545 as of 2007, making it New Jersey's third largest city. It is the county seat of Passaic County...
, in
Passaic CountyPassaic County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2000 Census, the population was 489,049. Its county seat is Paterson. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area....
,
New JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and...
in the United States. They built more than six thousand steam locomotives for railroads around the world. Most railroads in 19th-century United States rostered at least one Rogers-built locomotive. The company's most famous product was a locomotive named
The GeneralThe General is a type 4-4-0 steam locomotive that was the subject of the Great Locomotive Chase of the American Civil War. The locomotive is preserved at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.-...
, built in December 1855, which was one of the principals of the
Great Locomotive ChaseFor the 1956 Walt Disney film, see The Great Locomotive Chase.The Great Locomotive Chase or Andrews' Raid was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American Civil War...
of the
American Civil WarThe American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several other names, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America...
. Rogers was the second-most popular American locomotive manufacturer of the 19th century behind the
Baldwin Locomotive WorksThe Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad locomotives. It was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania originally, and later in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania...
amongst almost a hundred manufacturers.
The company was founded by
Thomas RogersThomas Rogers was an American mechanical engineer and founder of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey. Fellow locomotive designer and builder, Zerah Colburn said that "Thomas Rogers maybe fairly said to have done more for the modern American locomotive than any of his...
in an 1832 partnership with
Morris KetchumMorris Ketchum was an American banker and financier of the 19th century. In 1832 he partnered with Thomas Rogers and Jasper Grosvenor to form the manufacturing firm of Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor; this firm eventually grew into Rogers Locomotive Works, the second most popular steam locomotive...
and
Jasper GrosvenorJasper Grosvenor was an American financier of the early to mid 19th century. In 1832 he partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form the manufacturing firm Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor which became the second most popular steam locomotive manufacturing company in North America in the...
as Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor. Rogers remained president until his death in 1856 when his son,
Jacob S. RogersJacob S. Rogers was the son of Thomas Rogers, the founder of Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor. When Thomas Rogers died in 1856, Jacob took over the business and reorganized it as Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works and served as the company's president...
, took the position and reorganized the company as Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works. The younger Rogers led the company until he retired in 1893.
Robert S. HughesRobert S. Hughes was the third president of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works. Before becoming president when Jacob S. Rogers resigned in 1893, he served as the company's treasurer...
then became president and reorganized the company as Rogers Locomotive Company, which he led until his death in 1900.
Rogers avoided the
American Locomotive CompanyThe American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO or Alco , was a builder of railroad locomotives in the United States.-Early history:...
(ALCO) merger in 1901 through closing and reopening as Rogers Locomotive Works. The company remained independent until 1905 when ALCO purchased it; ALCO continued building new steam locomotives at the Rogers plant until 1913. ALCO used the Rogers facilities through the 1920s as a parts storage facility and warehouse, but eventually sold the property to private investors. Today, several Rogers-built locomotives exist in railroad museums around the world, and the plant's erecting shop is preserved as the Thomas Rogers Building; it is the current location of the
Paterson MuseumPaterson Museum is a museum in Paterson, in Passaic County, New Jersey in the United States. Founded in 1925, it is owned and run by the city of Paterson and its mission is to preserve and display the industrial history of Paterson...
whose mission is to preserve and display Paterson's industrial history.
1831 to 1856: Thomas Rogers era
The firm that was to become Rogers Locomotive Works began in 1831.
Thomas RogersThomas Rogers was an American mechanical engineer and founder of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey. Fellow locomotive designer and builder, Zerah Colburn said that "Thomas Rogers maybe fairly said to have done more for the modern American locomotive than any of his...
had been designing and building machinery for
textileA textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw wool fibres, linen, cotton, or other material on a spinning wheel to produce long strands...
manufacturing for nearly 20 years when he sold his interest in Godwin, Rogers & Company (of which he was the Rogers part of the name) in June of that year. Rogers set out on his own with a new company called Jefferson Works in
PatersonPaterson is a city in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 149,222. Census population projections indicate a population of 146,545 as of 2007, making it New Jersey's third largest city. It is the county seat of Passaic County...
,
New JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and...
. The Jefferson Works built textile and agricultural machinery for a year before Rogers met the two men who would help transform the company into a major locomotive manufacturer.
In 1832, Rogers partnered with two investors from New York City,
Morris KetchumMorris Ketchum was an American banker and financier of the 19th century. In 1832 he partnered with Thomas Rogers and Jasper Grosvenor to form the manufacturing firm of Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor; this firm eventually grew into Rogers Locomotive Works, the second most popular steam locomotive...
and
Jasper GrosvenorJasper Grosvenor was an American financier of the early to mid 19th century. In 1832 he partnered with Thomas Rogers and Morris Ketchum to form the manufacturing firm Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor which became the second most popular steam locomotive manufacturing company in North America in the...
. Jefferson Works was renamed Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor, and the company began to diversify into the railroad industry. The company soon manufactured springs, axles and other small parts for railroad use.
The first locomotive that Rogers' company assembled was actually built by
Robert Stephenson and CompanyRobert Stephenson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company founded in 1823. It was the first company set up specifically to build railway engines.- Foundation and early success :...
of England in 1835. This locomotive was the
McNeil for the
Paterson and Hudson River RailroadThe Paterson and Hudson River Railroad was a railroad that operated in New Jersey and connected the cities of Jersey City and Paterson. The railroad was started in 1833 and connected with the Paterson and Ramapo Railroad in Paterson. The two lines provided a shorter route from Suffern to New York...
. It took another two years before Rogers received their first order for a complete locomotive. In 1837, the
Mad River and Lake Erie RailroadThe Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad was the second railroad to be built and operated in the U.S. state of Ohio...
ordered two locomotives from Rogers to form the beginning of the railroad's roster. The first of these two locomotives was the
SanduskySandusky was the name of a steam railroad locomotive, a 4-2-0, built in the United States. This locomotive included engineering features that hadn't been used before in locomotive construction and it played an integral role in the railroad history of Ohio....
, which became the first locomotive to cross the
Allegheny MountainsThe Allegheny Mountain Range — informally, the Alleghenies — is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the eastern United States and Canada...
(albeit by canal boat and not by rail), and the first locomotive to operate in
OhioOhio is a Midwestern state of the United States. The thirty-fourth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the seventh-most populous with nearly 11.5 million residents...
.
Sandusky included features designed by Thomas Rogers that had not been seen in locomotive construction to date. It was also the first locomotive to use cast
ironIron is a metallic chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a group 8 and period 4 element and is therefore classified as a transition metal. Iron and iron alloys are by far the most common metals and the most common ferromagnetic materials in everyday use...
driving wheelOn a steam locomotive, a driving wheel is a powered wheel which is driven by the locomotive's pistons...
s, and the wheels included built-in counterweights to reduce the amount of wear on the
trackRail tracks are the surface structures that support and guide trains or other rail-guided transportation vehicles.Most familiarly they consist of* two steel rails on which the vehicle wheels run,...
caused by the weight of the driving rod and wheel all coming down at once during the wheels' rotations. Before
Sanduskys construction, driving wheels were typically built with woodWood is an organic material; in the strict sense wood is produced as secondary xylem in the stems of trees . In a living tree it transfers water and nutrients to the leaves and other growing tissues, and has a support function, enabling woody plants to reach large sizes or to stand up for themselves...
en spokes, much like wagonA wagon or dray is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle. Wagons were formerly pulled by animals such as horses, mules or oxen. Today farm wagons are pulled by tractors and trucks. Wagons are used for transporting people or goods...
wheels. Some accounts also state that Sandusky was the first locomotive to feature a
whistleA train whistle or air whistle, , is an audible signaling device on a steam locomotive used to warn that the train is approaching, and to communicate with rail workers....
, but this has since been proven false.
Rogers was not working completely alone in locomotive manufacturing. In 1837, in addition to building the company's first locomotive, Rogers also filled orders from fellow locomotive builders
Matthias W. BaldwinMatthias William Baldwin was an American manufacturer of steam locomotives. He opened his machine shop in 1825...
(founder of
Baldwin Locomotive WorksThe Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad locomotives. It was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania originally, and later in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania...
) and
William NorrisWilliam Norris was an American steam locomotive builder. He founded the Norris Locomotive Works and through this company pioneered the use of the 4-2-0 locomotive type in America during the 1840s....
(founder of
Norris Locomotive WorksThe Norris Locomotive Works was a steam locomotive manufacturing company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that produced about a thousand engines between 1836 and 1860. It was the dominant American locomotive producer during most of that period, and was even selling its popular 4-2-0...
) for locomotive tires of various sizes. Once Rogers started working on his own locomotives, however, no further orders from either Baldwin or Norris were forthcoming. Within Rogers own shop,
William SwinburneWilliam Swinburne was a pioneering builder of steam locomotives in the United States.Swinburne was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1805. By 1833 he had moved to Paterson, New Jersey, where, in 1837 he was employed by Rogers, Ketchum and Grosvenor as a pattern maker. He left Rogers employ in 1848...
worked as the shop foreman until he moved on to form his own locomotive manufacturing company,
Swinburne, Smith and CompanySwinburne, Smith and Company was a railroad locomotive manufacturing company of the mid-19th century. The company was founded in 1845, in Paterson, New Jersey, by a partnership between William Swinburne and Samuel Smith...
in 1845. After Swinburne left Rogers,
John CookeJohn Cooke was one of the principals of Cooke Locomotive Works, one of the constituent companies that made up American Locomotive Company in the merger of 1901....
also worked at the Rogers plant. Like Swinburne, Cooke later went on to form his own locomotive manufacturing firm,
Danforth, Cooke & CompanyThe Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, located in Paterson, New Jersey, manufactured steam railroad locomotives from 1852 until it was merged with seven other manufacturers to form American Locomotive Company in 1901...
. Another engineer who worked at Rogers was
Zerah ColburnZerah Colburn was an American engineer specialising in steam locomotive design, technical journalist and publisher.- Career :Without any formal schooling, Colburn was a teenage prodigy...
, the well known locomotive engineer and, later editor and publisher. Colburn was, around 1854, 'superintendent and/or consultant' at the works where he introduced a number of improvements in locomotive design.
Rogers locomotives were, from very early in the company's history, seen as powerful, capable engines on American railroads. The Uncle Sam
, serial number 11, a 4-2-0 built in 1839 for the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, was noted by American Railroad Journal
for hauling a 24-car train up a grade of at 24.5 mphThe mile per hour is a unit of speed, measured in Imperial units expressing the number of international miles covered per hour.It is currently the unit used for speed limits, and speeds, on roads in the United Kingdom and United States...
(39 km/h). In 1846, Rogers built what is referred to as the largest 6-wheel truck engine (4-2-0In the Whyte notation, a 4-2-0 is a railroad steam locomotive that consists of a 4-wheel leading truck followed by a single driving axle. This type of locomotive, often called a Jervis type, was common on American railroads from the 1830s through the 1850s.Other equivalent classifications are:
) in the United States; the Licking, serial number 92, built for the Mansfield and Sandusky Railroad, generated 110 pounds-force per square inch (760 kPa) of steam pressure and could pull a 380-short tonThe short ton is a unit of weight equal to . In the United States it is often called simply ton without distinguishing it from the metric ton or the long ton ; rather, the other two are specifically noted. There are, however, some U.S...
(345 tonneA tonne or metric ton , also referred to as a metric tonne, is a measurement of mass equal to , or approximately the mass of one cubic metre of water. It is not an SI unit but is accepted for use with the SI...
) train up a grade of 16 feet per mile (3 m/km).
Arguably, the most famous locomotive to come out of the Rogers shops was built in 1855. Rogers built a 4-4-0 (a locomotive with two unpowered leading axles and two powered driving axles), serial number 631, in December of that year for the Western and Atlantic RailroadThe Western and Atlantic Railroad is a historic railroad that operated in the southeastern United States from Atlanta, Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee.It was founded on December 21 1836 as the Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia...
. The railroad named the locomotive The GeneralThe General is a type 4-4-0 steam locomotive that was the subject of the Great Locomotive Chase of the American Civil War. The locomotive is preserved at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.-...
. This locomotive is now on display at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive HistoryThe Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History is a museum in Kennesaw, Georgia, that contains a collection of artifacts and relics from the American Civil War, as well as from railroads of the state of Georgia and surrounding regions...
(the Big Shanty Museum) in KennesawKennesaw is a city in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 21,675 at the 2000 census. Census estimates 2007 indicate a population of 31,613. The original name for the town was Big Shanty...
, GeorgiaGeorgia is a state in the United States. One of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution, it had been the last of the Thirteen Colonies to be established, in 1733. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January...
.
Not only were Rogers locomotives known in the industry for their power, but they were also known for their endurance. It is estimated that one locomotive, Illinois Central RailroadThe Illinois Central Railroad , sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, is a railroad in the central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois with New Orleans, Louisiana and Birmingham, Alabama. A line also connected Chicago with Sioux City, Iowa...
4-4-0 number 23, serial number 449, built in December 1853, operated over one million miles in its thirty-year career on the Illinois Central.
1856 to 1905: Reorganization and decline
When Thomas Rogers died in 1856, his son Jacob S. RogersJacob S. Rogers was the son of Thomas Rogers, the founder of Rogers, Ketchum & Grosvenor. When Thomas Rogers died in 1856, Jacob took over the business and reorganized it as Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works and served as the company's president...
reorganized RK&G, with Ketchum and Grosvenor remaining as investors, as the Rogers Locomotive & Machine Works. Rogers built their first 2-6-0In the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a 2-6-0 has a pair of leading wheels followed by six driving wheels. This arrangement is commonly called a Mogul...
, which is sometimes referred to as the first 2-6-0 built in the United States, in 1863 for the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company. The company continued manufacturing both locomotives and textile machinery for nearly another 20 years.
In November 1868 Rogers delivered 5 identical coal-burning 4-4-0A 4-4-0 is a type of steam locomotive. In the Whyte notation, 4-4-0 signifies that it has a two-axle truck to help guide it into curves, and two driving axles coupled by a connecting rod...
steam locomotives (assigned Nos. 116–120) to the Union Pacific RailroadThe Union Pacific Railroad , headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest and oldest operating railroad network in the United States. James R. Young is president, CEO and Chairman....
, which were subsequently placed into freight service in western Wyoming and Utah. Union Pacific No. 119The No. 119 was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive which made history as one of the two locomotives to meet at Promontory Summit during the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.No...
would gain fame on May 10, 1869, when it took part in the "Golden SpikeThe "Golden Spike" is the ceremonial final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Summit, Utah.-History:Completing the last link in...
" ceremony at PromontoryPromontory in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, is notable as the location of Promontory Summit where the United States' first Transcontinental Railroad was officially completed on May 10, 1869....
, UtahUtah is a western state of the United States. It was the 45th state admitted to the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80 percent of Utah's 2,736,424 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering around Salt Lake City. In contrast, vast expanses of the state are nearly uninhabited, making...
, to celebrate the completion of the First Transcontinental RailroadThe First Transcontinental Railroad is the popular name of the U.S. railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and Union Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs, Iowa/Omaha, Nebraska to Alameda, California...
. The unit was rebuilt in the early 1880s, and redesignated as road No. 343 in 1885. No. 119 was retired and sent to the scrapyard after nearly 35 years of service in April, 1903. A full-scale, operating replica was completed in 1979, and now sits on display at the Golden Spike National Historic SiteGolden Spike National Historic Site is a U.S. National Historic Site located at Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.It commemorates the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad where the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad met on May 10, 1869...
.
In the mid-1870s, Rogers ended production of textile machinery and began concentrating solely on locomotive manufacturing. Rogers customers of the mid-19th century continued purchasing their locomotives. The Louisville and Nashville RailroadThe Louisville and Nashville Railroad was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States.Chartered by the state of Kentucky in 1850, the L&N, as it was generally known, grew into one of the great success stories of American business...
(L&N) purchased so many locomotives from Rogers that Rogers gave the L&N a free locomotive as a thank-you bonus in 1879.
Reuben Wells was appointed as shop superintendent in 1887. Jacob Rogers, now in his late 70s, gradually passed more and more responsibility to Wells until Rogers resigned the presidency in 1893. After just over 60 years, the Rogers company would no longer be run by a member of the Rogers family. The company reorganized under its former treasurer and new president, Robert S. HughesRobert S. Hughes was the third president of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works. Before becoming president when Jacob S. Rogers resigned in 1893, he served as the company's treasurer...
, as the Rogers Locomotive Company; Jacob Rogers remained the company's principal investor. Hughes led the company until his own death in 1900. A year later, Jacob Rogers closed the Rogers Locomotive Company plant.
In 1901, the year that Jacob Rogers died and the same year that the American Locomotive CompanyThe American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO or Alco , was a builder of railroad locomotives in the United States.-Early history:...
(ALCO) was formed through the merger of eight other locomotive manufacturers, the company reopened as the Rogers Locomotive Works. Reuben Wells was again the shop superintendent. But Rogers was at a competitive disadvantage. Not enough capital investment was made to purchase new equipment or in research and development. ALCO and BaldwinThe Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American builder of railroad locomotives. It was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania originally, and later in nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania...
, the two companies that were at the time the largest locomotive manufacturers in North America, held too much of a lead in manufacturing and selling their own locomotives for Rogers to keep up. Compounding Rogers' troubles was the greater city of Paterson that had grown up around the shop. There was not any room for Rogers to expand.
1905 to present: absorbed into ALCO
Faced with stiff competition and an inability to grow its own capacity, Rogers Locomotive Works was purchased by ALCO in 1905. Rogers' last independently built locomotive was serial number 6271, an 0-6-0The term 0-6-0 is the Whyte notation for the wheel arrangement of a locomotive with six powered driving wheels , and neither leading nor trailing wheels...
T (a locomotive with three powered axles and water tanks and fuel storage mounted on its frame to take the place of a separate tender) built for W. R. Grace & Company in February 1905. ALCO continued building locomotives at the Rogers plant until 1913 when manufacturing at the plant ceased permanently. Locomotives built at the Rogers plant under ALCO are generally referred to as locomotives built by ALCO-Rogers. ALCO used the Rogers plant buildings as warehouses well into the 1920s, but eventually sold off all of the property. The original Rogers erecting shop was converted into office space and was still in use in that manner as late as 1992.
The erecting shop building has since been renamed the "Thomas Rogers Building" and is now the home of the Paterson MuseumPaterson Museum is a museum in Paterson, in Passaic County, New Jersey in the United States. Founded in 1925, it is owned and run by the city of Paterson and its mission is to preserve and display the industrial history of Paterson...
. The museum preserves and displays artifacts of Paterson's industrial history. A 2-6-0In the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a 2-6-0 has a pair of leading wheels followed by six driving wheels. This arrangement is commonly called a Mogul...
locomotive that was used in the construction of the Panama CanalThe Panama Canal is a ship canal which joins the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific ocean. One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, it had an enormous impact on shipping between the two oceans, replacing the long and treacherous route via the Drake Passage and Cape Horn...
is on display outside the museum, but it is one that was built by ALCO-Cooke (the former Cooke Locomotive and Machine WorksThe Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, located in Paterson, New Jersey, manufactured steam railroad locomotives from 1852 until it was merged with seven other manufacturers to form American Locomotive Company in 1901...
plant, also located in Paterson) and not by Rogers.
Preserved Rogers locomotives
The following locomotives (in serial number order) built by Rogers, before ALCO's acquisition of the company, have been preserved. Where multiple railroads and road numbers are listed, they are given in chronological order for the locomotives; all locations are in the United States unless noted.
| Serial number |
Wheel arrangement
(Whyte notationThe Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte and came into use in the early twentieth century encouraged by an editorial in American Engineer and Railroad Journal...
) |
Build date |
Operational owner(s) |
Disposition |
| 42 |
4-2-2 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 4-2-2 locomotive has four leading wheels, two driving wheels and two trailing wheels.
Other equivalent classifications are:
...
|
March 1843 |
Matanza Railroad #1 |
Christina Station, Havana, Cuba. |
| 631 |
4-4-0 A 4-4-0 is a type of steam locomotive. In the Whyte notation, 4-4-0 signifies that it has a two-axle truck to help guide it into curves, and two driving axles coupled by a connecting rod...
|
December 1855 |
Western and Atlantic RailroadThe Western and Atlantic Railroad is a historic railroad that operated in the southeastern United States from Atlanta, Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee.It was founded on December 21 1836 as the Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia...
#3 GeneralThe General is a type 4-4-0 steam locomotive that was the subject of the Great Locomotive Chase of the American Civil War. The locomotive is preserved at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.-...
|
Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History, Kennesaw, Georgia. |
| 812 |
4-4-0 |
January 1858 |
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad #3 |
Henry Ford MuseumThe Henry Ford, a National Historic Landmark, , in the Metro Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, USA, is the nation's "largest indoor-outdoor history museum" complex...
, Dearborn, Michigan |
| 1757 |
4-4-0 |
June 1870 |
Eten Ry #2 "Althaus" (most likely identification, possibly also Eten Ry #1 or Eten Ry #3, also built in 1870). |
Remains preserved at Eten, Peru. |
| 1814 |
0-(2)2-0T - steam car, 4 wheel, 2 drivers |
November 1870 |
Eten Ry "El Guainambi" |
Remains preserved at Eten, Peru. |
| 2454 |
2-4-2 In the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a 2-4-2 has two leading wheels, four driving wheels and two trailing wheels...
T |
July 1877 |
New Zealand RailwaysThe New Zealand Railways Department, NZR or NZGR and often known as the "Railways", was a government department charged with owning and maintaining New Zealand's railway infrastructure and operating the railway system. The Department was created in 1880 and was reformed in 1981 into the New...
KThe NZR Rogers K class was the first example of American-built locomotives to be used on New Zealand's railways. Their success coloured locomotive development in New Zealand until the end of steam.-History:...
#88 |
Plains Vintage Railway The Plains Vintage Railway is a heritage railway near Ashburton, New Zealand that operates on three kilometres of trackage that was once part of the Mount Somers Branch before it closed...
, Ashburton, New Zealand. |
| 2468 |
2-4-2T |
March 1878 |
New Zealand Railways K #92 |
Waimea Plains Rwy Trust Board, Gore, New Zealand (currently in operation by The Kingston Flyer, Kingston, Sth. Is., NZ). |
| 2470 |
2-4-2T |
March 1878 |
New Zealand Railways K #94 |
Plains Railway, Ashburton, New Zealand. |
| 2588 |
2-4-4In Whyte notation, a 2-4-4 is a steam locomotive with two unpowered leading wheels followed by four powered driving wheels and four unpowered trailing wheels.Other equivalent classifications are:...
T |
May 1880 |
Illinois Central RailroadThe Illinois Central Railroad , sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, is a railroad in the central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois with New Orleans, Louisiana and Birmingham, Alabama. A line also connected Chicago with Sioux City, Iowa...
#201Illinois Central 201 is a steam locomotive, originally owned and operated by Illinois Central Railroad. In 1949, the locomotive was operated at the Chicago Railroad Fair as part of the "Wheels A-Rolling" pageant. It is now on static display at Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois....
|
Illinois Railway MuseumThe Illinois Railway Museum is the largest railroad museum in the United States and is located in Union, Illinois, northwest of Chicago...
, Union, Illinois. |
| 3327 |
4-4-0 |
August 1883 |
Canadian Pacific RailwayThe Canadian Pacific Railway , known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. Its rail network stretches from Vancouver to Montreal, and also serves major cities in the United States such as Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York City...
#136 |
South Simcoe Railway The South Simcoe Railway is a steam heritage railway in Tottenham, Ontario, north of Toronto. Operating excursions since 1993, it is the oldest operating steam heritage railway in Ontario and features the oldest operating steam locomotive in Canada....
, Tottenham, Ontario, Canada. |
|
4-6-0 In the Whyte notation, a 4-6-0 is a railroad steam locomotive that has a two-axle leading truck followed by three driving axles. This wheel arrangement became the second-most popular configuration for new steam locomotives in America in the mid-19th century...
|
1880s |
CRR 99 (now Illinois Central 382) |
Casey Jones Village, Jackson, Tennessee. Engine modeled to look like the engine that the legendary John Luther "Casey" JonesJohn Luther "Casey" Jones was an American railroad engineer from Jackson, Tennessee who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad . On April 30, 1900, he alone was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi on a foggy and rainy night...
drove in 1900. |
| 4493 |
4-6-0 In the Whyte notation, a 4-6-0 is a railroad steam locomotive that has a two-axle leading truck followed by three driving axles. This wheel arrangement became the second-most popular configuration for new steam locomotives in America in the mid-19th century...
|
March 1891 |
Prescott and Arizona Central Railway #3, Sierra Railroad The Sierra Railroad Company, was founded in 1897 to connect the California Central Valley to the Gold Country foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Its historic western terminus has always been in Oakdale where a junction was once formed with both the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and the Southern...
#3 |
Currently owned by the State of CaliforniaCalifornia is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...
, operated at Sierra RailroadThe Sierra Railroad Company, was founded in 1897 to connect the California Central Valley to the Gold Country foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Its historic western terminus has always been in Oakdale where a junction was once formed with both the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and the Southern...
, Jamestown, California; undergoing restoration for service |
| 4788 |
4-6-0 |
November 1892 |
Burlington and Missouri Railroad #309, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as the Burlington or as the Q, the Burlington Route served a large area, including extensive trackage in the states of Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri,...
#637 |
Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois. |
| 5425 |
0-6-0 The term 0-6-0 is the Whyte notation for the wheel arrangement of a locomotive with six powered driving wheels , and neither leading nor trailing wheels...
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September 1899 |
St. Paul and Duluth Railroad The St. Paul and Duluth Railroad was reorganized from the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad in the 1870s. It was bought by the Northern Pacific in 1900...
#74, Northern Pacific #924 |
Northwest Railway MuseumThe Northwest Railway Museum is a railroad museum in Snoqualmie, Washington.The museum was founded in 1957 as the Puget Sound Railway Historical Association and took its current name in September 1999...
, Snoqualmie, Washington. |
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4-6-0 |
August 1900 |
Mobile and Ohio RailroadThe Mobile and Ohio Railroad was a railroad in the Southern U.S. The M&O was chartered in January and February 1848 by the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It was planned to span the distance between the seaport of Mobile, Alabama and the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois...
#187, Columbus and Greenville RailwayThere have been two uses of Columbus and Greenville Railway, both for the same rail line.The first Columbus and Greenville Railway was formed by the sale of the Southern Railway operated Southern Railway in Mississippi, to local interests...
#178 |
Propst Park, ColumbusColumbus is a city in Lowndes County, Mississippi, United States on the Tombigbee River. It is approximately northeast of Jackson, north of Meridian, south of Tupelo, 60 Miles Northwest of Tuscaloosa, AL, and west of Birmingham, AL . The population was 25,944 at the 2000 census...
, MississippiMississippi is a state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi . The state is heavily forested outside of the...
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2-8-0 In the Whyte notation, a 2-8-0 is a railroad steam locomotive that has a single-axle leading truck followed by four powered driving axles. In the US, this wheel arrangement is commonly called a Consolidation.Other equivalent classifications are:
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August 1902 |
Great Northern Railway #1147 |
North Central Washington Museum, Wenatchee, Washington. |
| 6178 |
2-8-0 |
June 1904 |
Illinois Central Railroad #764 |
Museum of Transportation The Museum of Transportation of the St. Louis County, Missouri, Parks Department is a museum located in the Greater St. Louis area. It was first founded in 1944 by a group of individuals dedicated to preserving the past and has a wide variety of vehicles from American history...
, Kirkwood, Missouri. |
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4-6-2Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a 4-6-2 locomotive has four leading wheels , six coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels . These locomotives are also known as Pacifics...
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January 1905 |
Louisville and Nashville RailroadThe Louisville and Nashville Railroad was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States.Chartered by the state of Kentucky in 1850, the L&N, as it was generally known, grew into one of the great success stories of American business...
#152The L & N Steam Locomotive No. 152 is a historic 4-6-2 Pacific Class locomotive on the National Register of Historic Places, currently at the Kentucky Railway Museum at New Haven, Kentucky, in southernmost Nelson County, Kentucky. It is the oldest known remaining 4-6-2 Pacific to exist...
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Kentucky Railway MuseumThe Kentucky Railway Museum, located in New Haven, Kentucky, United States, is a non-profit railroad museum dedicated to educating the public regarding the history and heritage of Kentucky's railroads and the people who built them. Originally created in 1954 in Louisville, Kentucky, the museum is...
, New Haven, Kentucky. |
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0-6-0 |
January 1905 |
Atlanta and West Point Railroad #4, Western Railway of Alabama The Western Railway of Alabama was created as the Western Railroad of Alabama by the owners of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad in 1860. It was built to further the M&WP's development West from Montgomery, Alabama to Selma, Alabama. When the line was finally constructed in 1870, the M&WP...
#104 |
Georgia RR Depot, Conyers, Georgia. |
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