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The Brooks Locomotive Works manufactured steam railroad locomotives and freight cars from 1869 through its merger into the American Locomotive Company until 1934.
When the New York and Erie Railroad (NY&E) relocated its shops facilities from Dunkirk, New York, to Buffalo in 1869, Dunkirk lost its largest employer. Coming to the city's rescue was Horatio G. Brooks (1828–1887), the former chief engineer of the NY&E who was at the controls of the first train into Dunkirk in 1851. In 1869, Brooks leased the Dunkirk shops facility from the NY&E and formed the Brooks Locomotive Works. The new company officially opened on November 11, 1869. The company's first steam locomotive is completed the following month as part of an order for the NY&E, the company's first customer.
Within a couple of years of its opening, Brooks was producing as many as seven new locomotives per month, compared to one per month while the facility was controlled by the NY&E. Brooks built locomotives for nearly all of the major railroads of the time, producing 37 new locomotives in its first year and 43 new locomotives in its second year of operations.
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and stationary steam engines.
A locomotive has no payload capacity of its own, and its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. In contrast, some trains have self-propelled payload-carrying vehicles. These are not normally considered locomotives, and may be referred to as multiple units, motor coaches or railcars. The use of these self-propelled vehicles is increasingly common for passenger trains, but rare for freight (see CargoSprinter). Vehicles which provide motive power to haul an unpowered train, but are not generally considered locomotives because they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
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Train Coupling Load 2-8-0 Live Steam From Wikipedia.............The company was created in 1901 from the merger of several smaller locomotive manufacturers: * Brooks Locomotive Works in Dunkirk, NY * Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works in Paterson, NJ * Dickson Manufacturing Company in Scranton, PA * Manchester Locomotive Works in Manchester, NH * Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works in Pittsburgh, PA * Rhode Island Locomotive Works in Providence, RI * Richmond Locomotive Works in Richmond, VA * Schenectady Locomotive Works in Schenectady, NY The new company was headquartered in Schenectady and eventually closed all the other locomotive manufacturing plants, except for the main plants in Schenectady, NY and Montreal, Que. 1904 saw the purchase ...
The Brooks Locomotive Works manufactured steam railroad locomotives and freight cars from 1869 through its merger into the American Locomotive Company until 1934. ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- About the author(s): Unknown License: Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication (CC0) ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video
The building in the backround is the old Brooks Locomotive Works assembly plant. the 2 peaks held the wheels of the 250 ton crane that transported the locomotives down the assembly line CSX Local Yard Train Picking Up A Boxcar. This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
This goes to show that a little engine can make a lot of noise! SOO 353 is an 0-6-0 switch engine, built in August 1920, at the Brooks Works of American Locomotive Company for the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad, commonly known as the SOO LINE. Classified as a B-4 switch engine, the locomotive was equipped with power reverse, Walschaerts valve motion, piston valves, superheaters, and a 5000 gallon tender. It has two whistles, the larger one is a 6 chime and the smaller one is a 3 chime. The locomotive proper weighs 150,000 pounds, and nearly a quarter of a million pounds when filled with coal and water. The two pistons develop 31,200 pounds of starting tractive effort. The boiler operates at 180 PSI. As SOO 353 the locomotive assembled trains in marshaling yards in the ...
In the video, you can see the steam Engine No. 73, a 2-8-2 Mikado type Baldwin Locomotive built in 1947, getting prepped to pull cars up the mountain. The steam locomotive was custom built for White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad. Before 73 comes into view, you can also see the WP&YR;'s first engine, #52 (originally #2). A 2-6-0 was built by Brooks Locomotive Works in 1881 for the Utah & Northern Railroad; sold in 1890 to Columbia & Puget Sound; and sold again in 1898 to the WP&YR.;
On June 30, 2012 the Dunkirk Historical Society hosted a tour of Dunkirk, NY Historic Worship Sites. This re-enactment features the former Harry Swyers, general manager of Brooks Locomotive Works and Captain Patrick Barrett a hero and casualty of the Civil War. Both were parishioners of the former St. Mary's Church, now St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church.
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Georgetown Loop Railroads #111 return to service after the locomotive sat for nearly 50 years in disrepair and display at many other locations. She was built by Baldwin Locomotive works in Philadelphia in 1926, ordered by the IRCA (International Railways of Central America) to haul Sugar cane, Coffee and Bananas . 111 is a 2-8-0 Consolidation outside frame locomotive weighing in at roughly 85 tons burning fuel oil. She sat in the dead line by sometime in the 1950's with her know sisters 40 and 44 which operated at the Georgetown Loop Railroad from 1984 on to 2004. 111 was Purchased by Don Drawer sometime in 1960 for his dream railroad know as the Sundown & Southern Railroad Company, but that dream was never realized and all equipment was auctioned off in 2002, 111 being purchased by the T...
LEGO 4-0-0 General Haupt Steam Locomotive MOC by Joshua Brooks, displayed at Brick Fair VA 2015. A Civil War steam engine, named after General Herman Haupt, the man in charge of rebuilding the captured railroads.
The Brooks Locomotive Works manufactured steam railroad locomotives and freight cars from 1869 through its merger into the American Locomotive Company until 1934. ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- About the author(s): Unknown License: Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication (CC0) ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video
The building in the backround is the old Brooks Locomotive Works assembly plant. the 2 peaks held the wheels of the 250 ton crane that transported the locomotives down the assembly line CSX Local Yard Train Picking Up A Boxcar. This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
On June 30, 2012 the Dunkirk Historical Society hosted a tour of Dunkirk, NY Historic Worship Sites. This re-enactment features the former Harry Swyers, general manager of Brooks Locomotive Works and Captain Patrick Barrett a hero and casualty of the Civil War. Both were parishioners of the former St. Mary's Church, now St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church.
In the video, you can see the steam Engine No. 73, a 2-8-2 Mikado type Baldwin Locomotive built in 1947, getting prepped to pull cars up the mountain. The steam locomotive was custom built for White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad. Before 73 comes into view, you can also see the WP&YR;'s first engine, #52 (originally #2). A 2-6-0 was built by Brooks Locomotive Works in 1881 for the Utah & Northern Railroad; sold in 1890 to Columbia & Puget Sound; and sold again in 1898 to the WP&YR.;
At 2073ft above sea level and several miles of 1 in 40 (2.5%) grades in either direction, Ardglen at the top of the Liverpool Range is one of the best locations in Australia to see diesel locomotives hard at work as they struggle to lift long and heavy trains of coal, containers or grain over the summit. Up coal trains are usually banked from Willow Tree to Ardglen, and this is the last location in Australia where you can witness traditional bankers on the rear of a train. This video features a number of trains filmed over several trips to Ardglen between 2009 and 2012 plus a "cab ride" from The Rail Motor Society's CPH3 climbing through the loop. Also included are shots of 80 class Alcos and 81 or 82 class EMD locos banking coal trains. While these clips have been featured in other vid...
The Iron Range & Huron Bay Railroad is a defunct railroad constructed to haul iron ore in Michigan's Upper Peninsula during the 1890s. Financial and engineering problems prevented the railroad's operation; it remains an unusual example of a railroad which was completed but never used. Rich iron ore deposits were first discovered in the Upper Peninsula in the 1840s, and remain a significant source of wealth for the state. By the 1890s Michigan was the largest supplier of iron ore in the United States. Railroads would haul ore from the mines to great ore docks on the Great Lakes in places such as Escanaba and Marquette, where it would be loaded on ore freighters and transported to the rest of the country. The Huron Mountains west of Marquette were known to be rich in ore deposits, parti...
On Friday 7 March 2014, Lachlan Valley Railway operated a train from Goulburn to Junee on the New South Wales main southern line to transfer locomotives and carriages south for the QUBE Rhythm n Rail festival shuttles over the following weekend. The Powerhouse Museum's steam locomotive 3265 led the impressive 13 car train, assisted by LVR vintage Clyde/EMD diesel electric locomotives 4204, 4903 and 4906. The first scene shows the train climbing over the summit at Cullerin, which at 2396ft above sea level is the highest point on the main southern line. The train then drops downgrade under the bottom bridge on the Cullerin range before passing through Gunning station. After stopping at Yass Junction, the train is seen passing over the stone viaduct south of the station before speeding aro...
Flipping the roles of our first episode, Brook Jensen interviews Liam Gallagher about his work on composing and sound work on projects for both Invisible but Real Locomotive and Brwarner Studios. Ratkiller: http://ratkillerthegame.weebly.com/ Invisible but Real Locomotive: https://twitter.com/SeeThroughTrain Brwarner Studios: http://studio.brwarner.net/ Brook Warner Jensen: Creative Lead, Writer, Developer Liam Gallagher: Composer, Sound Designer
Episode 2 starts to looks at the main frames of Brookes and the work restoring all aspects of the frames, wheels and motion. As part of a successful Heritage Lottery Fund bid, the Middleton Railway has embarked on a project to restore to working order Brookes No. 1 (Hunslet 2387 of 1941). This locomotive has seen service on the Middleton Railway in the last decade as both a ‘Thomas’ and in its authentic guise as a saddle tank. This locomotive forms an important part of the Leeds locomotive building story and our history, having been built less than a mile from the railway. Furthermore, it is the only surviving locomotive of its class (ie with 14" diameter cylinders), although there are a number of survivors of the larger versions (ie with 15", 16" or 18" diameter cylinders). We hope to s...
Episode 3 looks at the work on the Cylinders, pistons and other fittings being restored or manufactured in house as new replacements. The precise work setting the axles and hornguides for later rewheeling begins. As part of a successful Heritage Lottery Fund bid, the Middleton Railway has embarked on a project to restore to working order Brookes No. 1 (Hunslet 2387 of 1941). This locomotive has seen service on the Middleton Railway in the last decade as both a ‘Thomas’ and in its authentic guise as a saddle tank. This locomotive forms an important part of the Leeds locomotive building story and our history, having been built less than a mile from the railway. Furthermore, it is the only surviving locomotive of its class (ie with 14" diameter cylinders), although there are a number of sur...