How many railroads built there own steam locomotives?

[AltonFan]

Chicago & Alton built a 4-4-0 and a fleet of 0-6-0s (memory fuzzy: 12 or 14) at their Bloomington, Illinois shops toward the end of the 19th Century.

[Road Fan]

Thanks for the input...I would imagine that some tests were pretty spectacular.

 

Road Fan

[henry6]

One thing not mentioned in these posts: most railroads would have apprentice locomotive shop workers build a scale model steamer as a learning activity.  They may not have built full scale loco's but they learned from the models!

[Trainmaster.Curt]

Canadian Pacific also built many steam loco's at Angus and Dolormier shops back in the day. My favourite one is the No.136 4-4-0 built in 1886 at Dolormier Shops in Montreal. It still survives at the South Simcoe Railway in Tottenham Ontario

[henry6]

That locomotive is so little, so ugly!   I want it.

[scottychaos]

In the North-East: 

Lehigh Valley

Erie

D&H

New York Central

PRR

Reading

 

Pretty much any Class-1 that existed before 1900 probably built some of their own locomotives in their home shops. 

Scot

[Trainmaster.Curt]

That little locomotive is a survivor, and a legacy of the pioneer days of CPR history, but i guess your from the states. Check http://pdcrailway.com to see another old 1882 4-4-0 still running

[Wild Bill's Grandkid]

quartering machine

Does anyone know of the 813 wreck? It killed Bill Hugan the engineer, I knew the fireman, he was hurt badly by being sqirtted out of the side window by the mud as the engine slid along on its side in the muddy ditch. The frame was bent and twisted along with much other damage, it was totaled but with the war going on the company was forced to put it back together.  Much like a wrecked car it never was the same.

We are approaching the 65th anniversary of the wreck of the 813. (Apr. 8, 1944). My grandfather was the CBRR Engineer, William E. (Bill) Hugon. I never knew him as this tragedy occured before I was born. I do know that the only consolation to this wreck was that he died doing what he absolutely loved...driving an engine. If there are any people out there who did know him, I would love to hear from you.

 

 

[quartering machine]

Sorry for the name misspell, I was a machinist understudy to Ham "John Ham" who was the lead machinist on 815 to 819. He and the others T.D. Davis, Ike Davison, Jerky Stone & Joe McCollough M.E. Hall would talk of the old days and enevitably the troubled 813 would come up. It would be my guess everyone is dead by now or at least not in the condition to carry on a conversation. I can't remember the 813 firemans name but I remember that they made him go back to work before he was well. He was very weak but that was before the protection of the union.

 Good luck on finding information, Russell 

 

[tim o'm]

I hope I am not repeating anyone in this, but the Cumberland & Pennsylvania RR built their own steam locomotives in Mount Savage, MD. I'm told the buildings still stand. They never bought any diesel locomotives. A portion of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad right of way is C&Pa, including the Frostburg station.