Nineteen thirty-six had been a very good year at the Lima Locomotive Works. In its review of the year past on New Year’s Day 1937 the Lima News judged the plant’s resurgence second in importance only ...

The Service Department Records document the activity of the service and sales department of Lima Locomotive Works. Lima Locomotive Works manufactured Shay Locomotives in Lima, Ohio, from 1879 to 1980 ...

The Shay locomotive pulled from a quarry in the 900 block of East North Street in 1953 is shown being refurbished in this photo from the Allen County Historical Society. Courtesy of Allen County ...

More than almost any other, the business of making locomotives is either a feast or a famine. Lima Locomotive Co., third largest in the U. S., feasted in 1937 when it made 101 locomotives at a profit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a 1954 view from the running board of Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshire-type No. 703, standing in the siding at New Douglas, ...

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