US Navy 0-6-0T No. 4 Previous Next After the Revolutionary War, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was established on the bank of the East River in New York City. At the yard’s peak during World War II, 75,000 workers helped to repair numerous Atlantic Fleet ships while building such famous battleships as the USS North Carolina, …
Buffalo Creek & Gauley 2-8-0 No. 13 Previous Next Engine No.13 began life in 1920 at the Brooks Works of the American Locomotive Company as 2-8-0 No.6 built for Kelly’s Creek & Northwestern Railroad, a remote lumber hauling line deep in the mountains of West Virginia (see header image). After an unremarkable KC&NW career, No.6 …
Southern Wood Preserving Co. 0-4-0T No. 3 Previous Next Between major locomotive orders, the American Locomotive Company occasionally built small “stock” locomotives, knowing that such generic engines were typically in-demand and would not sit unsold for very long. Such was the case with 0-4-0T No.3, built in January 1926 at ALCO’s Schenectady Works in New …
Sturm & Dillard 0-6-0 No. 105 Previous Next Number 105, a small 0-6-0 switch engine, was constructed by Baldwin in January 1917 as No.51, one of an order of four built for John Marsh Inc. Railroad Contractors. Records indicate that by December 1923 No.51 had been sold to Birmingham Rail and Locomotive, a dealer who …
Morehead & North Fork 0-6-0 No. 12 Previous Next In September 1905, the American Locomotive Company’s Pittsburg (no “h”, thank you) Works constructed A-7 class 0-6-0 No.1643 for the Southern Railway. After over four decades of working in relative obscurity shuffling cars for the Southern, the engine was retired and parked in the scrap line. …
