Locomotive Builders

Steam Locomotive Manufacturing in Michigan

  • Cadillac City Iron Works.  Built Shay locomotives in late 1870's and early 1880's.  [SMcD]

  • Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railroad shops at Ionia [CB]

  • Detroit Locomotive Works (1850's).  Built locomotives for the Michigan Central.  [Detroit Free Press, 5/27/1855, 11/11/1855, 8/12/1857 in the index at theBurton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library][HWC]

  • Grand Rapids & Indiana shops at Grand Rapids [CB]

  • Michigan Central Railroad.  [HWC]

  • Michigan Iron Works at Cadillac (made 7-8 locomotives including the Henderson Shay) [SMcD}

  • Michigan Iron Works at Grand Rapids (made 4 chain driven geared locomotives in 1878) [CB]

Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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